Don Irvine

A question that until now I've never thought to ask: What movies do you watch with your young 'un?

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse : inside the collapse of Venezuela

A rare Sidney Lumet dud

I'm afraid that I'm with Kael on this one; easy targets and hot air: "The screen seems to be plastered with bumper stickers."
I wish Criterion would give us The Hospital

Bet she falls out a window, though

YouTube video by Bil Carter For Old Times' Sake

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Putin' on the Ritz

More like a Hero

I was a very good pro film critic, and am absolutely sure I would have been completely chewed up by the machine if I'd ever tried to have anything to do with the production of a Hollywood movie

Although... what team would he cheer for -- serious question. I mean, he hates everybody.

He Always Got Lucky With Her

"slide"

"But seriously, folks..."

The Sweet Smell of Success (or Lawrence of Arabia) Let a playwright have a pass over your script)
Drifting Clouds (Characters should get what they need even if in real life they couldn't)
September (Intellectuals do not lead cinematic lives)

I'll take a crack:
Spartan (You can remove parts of a script like Jenga, and the movie will still stand)
Do the Right Thing (Let the actors improvise)
The Dekalog (With enough good characters the story takes care of itself)
Legally Blonde, Spanish version (All comedy plays better in Spanish)

I'd be interested to know what you learned from Written on the Wind -- aside from how to make a great opening title sequence

And...

Leave us not forget:

I am running scared

Either cut (I prefer the long one) has one of the great casts ever assembled

I live in Victoria, and I've seen ONE.
I'm not sure if this says anything about Victoria, except what everything you knew already: If you want action, go somewhere else

Former Canadiens star goaltender Ken Dryden dies of cancer at age 78 | CBC Sports Ken Dryden, the Hall of Fame goaltender whose long resume in and out of hockey included six Stanley Cup victories and helping backstop Canada's generation-defining victory at the 1972 Summit Series, d...

What...? He's gone? 😥

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Quakers could just give them sandwiches

With a little luck, this could become a protest fad: Throw a sandwich at ICE!

There's a lesson from the 60's that a lot of people who politically came of age in the 80s have not learned: Just *informing* people is not enough; the truth will set people free only if you're actually down there in the trenches with them making it so

Just passin' by

The day I'm unable to turn off motion smoothing is the day I ask for MAID

The Independent's characterization of the second Trump presidency as a feature-length episode of 'The Apprentice' is prescient--I mean, it's what he knows how to do