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Arrgghhh, another one of those theatrical events I need a time machine to go back for. I was lucky enough to see him on Broadway in Miss Saigon, and jeez but he was tremendous. I've literally never seen him in anything that I wasn't floored by his performance, and he's one of only a very small...

I actually love 'em all, but my three major faves are Brazil, Time Bandits and, maybe just because it's been so maligned, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen--a film that's got its share of flaws, but I still find seriously fun (also, I love me some Jonathan Pryce, so that's another major...

Good for Terry! I hope he makes a well-deserved comeback with this film; his unique contributions to cinema have been pretty shamefully neglected of late, in the wake of negative reviews (some of them really unjust) of a number of his latter-day works.

Thanks! Been away from the computer awhile myself, and not much catch-up time recently. But this one looks like a must read just from the title, lol. EDIT: Just read this and thoroughly enjoyed it, Wright sounds a feisty broad alright. Which makes it a pity that she's never seen the...

Organized religions nearly always seem to go off the rails at some point and produce extremist factions. It seems to be a concomitant, almost, of the mindset that goes in for organized religious practice in the first place. As Chainsaw wisely noted, this phenomenon is certainly not exclusive to...

The series just proved that Casablanca: The Classic Movie wouldn't have been a classic movie without the magic of that particular conjunction of cast members. Without them, you end up with something very much like Casablanca: The Not So Classic Television Series. Much as I like Hector Elizondo...

Didn't Dick van Dyke say he was going to be in this? It'll go the current trend of trying to make the story more 'dark', which will play as simply silly--like trying to make a marshmallow cream puff more 'dark'. The only improvements I could see coming of this would be to make Poppins truer to...

Can't these younguns come up with their very own crap to cringe over thirty years from now? Do they have to keep recycling ours?

I'm just surprised the roof didn't fall in on him.

I think Mariska is the only original cast member remaining. I've always loved Belzer (ever read any of his wack conspiracy books? They're great), and I warmed up to T a lot during the run of the show; wasn't terribly impressed by him as an actor at first, but I think he really grew into the...

The original was razor-sharp, and retains a keen edge today--maybe more so than ever. It isn't just British political malfeasance it reflects so brutally, and hilariously. The chief problem with the US version is that, at this point, it's just going on too bloody long; the very lethalness of the...

I'd have given a lot to have been in Britain when this originally aired; the US version is pretty decent--Spacey is watchable in darn near anything--but it lacks the edge and immediacy of the original. It also lacks the divine Ian Richardson, so the remake had a major deficit going against it...

Dearly adore the UK original, nobody can better it. With all due respect, Francis Urquhart would also mop the floor with Frank Underwood and Co., and never turn a hair.

Even though the stars still got a fair share of assistance with their looks, it was more about real loveliness, not manufactured. And I certainly prefer the female aesthetic of that era to the 'twig with balloons' variety of today.

It had Jim Broadbent in the cast. God knows how he was lured into this stinker, but that fact alone got me to watch it.

Ant-mac, I admire the reasoned response--and I'm really sorry to have had any part in something that led up to the need for this. All I can say is thanks, and a strong wish that it'll never have to be repeated. I hope to continue to conduct myself in a way that won't make that necessary at any...

Janine, thanks--and my deepest personal apologies for having had any part in what I can see is a very real problem for you. I find Hux's behavior troubling, to put it bluntly. I came onto a light thread with what, to me anyway, was a fairly innocuous post, only to have it fastened on like a...

Try the Bond 25: News & Speculation thread for one, where you argued with several regulars including ant-mac, and then took on DeJohnnie , who gave you repeated warnings before you dropped the heavy weather over calling any and all a 'racist' who didn't agree with the notion that Idris Elba...

Is there anyone who doesn't sound that way to you? Must make you one hella hard guy to joke around with. As a number of your postings around the place would seem to indicate. Peace out, dude, as the kool kids say. Life is too short to go through it with clenched hair.

I like Billy Shakes' idea about there being 'more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy'. Is that scientific method? Hell no, and I have no desire to conflate poetry with scientific methodology either.