Newmark's Door

Off the Pretty in Pink soundtrack, the Psychedelic Furs. (I watched the movie recently. It was meh. But the song is good.)

Agrees with my intuition. (YouTube video.)

Scorsese, Tarantino, Spielberg, and more.

If you think you saw a 1994 movie named Shazaam, you, like some other folks, are subject to the Mandela Effect.

More on the interesting Mandela Effect.

Funny story.

Combining "greatest" lists from critics, audiences, and filmmakers.

Hands down the most unusual line readings I've ever heard.

A key to how he does it.

My nominee for his best: a line just on the border of corny becomes something else.

Heat is another one of my very favorite movies.

I just watched Master and Commander yet again--it's free (with ads) on YouTube--and I greatly enjoyed it yet again. It's on my all-time top ten list. Here's a 25-minute video on what makes it so great. Here's a nearly 40-minute video on just how astonishingly historically accurate the film is. Finally, here's the late, great Roger Ebert's favorable review.

I agree wholeheartedly with this commentary. Yes, it is the "ultimate cult classic". Yes, it is "a truly strange movie at the Hollywood studio level". Yes, "It’s an easy movie to get addicted to, because, at the time, there was nothing else remotely like it." And yes, "It’s been a pleasure seeing the cult following of 'Buckaroo Banzai' grow over the decades."

Source of such all-time lines as "No matter where you go, there you are." and the great "Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy!"

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

(And if you do so and after the initial surprise wears off you want to know more, I recommend the Buckaroo Banzai FAQ 5.0. And here's two minutes of "Quentin Tarantino on Buckaroo Banzai" 4.5 minutes of "John Lithgow Talks Buckaroo Banzai," and 7 minutes of "Peter Weller [the star of the movie] on Buckaroo Banzai".)