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New Minor Nitpick! You have a villain of questionable ethnic background to be a dictator president and you don't cast Rade Šerbedžija? (A gentle reminder everything is better with Rade Šerbedžija) James

My only real nitpicking is the charactetization of Metamorpho and we didn't get a "Great Caesar's Ghost!" James

Superman - This was exactly what it needed to be, a fun comic book story brought to life. It isn't high art. What it ends up being is a great time at the cinema. It delivers on all fronts. Nicholas Hoult just might be the most despicable, repugnant version of Lex Luthor we've ever had. James Gunn even has little nods to Donner, including Lex doing yet another real estate scheme! The music cues did their job in bringing tears to my eyes. Just, go see it if you love a good popcorn movie. Go see it if you want to have fun. Most importantly, go see it if you love Superman! James

So who is Teijo Khan in this new Solo "Paul Jones" SikoabArmy? James

I like to think in Germany they just call it a suplex James

So my buddy Breann took me out fto dinner for a very belated birthday present. Went to Texas De Brazil in Ann Arbor. When she arrives to pick me up there is a copy of the Critetion 4K of Pink Flamingos in the front seat. I get all giddy and ask "Is this for me?" It was! I filled her in on the recent discussion on this very board and smirked before she replied "Then it must have been fated. Now can you put the damn case down so we can pig put at a Brazilliann Steakhouse?" Best belated Birthday ever! James

Douglas himself rrefers to Fatal Attraction, Disclosure and Basic Instinct as "My sex trilogy" in a few interviews, which makes them sound far more adult content than they actually are. One of them just needs Nina Hartley to liven it up James

Christ, the Robert Shaw "Going Out On Open Water Sucks" trilogy is diminishing returns with each film. Am I to assume you will complete the trifecta with Orca? James

The fans had been invested the Jones/Valiant feud for like 3 years. Every week something was happening in that feud. It had to come to sn end. Jimmy losing his hair was a shock so you know they'd have to really end it at Starrcade James

I think the failure of Garvin's reign was waiting until October to give him the belt. It would've served better him winning at the end of August James

If only Verne Troyer were still alive! James

Tyler Perry's Akira is something I hadn't contemplated until now. Thanks for nuthin Matt! James

If a midget in a tuxedo with a martini glass shows up at Arena Mexico, I'm blaming you Curt! James

St. Ives - There are movies I go out of my way to see simply because the cast is intriguing. If the lead happens to be Charles Bronsson, then it is a movie I simply MUST watch it! The strength of any Charles Bronson movie is really based on how engaged Bronson is in it. Need example: Bronson was engaged onthe original Death Wish but less so in the sequels, especially as the series limped along after DW2. He's really engaged in Assassination, one of his last films, mostly because he and his actual wife, Jill Ireland, get to act opposite each other and they just crackle with electricity together despite the overall movie being just above "Ok". This is one of those Bronson movies where he seems really engag3d. He's working opposite Jacqueline Bissett, Maximilian Schell and a rather spry John Housemam. My lord, Houseman looks middle-aged here, which is odd because this is 5 years AFTER the movie adaptation of The Paper Chase and the same year as the TV series. Bronson is Charles St. Ives, retired cop turned crime reporter/novelist is hired by Abner Procane to retrieve journals that had been stolen from the latter's home safe. St. Ives gets the job done but pages are kissing, pages that outline the plans for a heist. Well now St. Ives is interested and things go from there! Did I mention the cast? It goes beyond the principles as a gaggle of "Hey! That guy!" Actors show up, not the of which are Jeff Goldblum and Robert Engl7nd as 2 hoods! But that's where the intrigue stops because the movie never takes off part the initial set-up. It's not a bad movie, just uninteresting one past it's set-up. It really is disappointing because our man Charles seems to legit interested and trying in this movie. It's like someone watched a good heist movie and thought "I can write a heist movie too!" and then wrote the dullest heist movie ever! It really is a shame, because with this lead and this cast, I shouldn't be wanting this thing to get on with it already, yet here I am writing this review. Not even an interested Charles Bronson can make this movie worth, save for a die hard Charles Bronson completist. James

So tbis morning, Sandy is sitting there in her tablet while I'm watching Hokuto No Ken clips on my phone. Sandy bounds over to me just as Kenshiro launches in to the 100 Crack Fist. Tbis leads to Sandy laughing hysterically followed by her going "ATATATATATATATATA... WATA!" for like 3 minutes. She finally stops ends it all with an "Omae wa mou shindeiru..." and I go from thinking she's adorable to thinking I might need to sleep with one eye open from now on. Tbis isn't the first time she's animeattacked me, as about 2 years ago she smashed an inflatable Thor hammer over my head and shrieked "GOLDION CUSHER!" 100% MY KID! James

The Cruise version of Reacher just didn't do it fir me. Richson's "Sherlock Holmes in the body of Jason Voorhees" approach is so very entertaining James

Pink Flamingos was lent to me by a member of the Marvel Bullpen. I'd never even heard of John Waters at that point so when I was told, bluntly, that I had to watch it, I took this person at his word. I was still living at home at this point and my gut told me I couldn't watch this movie in the living room. I was right James

Oh you dear, sweet child... James

Man, I love Krush Groove! There is nothing about that movie not to love! James

NEW GARO SERIES! Amemiya is directing writing! GARO/TAIGA https://youtu.be/_1sA8o3ROqM?si=yFrAo7PTFHNDfTSW James

.The Intern - This a pretty sweet date movie without a romance storythread. This is a literal De Niro movie and it's charming in it's own way. Anne Hathaway is Anne Hathaway so she's solid. Strong supporting cast and the late, great Linda Lavin giving De Niro the finger make for a few laughs. I imagine an alternate world where The Intern being a starring vehicle for Jason Statham. In that movie, Statham is the Intern for Anne Hathaway. Statham discovers that Anne's husband is cheating on her (an actual subplot of the real movie) and then Statham secretly goes to her brownstone, beats the crap outta of the husband. After the assaulting the husband asks "Who are you?" Camera zooms on Statham who then says barely whisper "I'm The Intern!" Roll credits! The actual movie is nice, inoffensive and worth watching in a "it's a weekday afternoon and it's raining" kinda way. James

If said team-up involves Diana and Steve punching a lot of Nazis then sign me up! James

3Something that always bothered me about The MOD Squad as a gimmick. Why have them be 2 white cops and not a white cop, a black cop and a blonde as the manager? James

It is a shame they killed off Dudley in L.A. Confidential the movie because he survived in the book and the next book White Jazz, deals with Exley finally taking Dudley down. James

I'll cede you Jackie Brown, but Boogie Nights is a movie that my view on it changes with each viewing. One would think a movie featuring Nina Hartley would get my full throated support. I've never seen The Apostle but now must add it to the "well now I gotta watch it" list. James