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To each their own, but that sounds like the musical equivalent of fan fiction. As a lifelong Beatles fan I've always been amused by the notion that the Beatles had a singular "sound," and I'm glad they chose simply not to mimic their earlier work. The Beatles, and pop music as a result, evolved...

For anyone else as obsessed with this film as I am, I was curious about the scene in the film where George Munn (Haas) has persuaded Jack Conrad (Pitt) to appear in an all-star musical and perform Singin' in the Rain only to discover it was a real MGM film, Hollywood Revue of 1929. I found a...

Part of my personal calculus on what makes a great movie is a sense that the filmmakers got away with something. I find it worth celebrating, particularly in this age of IP driven franchise entertainment, when a filmmaker manages to make a film that by all accounts had no business being made...

I've been a fan since 1977, and this has been a problem for the franchise at least as far back as Anakin's slaughter of the sand people in AOTC, if not longer. It is very difficult to reconcile Vader's slaughter of innocents with the redemption I've never quite believed he earned in ROTJ...

Having now compared the 4K UHD discs to the 4K iTunes transfers, I find them significantly different. To my eyes the reds are far too oversaturated in the iTunes transfers. In the scene in Sicily where Michael is taking to Apollonia's father, on the iTunes transfer the older man's face is a...

Thank you, Mr. Harris. That is my hope, but I am awaiting the arrival of these discs with a good deal more skepticism than before. And as always thank for for sharing all of your insights and knowledge with this community.

I'm glad your experience was more positive than mine. If you're indulge me for a moment, these films are incredibly important to me. When I was quite young my parents, who were public school teachers, often had one of their colleagues, an art teacher, over to our house. One night the three of...

I am reserving judgement until I receive my 4K UHD set, which should arrive today, but I did see the films had been updated to 4K in my iTunes library and sampled them last night. I was profoundly disappointed. The skin tones appear oversaturated and can only be described as "tomato red." I am...

I didn't realize this was coming until I stumbled on this thread, and I'm grateful that I did. While I'll concede these are merely passable transfers, the previous releases of some of these films are terrible, early DVD transfers. To me $50 for 8 Woody Allen films that look much better than any...

I thought this was fantastic, with two minor quibbles. The flashbacks seemed clumsy. I understand why they felt the need to do this but they disrupted the story for me. My only other complaint, I wish they had done an entire 4th season. I wanted to see more of everyone. As it stands it was a...

While it is true that the show has heaped abuse on its characters, it has also saved its most masochistic endings for the characters who have been the most unrepentantly awful, most notably Joffrey and Ramsay. I don't have any real sense of who will end up on the throne on the end but I can't...

I wasn't intentionally avoiding his point. To be clear the reaction would be different, sure. But I think we also both know why the reaction would be different and the history and context that would inform the ensuing controversy. Speaking as a white male over 40, I can't say I am at all...

Historically, female characters have been so under-represented in film, and in fiction in general, that there was actually a system designed to determine whether a story had a strong female character (see: Bechdel test). One could argue, persuasively in my opinion, that no white male actor...

I saw this last night. Went into it with zero expectations and almost no knowledge of the character's backstory. I loved it and felt that it was another great entry in the MCU. For me these films are all so intertwined and self-referential that they've become harder to weigh as individual...

As I see it, Yoda is a religious leader in political exile, much like the Dali Llama. Luke is in self-imposed exile because of a crisis of faith. And to invoke Obi-Wan, from a certain point of view, Luke is right. The Jedi were arrogant elitists and their blindness to what was happening...

I didn't see it as a weakness at all though. I liked the efficiency with which Johnson removed Snoke from the story, so the third film can concentrate on Kylo Ren as a villain in his own right. In this sense he was more a plot device than a character, which is why his lack of backstory didn't...

Snoke existed as a character in The Force Awakens, and my criticisms about his random introduction as a thinly veiled Palpatine retread, much like the countless other retreads JJ Abrams introduced in TFA—apply to his appearance there. I don't think Johnson can be held accountable for not...

While I wasn't invested enough in Snoke to care about his backstory, to me this is more of a failing of The Force Awakens than The Last Jedi. The First Order rising from the ashes of the Empire makes sense, but Snoke is clearly both knowledgable in the Force and powerful. As we know from the...

First generation Star Wars fan here. These movies have been imbedded in my psyche since the age of five when I first saw Star Wars 1977. And as such, they're nearly impossible to review or comment on objectively as films. I was not expecting to love The Last Jedi. While I enjoyed Rogue One a...

CBS owns Twin Peaks, not Lynch and Frost. It's part of the reason the show went to Showtime, a CBS property. Regardless, I am happy that David Nevins took a huge risk on something so challenging, especially after reading the script and knowing the outcome, as well as having to bring Lynch back...

When the Force Awakens came out, I remember reading that Harrison Ford agreed to play Han Solo again only on the contingency that he would star in the next Indiana Jones film. Personally I am more than okay with that. I never want to see an Indiana Jones film without Ford. Unlike Bond, I don't...

I can see that. I felt that sting in 1992 when Fire Walk With Me came out, and I was expecting some resolution to the season 2 cliffhanger. That experience made me appreciate that I am never going to get easy answers from a Lynch film.

For me, this was the entire point. The Fireman and Judy are playing games with humanity, with Bob and Laura their respective totems on Earth. It is a cycle that will continue forever. I don't believe the Bob was created from the atomic blast (especially if Frost's secret history is to be...

Just as Lynch did with FWWM, refusing to give us the answers we crave, I love that its 25 years later and we are essentially in the same place, with both Cooper and Audrey trapped in cliffhangers. What an insane acid trip of a show that was. Couldn’t be happier with how it unfolded.

I took Cooper's conversation with the one-armed man to mean that he is having another tulpa created to replace the Dougie created by his doppelgänger. Perhaps if the new tulpa is created from the good Coop, he will be a better husband and father than the first one. I fully expect Cooper will...

Yes, Frost was again credited as Cyril Pons. I had a very difficult time understanding what Steven was saying to Gersten. Did anyone else get the impression from their conversation that he had killed Becky?

It's more than sloppiness. Last week there was an establishing shot of a moon, followed shortly by a scene with Charlie and Audrey where a new moon is referenced. I refuse to believe anyone as meticulous as Lynch (who, when filming the original pilot, personally arranged each grain of sand on...

There was a lot going on with her. Showtime apparently prohibited her from giving interviews because she was talking too much, she insisted the entire original cast apart from Kyle did not have contracts, long after other actors were on set filming, and she repeatedly accused the production of...

While watching last night, after the warden was murdered there was a shot of the moon that struck me, but I couldn’t place why. It seemed important somehow. Rewatching this evening, without the surprise of the Audrey reveal I was able to concentrate on the scene itself. When Audrey says that...

The best word I can think of to describe this episode is disorienting. While Twin Peaks is often slowly paced, unnaturally emotive and non-linear, much of part 12 seemed especially dreamlike. The seemingly reused footage of Dr. Jacoby, the exit of Cole's lady friend to the bar and Audrey's...