They actually tried to rectify that middle finger in this movie but as MJ noted it was shoehorned in and didnt make much sense (or have any payoff either). Speaking of a middle finger...what do you guys make of them retconning the Rabbit's Foot from the third movie to now be something extremely imp...

Interesting...I know very little about Scientology and always just assumed (incorrectly perhaps) that any religious symbolism in his movies would be tied to Scientology. Is that what it teaches??? I don't know much about Scientology either but I doubt any of the symbols I mentioned would have been ...

I gave the movie 4 ½ stars. Here’s my letterboxd review. https://letterboxd.com/johnkholm/film/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning/ The entire movie has an apocalyptic tone and is filled with religious and mythological imagery. All of humanity is threatened with extinction by an evil entity that ...

I just watched the TV movie Sweet Sweet Rachel, which served as a sort of pilot for this show, (with a different cast) a few months ago.

Not to ask a dumb question, but I barely pay attention to the MCU anymore. So the new Avengers movie that the Russo brothers are shooting, is the cast supposed to be the characters from Thunderbolts? Or a different team? Is there going to be a New Avengers and an Old Avengers? Seems bizarre that the...

Also, Happy Birthday, Eric! (Just saw the notice at the bottom of the main page.)

Gross out F/X have always been a turnoff for me. The melting Nazis traumatized me in Raiders as a kid and that's why I never saw another Indiana Jones film (especially after I read about the violence in Temple of Doom). I have never seen Carpenter's "The Thing" and have no desire to along...

More proof (as if we needed any) that the Russo brothers have no actual talent other than convincing studios to give them money.

Like I've said before, if this is "Star Wars for adults", stick a pacifier in my mouth. It drives me crazy that some people associate things like fun, hope, adventure and optimism with childishness while doom, despair, darkness and violence are equivalent to being an adult. And it's espec...

I want to see the Latvian animated movie Flow, which got two nominations. It just showed up on VOD platforms.

Lynch is the only director of "weird" movies that I enjoy. There was something about the way he could combine image and sound in ways that were surreal, perplexing and astonishing. No one else could do "weird" like him. My favorite works of his are Twin Peaks , Mulholland Drive a...

I find the Narnia books to be...OK. I quite enjoy T he Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe , find Dawn Treader pretty good but can barely remember most of the others. I've never read The Magician's Nephew or The Last Battle . My pastor would be mortified if he knew. There's barely a Sunday goes by with...

Dumping out my remaining Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops specials with this rather odd Thanksgiving concert from 1999 with special guests John Schneider and Richard Thomas! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouTcUzcnreo Odd to be sure but refreshingly sincere and uncynical. I enjoyed it. Thanks for posti...

As in...names scrolling for 17 minutes? Were there mid-credits/post credits scenes that ran long?

I've never heard of this either. Also had no idea Paula Poundstone ever did a movie.