John Trumbull

John Trumbull

Favorite films

  • Superman
  • Goldfinger
  • High Fidelity
  • That Thing You Do!

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  • Will & Harper

    ★★★★

  • The Greatest Night in Pop

    ★★★

  • Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!

    ★★½

  • Anyone But You

    ★½

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  • Will & Harper

    Will & Harper

    ★★★★

    Watched for Episode 329 of the SNL Nerds podcast.

  • The Greatest Night in Pop

    The Greatest Night in Pop

    ★★★

    Takeaways from The Greatest Night in Pop, Bao Nguyen's Netflix documentary about "We Are the World," the 1985 charity single for famine relief in Ethiopia:

    1) Lionel Richie went straight from hosting and performing at the American Music Awards (when he won six times) to the all-night recording session for this song he co-wrote with Michael Jackson. Big night, man.

    2) We missed the chance of having Stevie Wonder co-write the song due to unreturned phone calls. Shame. Stevie could've…

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  • The Last of Sheila

    The Last of Sheila

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Who Done It: The Clue Documentary

    Who Done It: The Clue Documentary

    ★★

    An unfortunately amateurish doc about the great cult comedy.

    First off, director Jeff C. Smith is severely handicapped by the fact that Eileen Brennan and Madeline Kahn have both passed away. Moreover, he was apparently unable to secure new interviews with John Landis, Christopher Lloyd, Martin Mull, and Tim Curry, forcing him to rely on archival footage. So that leaves Colleen Camp, Michael McKean, Lesley Ann Warren, Lee Ving, writer/director Jonathan Lynn, and the guy who played the Motorist to…