Hitchcock said a movie should play the audience like a piano. Death Race played me like a drum. It is an assault on all senses, including common. Wal… - Roger Ebert

Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer, according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

Karl Malden once said the hardest thing he ever had to do as an actor was act as if he didn’t know he was about to be hit in the head with a beer can.

In my very first review I was already jaded, observing of "Galia," an obscure French film, that it "opens and closes with arty shots of the ocean, mother of us all, but in between it's pretty clear that what is washing ashore is the French New Wave." My pose in those days was one of superiority to the movies, although just when I had the exact angle of condescension calculated, a movie would open that disarmed my defenses and left me ecstatic and joyful.