The gimmick of Rear Window is that every shot in the film is supposed to be a shot from some point in James Stewart's apartment. Except one. During the scene where the dog is found dead, Hitchcock breaks his rule once and only once with a shot that could not conceivably been shot through the titular window: after Ms Lonelyhearts puts the limp dog in the basket for the owners to hoist up, the woman who owns the dog tearfully…

My mother asked if I thought it was corny. "But I thought it was corny too, and I can still love it!" she said defensively before I could answer yes or no. I didn't think it was corny, actually, it's actually deeply cynical and that's one of the only things I like about La La Land. Singin' in the Rain is corny. La La Land? It's smug. Worse: it's smug AND it has little reason to be

Christ, I was…