Krakatoa is actually west of Java

Death, Jr.?

I’d be more inclined to appreciate this ad if it was for a decent product, but... what the hell, good for the multinational lousy beer distributor, I guess.

What’s that watermelon doing there?

The four minutes will be the scene at the passport office that was in the trailer but not in the movie.

Who’s playing Bill O’Riley?

One thing about the original, if I’m remembering right, is that all the effects were done real-time.  I mean, they didn’t add lizard tails later, or even cut away, I think.  I didn’t know that when I saw it first but it seemed (in hindsight I guess) to give the movie more immediacy and real-world scariness.

Don’t mean to nitpick, but Patton Oswalt’s character in Big Fan works in a tollbooth, not a parking garage. The job, miserable as it would be under any circumstances, serves to emphasize his isolation.

Kathy Bates was soooo damn good in “Misery”

What! Why, next you’ll disparage the classic film “The Oscar”!

Movie Sam is the better choice than Movie Bucky. Jeez, what if Bucky is Cap and someone starts reeling off words like “furnace... seventeen... nine... daybreak...”? Boy you have trouble.

It was a good and thoughtful review, AA Dowd, but — I edited it down for you:

There’s sort of a running orgy theme in the Wachowski’s work...

Chiming in to recommend James Hyne’s Publish and Perish. It’s three linked stories (the subtitle is Three Tales of Tenure and Terror)ot all linked with all, but some with some if you know what I mean). Each one is funny-ish, and each has to do with academia.  But through all there’s a sense of inevitability, and you…

“Door Dash for bears.”  Laughed out loud at that one.  Blaine Capatch is one of the funniest people on the planet.

I guess I didn’t know that Be Kind, Rewind was at all divisive.  I remember it as very funny and surprisingly sweet.  I’ll find it and watch it again, because... I still think I’ll find it funny and sweet.  I don’t get out much.

If he fails in the attempt to own an NFL team, is his next step game show host, then president?  Just checking.

You gotta put a TJ Miller type in the middle of these sci-fi horror things, I know. I do wonder how long it’s going to be TJ Miller though.

I just love Jim Gaffigan. He puts a ton of work in to make his stuff look conversational and smooth, which it does, always - and you never see him struggling with that. He’s reliably funny, often hilarious, and when he veers off from “clean comedy” it’s subtle and all the more subversive.

My favorites, although Marvel took pains to note they were alternate chronologies, are Deathlok (I think Luther Manning is blown up in 1990) and Killraven, which I think begins in 2018 when Killraven escapes the Martian gladiator pits (the Martians came back in 2001, having figured out how not to die from the earth…