When I was a kid, just hearing the sounds scared me more than the visuals. One time while visiting extended family as a kid, the cousins rented Poltergeist. Which both families gathered around the TV and watched during a massive thunderstorm. Not a great time for this former scaredycat who broke out a book to avoid…

I genuinely love the name Monkeypaw Productions. So fitting for a horror movie. Makes me wonder what’s in the fine print of their contracts, though.

And enclaves of affluent morons are doing their damnedest to bring back mumps and whooping cough.

It’s a thing. All of these are the result of people not reading books. They’ve never seen the words in print (I mean actual edited, published material, not internet posts), so they just repeat what they think they heard. It’s the telephone game in action.

“The TENANTS of a genre” (tenets)

The amount of liquid in the bananas will vary with size and ripeness, I’d say. More liquid = gummier bread. I use the America’s Test Kitchen recipe, which calls for microwaving 5 bananas for 5 minutes, straining the liquid from them (about 1/2 cup), and reducing that to 1/4 cup before adding it back to the banana pulp.…

A shareholder summed it up pretty well at an earlier meeting. Activision exists to funnel money into Kotick’s pockets. End of story.

The Big Gorilla Week movie lineup this year also includes A Clockwork Orang, The Apes of Wrath, The Mandrill Who Knew Too Much, and Ape-pocalypse Now. Brought to you by Rhesus Pieces.

How freaking tiny is Lisseth Chavez (Spooner) in Legends of Tomorrow? She’s pocket sized! Is Lord of the Rings-style forced perspective involved, or is she average height and everyone else is enormous?

They shouldn’t make money off of an idea they had years ago? Like Disney and Mickey Mouse, say? Oh, wait...

Aw, Julius Carry was in that as the owner of the titular pizza place. Now I miss Julius Carry.

I tried a couple episodes of Schitt’s Creek. I didn’t get it. At all.

>A vacationing family is terrorized by a madman named Mandrake, the Magician and his silent accomplice, Tubs,

I only knew Amanda Waller from the animated Batman shows - a hardass, but not evil - and then this movie version straight-up murders a room full of junior FBI agents in cold blood. That mostly made me hate the writers.

Geez, I had no idea he was Swedish. I’ve only seen him in For All Mankind and Altered Carbon.

A reboo-quel.

During his last “We’re sorry, we can chaaaaaaange!” performance, he reminded me of the skeezy mechanic at a backwoods gas station in a horror movie who steers unwitting victims towards the local cannibal family. Replace cannibals with sexual predators, and I guess I wasn’t too far off.

Or the Cyclons’ “plan” in BSG.

Speaking as a movie translator and subtitler, I remember the Let the Right One In brouhaha clearly. In my case, I love getting fansplained to by people who freely admit that they don’t know a word of Japanese, yet love to opine on translations.

>Dacascos ... has never been better than in Brotherhood of the Wolf,