I often wondered if in Germany they called it "The Hart". And then I got hold of the internet and found out that it had a completely different name in Germany, so that joke doesn't work any more.

I think that Disciplined Ship's second album, "Done with the Punch", is a masterpiece of modern folk-rock. It blows anything The Optical Device has released out of the water.

I read tonnes of Isaac Asimov when I was young - his short story collections always had entertaining behind-the-scenes commentaries - but nothing about his work really lends itself to a visual presentation. His characterisation was perfunctory, he didn't have a distinctive visual imagination, and the stories were…

You can imagine him pulling out loads of 7" records and throwing them at the bad guy.

Scary thing is that was 1995. He must have been simultaneously irritated that they took so long, and that they didn't think he had anything left.

I hope they had outtakes at the end where he drops the award, or he reaches for the award and falls over, almost breaking his neck, or the award's head falls off but he pretends that nothing is wrong, or he falls through a hole in the stage and gets stuck etc.

Not if you hit it hard enough. Not any more.

It sounds a lot like The Chart Show, which came out in Britain in the late 1980s - it was less snarky but it still had captions during the videos, and awesome 3D animations done on a Commodore Amiga.

The VHS tape of Barb Wire ended with about ten minutes of Pamela Anderson pole-dancing topless. That just sprang into my head.

If you google "vrml examples" you get a bunch of pages from 1996-1998 touting VRML, a 3D scripting language which was the hot new thing back then.

Imagine a mash-up of The Thing and Being John Malkovich, in which The Thing apologetically admits that it can only turn into John Malkovich, which is an obvious disguise because Malkovitch is highly recognisable.

Things -> Thing³ -> Live Free or Thing Hard

Posting outraged comments about politics on the Onion's what-I-watched-on-TV-yesterday spin-off is silly. It's supposed to impress the audience; the OP was trying to show off his edge.

What about Phase IV, where the monsters were tiny little ant-sized ants? Is that romantic comedy? It did have kissing. It had men kissing ants.

It's odd seeing the AV Club plugging features from Wired. They're the enemy, surely? Bruce Campbell has aged like fine wine.

The captain lived. He was courtmartialed and found guilty although this was later quashed. He shot himself dead in 1968.

I think I just cut myself on your edge.

I tried that with Derek Jarman's Blue, and I wasn't convinced. Then I tried Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lilly? and I'm still not convinced.

I disagree. I saw Lawrence at the cinema last year, and perhaps it's because of the big screen but it felt as if David Lean had asked O'Toole to act as the contemporary stereotype of a flamboyant gay man.

I can recommend Freejack. Coming straight off Silence of the Lambs I felt that Hopkins' performance was even more solid - his mixture of passionate anger and iron resolve mirrored the overall tone of the film itself, which is by far the best sci-fi action pic of 1992 with Mick Jagger and Anthony Hopkins in it.