I have some fondness for Rocky Horror, since I saw it at an irresponsibly young age… but if you haven't heard a recommendation for Phantom of the Paradise yet, you're talking to the wrong people.

Scarface: "a De Palma movie for people who don't like De Palma movies" - Pauline Kael.

You seen Hi, Mom! yet? because I actually think that's his best early film, and a true counterculture (and countercounterculture) masterpiece.

I love Brahm - Hangover Square is an out-and-out masterpiece, although it's more Noir than Horror - but if we're making comparisons to Bava/De Palma, I have to shout out my boy Robert Siodmak: The Spiral Staircase (1946) is quite arguably the first Giallo. It even has creepy P.O.V. shots, fixation on extreme close-ups…

Yeah. A funnier host would play up the arbitrary nature of the game-show format. But funny people are funny, so good…

Well, its a comedian-based panel show. If Hardwick gets funny people on the panel, show is good.

We're not talking about judging a film's worth—we're talking about how
many critics liked a movie versus how many critics didn't like it.
There's a difference.

Saying "Gertrude McSevenCats from the Omaha PennySaver" "opinion" is just as valid film criticism as A.O. Scott kind of implies such a thing.

You're working under the fallacy that criticism is just opinion. Which dangerously ignores a few centuries of Aesthetics.

Is the opinion of Gertrude McSevenCats from the Omaha PennySaver not as worthy as A.O. Scott?"

Tony started off good… but then there was a reeeeeeeaaaaal drop-off in quality.

So…. Cormac McCarthy's Master of the Flying Guillotine?

Badly DNRed-to-hell HD transfers of towering film masterpieces. The case of the Children of Paradise restoration may very well have been out of their hands, but Criterion's constant insistent that both transfers looked right and were true to the materials seemed awfully arrogant and downright wrong from a company…

????

I agree, misguided fandom is no reason to trample a 6 year-old's tombstone.

Most of them landing on female student leftists. Ouch.

Bruce Lee vs. Gay Power or bust.

I've seen Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave and I'm pretty sure I could fight my way out of it.

It's actually a dirty secret of the "first wave" of Kung-Fu films: many of the films were rabidly anti-Japanese, but until around 1975, the backbone of HK choreography was Karate. Go figure.

Lo Wei's film before leaving Shaw Brothers are actually pretty damn entertaining if certainly uneven.