I dunno, what's John Cazale been up to?

Let's call it even, both probably act like a rappers and rap like an actors.

"Was this originally planned as a film that didn’t pan out?"

I'm seriously amazed that Hollywood would actually reward anyone involved with Prometheus the reigns to any more big budget films, much less a fucking sequel.
The movie is just insultingly bad on just about every level other than production design, but I guess it made money somewhere.

Woman in the Dunes is great.
Mitchell's right about it being Abe's most focused novel, doesn't quite spiral off into weirdness and Abe's usual fetish quite-as-much.
I'd also recommend Secret Rendezvous and the short stories "An Irrelevant Death" and "Beyond The Curve," two wonderful instances where he almost out-Kafkas…

So, the Riddler is part of the Gotham crime lab. Huh? How's that going to work exactly?

I didn't like it. Tonally it's all over the place.
Like, Gordon and Bullock seemed to think they were in a high drama, the rest of the cast in comic camp. It seems to ache to be taken seriously, yet its very artificial and fussed over, not quite drama, not quite pulp, not quite anything.

Actually, she retired once already back in the 80's.

Guess you've never heard of the Hap and Leonard novels.
He was mildly famous for those long before his horror stuff really took off, and actually his last few novels have been more Southern Gothic leaning suspense yarns.

I discovered him via selected ambient Vol. 2 and instantly fell in love with it.
Then I saw the "Come To Daddy" video was the same guy and thought he sold out to industrial techno or somesuch.
But, no, he's just like that.
I haven't met many people who like both, most are either techno Aphex Twin people or ambient Aphex…

Probably one of the only moments that led me to groaning during the Roosevelts was that one talking head (14 hours and I cannot remember the guys name? ugh) saying that there was no way FDR could get elected today with is disability.
It was a poor piece of rose-colored hyperbole about news transparency then versus now.
I…

I thought the episode was pretty disposable. The Doc's final pin on the story, "beat that for a date," was good but the rest was just okay; doubt I'll revisit it anytime soon.

That is a great point.
Because of the looseness of MST's host segments/skits, I never considered how much those things informed the riffing until they were gone.
While I like some of Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic, it is just like you say, they have the baggage of not being able to hide: these are people, not characters.
…

Joel has even said he didn't mind the movie idea and wanted the workload to be lessened (24 eps a year, movie length, with riffs and skits needing to be written by barely over a handful of people had to be maddening). But when Hollywood fever had Mallon jockeying as the head honcho of everything MST, it just wasn't…

Still weird that Gena Rowlads and the Cassavetes estate remains so adamant about the first version being forbidden.
You'd think with the passage of time and some reasoning they'd soften on letting it be distributed, even just academically, but I guess he really hated it and was adamant he didn't want it out there.

She's seventeen years old?!?!
I thought she was ten, or thirteen at the most.

I often struggle with movies to watch with my mom, and this is the kind of pointed, thoughtful, funny character drama that works as a damn fine movie you can watch with mom.
Broderick is probably it's only weak spot.

The monster under the bed wasn't Clara, The Doctor, or fear.
The monster was Moffat.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Peter Capaldi as the Doctor.

Liked this episode.
Man, it was very, very fun.
A couple of the gags didn't quite work, like the spoon and the whole ending with the arrow thing, but holy Christ was the rest of the humor and the flow a treat.