the trailer for Goon looks pretty promising, and he's the star in that. I like how he's not afraid to take on all sorts of quirky character parts, Like the wimpy braces dude in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, or the manic informant or whatever he was supposed to be in Cop Out.

'Lies' was by Thompson Twins, (another possible future candidate for We're No. 1). 'Lies' wasn't half bad for a Thompson Twins song. I think it was their first US hit. One of my first ever album purchases was Thompson Twins' Sidekicks ('83-ish). That album started out really solid - 'Love on Your Side' / 'Lies' / 'If…

I watched Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (the 1st series, from 1936) on netflix. Low budget looking, crappy editing and special effects even by 30's standards, "alien" costumes and set pieces looked like they were taken straight from some film about ancient Rome. but somehow i couldn't stop watching it. I blame Jean…

i find Doughboys barely watchable. my favorite of his talkies by far is 'Parlor Bedroom and Bath'. i hope Warner Archive releases that one out soon.

500 Days of Strummer

my money's on they slept together at the end of the last one, before heading off in different directions. but when they have a chance meeting again many years later, the big reveal will be Julie Delpy's character now has a 11-year-old kid who looks suspiciously like Ethan Hawke.

i have zero tolerance for his music. i can't stand his voice, and his songwriting does nothing for me, not to mention the badly dated production style of his 70's output.

i think you are confusing the AOR (album-oriented rock) format that was popular in the 70's and 80's with the classic rock format. The 80's AOR stations disappeared by the 90's and were replaced by "classic rock" stations that played the exact same songs, but sticking to the 70's and 80's and not playing anything new.…

or you could get a new stereo with an ipod jack for only about $120, maybe less. Mine changed my life. Haven't listened to the radio ever since, no desire for XM either. if i want to listen to music, i've got 1000's of songs and hundreds of artists in dozens of playlists, if i want to listen to talk, there's an…

i sometimes shop there ironically, mainly to laugh at all the inbred families of 300-pounders fresh off the farm who always seem to be there. (maybe they go there to laugh at the silly-looking city folk such as myself). Also, it is kind of fun waiting in the checkout line for 20 minutes, even when there are only 2…

yeah i'd obsess over that, especially if they added captions that said how the news story ended, or what ultimately happened to the people mentioned in the story. such as, if it was about a bank robbery, did the robber ever get caught? how long was he in jail? etc.

what a sad story!

My grandmother met Oliver Hardy in 1931, when she was a teenager. she said he was very friendly and talked with her and her friends for several minutes. (I'm guessing it probably helped that she was pretty). i was very impressed when i found out.

i happen to think 'A Night in Casablanca' is one of the best comedies of the 40's. I've seen it many times and it never gets old. Something about the Marx Bros. involved in espionage and fighting Nazis just kills me. i agree with you about Harpo though. He was always brought his A game to even the lesser Marx Bros…

nah, Breaking Bad is more Abbott & Costello. Laurel & Hardy were both complete morons.

nice list, but it seems slightly unfair to include silent-style comedians (Keaton, Chaplin) in the same list as the dialogue-dependent comedians who were at their peak in the sound era (W.C. Fields, Marx Bros.). some comedians managed to do both styles well (L&H), but in the end they are really two different movie…

i don't get the reference, but i should note that "Flying Deuces" doesn't appear to be on this set, (maybe because a public domain copy is widely available for cheap or free?). I really wish it was included on the set anyway. That one is probably my favorite of their later films, more so because it has one of the…

unwatchable, really? On the 'Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy' set, while i don't have much love for the early comedy shorts the actors appeared in before they were teamed up (with a few exceptions), i think their silents as a team were very enjoyable from the start, and their earliest talkies are solid. (C'mon, how can…

yeah, it's kind of a shame if they didn't include any of the silents in this set. Those are what made them popular in the first place, and they are just as funny as their talkies. The 'Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy' DVD set has pretty much everything they did in the silent era, so you'll need to get that too if you…

i'm so excited about this set!