Oh, she looks fine. Not as good as when she's in her Mondrian dress tho'… For that reason among many others, this Rock Lobster clip should be preferred: http://www.youtube.com/watc…
No 52 Girls discussion? Too bad.

Yep, The Fly (1986) really hits you where you live. Consider the wrist-wrestling at the bar scene…

Um, Travolta is great in the surprisingly great (gritty, well-photographed, etc.) Saturday Night Fever.

The Matrix = Descartes's Meditations 1&2 (provocative, fairly convincing, essential reading)
Reloaded&Revolutions =  Meditations 3-6 (convoluted, utterly unconvincing, of interest only to specialists)

Lilya-4-ever. (Miserableness made worse by the reality of sex-trafficking)
 Looking for Mr Goodbar. (Just flat-out disturbing and shocking. Made by a major studio in the '70s. Incredible.)

Agreed…and look at all the great Carpenters songs further down the list, and Cher doing Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves and J5 doing Never can say goodbye. Aint no sunshine? Timeless pop.

You exaggerate TNR. Since ROL, two Madge albums have been very solid: Music and Confessions on a Dancefloor.  Of more concern perhaps is the flat-lining for M. since Confessions (the last five years).

Hang on, are you saying Broken Frame is lackluster or pretty decent? It's definitely the latter, and it's definitely a better record than Construction Time Again. For one thing the drum machine sounds on Construction Time (from an EMU drumulator) are just terrible compared to either the Daniel Miller-synthesized…

Yeah, but this horrible movie almost certainly never thought it was any good, and it's hard to get any pleasure out of seeing Ricci in this crap-fest. Now, reading critics unload on/serially defile Nicole Kidman for, say, her part in the atrocious The Invasion (by the director of Downfall no less - this movie thought…

Brooks played in Auckland in August 1994 (and maybe other times as well), at which point his album In Pieces got to #3 in the NZ charts. A bemused bFM at the time compromised and played his (rather good!) cover of Kiss's Hard Luck Woman quite a bit. Oh, he made it out there….

Julian Sands brings us to Boxing Helena which is notable for precisely two things.

The best music of 1993 was the pastiche of Solsbury Hill and Great Gig in the Sky used in  At&t's, Fincher-directed 'You will' ads. Mosaic web-browser was out, the future was so close, the recession was over, and lots of people were going to get rich (but pay a decent wodge of tax, hence pay down debt and lift all…

Extreme (with More than words) is a much better example of the phenomenon than Goo Goo Dolls, who had plenty of sappy ballads, and who were also just a decent band period.