Brian's brain
"If Mars has life on it, I might find my wife on it…"

Thanks, Scott
For making me feel a little less like a moron for kinda liking this movie.

live action
I recall seeing what must have been the pilot for a live action version of this. I think it had the same title and I'm almost positive that it was all the same characters. They either made a couple episodes or it was in a sort of omnibus of failed sitcom pilots cobbled together into one "original made for…

Hey Pack - -
Enthusiastically second your praise of Cap/Nomad era Steve Englehart. His Avengers and Doc Strange books from that time were fantastic, too. Any of that stuff reissued?

Reactor?
Only thing wrong with Neil Young's Re*Ac*Tor is that its not a double set.

Yeah -
These guys and The Creation (and Barrett's Floyd, come to think of it) really captured the menace and risk and dread that's not in most "psychedelic" music. Kudos for picking this record and name-checking Stacy Sutherland.

…
the word "UNEXPLORED" should've been in that headline somewhere.

the hitherto Titano/Gorilla Grodd/FF/W. Boring/Swan/Kirby/etc. connection
Yikes. The Macarthur Grant people are on their way.

DG
"At the very least, it proves that Guggenheim is adept at shooting more sophisticated setups than an Al Gore PowerPoint presentation."

R. Dayton's Q.
A. THE SEVEN UPS

The hard way
I should just get some kind of blog posting stationary that starts with - "excellent post, Noel, now here's some vaguely connected blather…"

Flandres
Good to hear, Scott. I'll check out your review. I think that was before I became addicted to the AVClub. Yeah, lil woman and I met through a very social local film geek scene and were warned about it. Rattled me MUCH more than her, as I think it should've. Did a phoner w/Dumont last week and shared that…

Twentynine Palms
I'll concede that twentynine palms is not for everyone's taste and is probably the worst date movie ever made (though I'm posting this from the computer of the girl I saw it with), but I'd hate for someone more sympathetic to Dumont's, er, style to miss out on an opportunity to see it (especially…

jump ball
Anyone ever see Hammer's NEVER TAKE SWEETS (CANDY in the US retitle) FROM A STRANGER ? Kinda genius.

If I had a Hammer…
Taste issue, to be sure, especially with the younger crowd, but Hammer house director Terence Fisher made a at least a half dozen good/great movies amongst the junk before the years and the bottle caught up with him and the bank and public tastes caught up with Tony Hinds, etc. Some of Val Guest's…

Le Doulos
Is fantastic. Messier and weirder than SAMOURAI, BOB, etc. I think Rialto is doing it next. Also, for my euros, though not a gangster pic, his second or third picture LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES is amazing.

Sad
Proof that refusing to play any four bar phrase the same way twice for 30 straight years will cost you your mind.

HEAVEN'S GATE III: THE SEARCH FOR THE RIGHT YEAR
Back in '80, not '79.

HEAVEN"S GATE II
HEAVEN'S GATE isn't just the contemporary standard by which to measure studio-busting flops, it was in its day a key object lesson that helped to justify sequel blockbustery (slightly separate topic, but on my mind lately) amongst the bean counters in Hollywood. The fact that the big winner at the…

Meh…
I like the No Exit idea, though I'd feel better if it were more of a disaster scenario and Rory and Lorelai were forced to capture, torture, kill, and eat Sookie, Jackson, and Lane, in order to keep thier strenght up for all that talking.