The only test you have to watch out for is that one that asks why you're not putting the tortoise back on its feet. Blow that one and you end up flying out of the city with Harrison Ford, if that's your idea of a good time.

That would be Seeds, though, right?

Reminds me, I'm late for my pitch meeting — I've got a script about aliens running a pawnshop - they sell stolen Nazi art treasures. I've got to sandwich slavery into it somehow now.

They're not going far enough. I think we should just bring back slavery. But this time, use Gypsies.

I think the way I experienced Hudson Hawk was the best way: for various reasons (my subscription to Premiere had run out, my children were young and taking up a lot of our time, i wasn't paying much attention to any pop culture) I had never heard one thing about the movie at all. It came out on video, I rented it,…

Not sure 12 Monkeys is really a great jumping off point for a series, unless it's maybe a plague-a-week kind of thing.

"Hugh Jackman didn’t spend the past year moving his veins to the outside of his body"
Ewww. Also, I laughed out loud. Good one, Sean.

I'm actually borderline amused by like those ridiculous decals of Calvin praying. They're just so fucking misguided! Calvin would pray that he doesn't get caught doing some mischief, or that he can avoid a beating from Moe, or that he doesn't completely blow it on a spelling test he hasn't studied for. These are…

Yeah, the music should have been at least Cheap Suit Serenaders level…
But the animation was fine, and as far as I'm concerned they could go ahead and do a full-length strip, just don't try to do the voices. See, it could be subtitled! That way it would be….
Um… like simply reading the old strips. Never mind, that's…

Um… has the AVC ever interviewed her? Now would be the time if not.

That's a great book, that Moose That Roared book. It's detailed, possibly too detailed, and yet lighthearted enough that it makes you feel like you're hanging around with the gang at Jay Ward Productions.
Oh, and the Sherman and Peabody trailer looks completely stupid. I'll just ignore the movie when it comes out,…

Yeah, I liked the Piper Perabo — sorry, Rocky and Bullwinkle —movie pretty much. It had a lot of the same 4th-wall-breaking humor and a good sense of silliness to it. They really did squeeze in that "you talkin' to me?" bit - there were a dozen ways they could have done it better - but it looked to me like DeNiro…

LIfetime pass, though, for Galaxy Quest. Right? (And I'm one of hopefully many who truly enjoyed Big Trouble.) He's possibly a bad person, or was. But hey, at least he's not a lesbian like that Dory from Finding Nemo!

Never heard that about Mamet, and I'd say that the speech was written by Sorkin —
he too is quite the Gilbert & Sullivan quoter.

Well, I collect the paintings of Reuben Kincaid, manager of the Partridge Family. They're sure to be worth something some day.

Good thing it didn't look like Lola Heatherton. It would want to have your child.

Well. I will never watch Tenspeed and Brownshoe again, because… I really liked it the first time and I'm afraid it won't hold up. Not exactly a lifetime pass for Goldblum there, but.. a day pass probably.

Oh, it's pretty easy to conquer a Unix system, if you "know" it, apparently.
It was such a ridiculous line for the girl — it pretty much said that she RECOGNIZED the system, but from there, it would be a pretty big leap to actually doing something with it.
But I love the fucking movie anyway. I wish Spielberg had stuck…

This is my favorite version of the four. The first is fun and nicely creepy, the Abel Ferrara one has that wonderful setting (an Army base) and a good vibe… but this one, the 1978, is the best. I think the whole Me Decade/SF-based story kicked the Jack Finney ideas up a notch.
There was one starring Nicole Kidman but…

Robert Preston was always magic. Think of Victor Victoria, S.O.B. The Chisolms, Junior Bonner, How the West was Won…. Oh, and I guess Music Man. He's been gone two decades and I still want him to turn up as a grandpa or something on Raising Hope or whatever.