I've not really given this band a go for years - I was well into the Crime EP when it came out, and the Axl Rose album, and the Disco EP - I liked a bit of the Eternal Cowboy but I sort of drifted away, save for seeing them live a few times. When Laura came out I knew I had to listen to Transgender Dysphoria Blues (I…

Spaghetti Westerns are populated almost exclusively with either cool or aesthetically-pleasing names.

Just to be a pedant, far more likely that the video effects for this one were created in Paintbox, just judging from timeframes. But yes, it's all CGI.

I think it's the other way round - a studio already owns the film rights to COPS, and the current cash-saving trend is to use existing licenses rather than buy somebody else's stuff. They can go "Hey, writer! Write us a cop movie to specification!" and give him a salary rather than have to negotiate to buy his…

On a similar note, I found out today that sometimes a Nettle Pot is referred to as a "nasal douche" (I'd never heard it before but Wikipedia at least maintains that it's not wholly made up, as far as Wikipedia is ever able to maintain that).

The thing about Seagal is that, like, there are loads of really great things happening in the world of direct to video action films at the moment. Like that's where the good US action movies happen now, really. It sort of fascinates me that people are paying to put Seagal in these films when there's so many gifted…

What I'd really like to see happen is Fred Dekker doing a follow up to Night Of The Creeps.

How is QWOP not on this list.

That Ninja Golf thing is cool, I'd never seen it before. That would be a fun game to modernise, you could use randomly generated courses and your ninja would actually have to fight his way across the actual terrain rather than just a generic plain.

Can't handle that.

The first Bubsy game was subtitled "Claws Encounters Of The Furred Kind"

Maybe it's been pointed out already but surely the single greatest mistake of this endeavour was the belief that a broadway musical about fucking spider-man was going to be anything other than weird and fraught.

That movie, man. It was featured in the first (I think) issue of a short-lived horror magazine called "Wicked", and since I was like 13 and lived in a town that NEVER had horror magazines, i would read, and re-read this magazine convinced it was brilliant (it also had a spread on Jason X, which ended up getting…

Hire Jenna Elfman to play the same character and never comment on the change in appearance. Easy.

Jared Leto sucks so fucking much. Like, have you ever seen a more "white people" guy, even without the Joker makeup?

There are particular songs on those two seminal 80s soundtracks, Return Of The Living Dead and Repo Man, that are used so effectively and evocatively that even though I was already a fan of most of the bands on those records, every time they come on my ipod I'm transported back to that orange-dusty LA from Repo Man or…

Yeah but guys there's a pretty significant difference between portraying that and positioning the audience in such a way as to identify with that, isn't there? If the Joker is the one leering at her ass all the time, that doesn't mean the camera has to be.

I never really read Suicide Squad traditionally, I did read the New 52 one and I thought it was pretty lame, and so I don't really have any interest in seeing this film (it - and the New 52-revamped comic - both read like they're from 1996 if you ask me), so I'm not really keeping up with reviews etc.

This won't mean anything to anyone who's not Australian, but we have a genius comedian called Shaun Micallef who currently does a news comedy show called Mad As Hell, and one episode ended, for literally no reason, with a rendition of Butterfly Wings. Like he was talking about voting outcomes and he goes "…and…

The film has aged dismally, as has a lot of music from the period, but the soundtrack has a couple of absolutely amazing tunes. I generally tend to prefer upbeat Cure to dark cure (although I love plenty of other dark gothic rock), but Burn is, pardon the expression, an absolute scorcher of a tune, with some of…