I don't think NEWT is happening.
According to the rumor mill over at www.pixartalk.com, NEWT, which was going to be helmed by Gary Rydstrom, is no longer happening.

How about a Primer?
Every once in a while they run some insane special on the complete series over at Amazon. I picked up the entire thing for $25.

And you think this is a major problem? You think people are actually out there forcing themselves to listen to music they don't enjoy just so they can be ironic? I doubt it.

My favorite Peter Graves memory
I once worked at a call center where we were calling people all day long on an automated dialer. One time I called a guy and the name popped up on the screen "Jim Phelps." I thought, hey, cool. Nobody answered, so I disconnected and the very next call that came through popped up with…

Short stories?
You know, this column and the old Ask the AV Club feature have turned me on to a lot of good sci-fi. This book sounds awesome but I also like checking out short story collections by interesting sci-fi authors. Can anyone recommend a good collection for Dickson?

Nathan Fillion would have been a perfect Hal Jordan. I also think they should keep the INDIANA JONES movies going with different actors, James Bond style, and have Fillion don the fedora. He'd be great.

I can't believe Brett's version didn't get a mention. It's by far the most faithful and definitive Holmes put on screen.

Those both sound awesome. Ours is a tiny little joint that is also a reception hall, but the theater organ is awesome and so is the organist. Speaking of Fairbanks, we saw his ZORRO there and it was a lot of fun. That theater was also my intro to NOSFERATU.

Silent Film theaters
Anybody have a good silent film theater in their area? We have one place that shows old silent films with live organ accompaniment. They show a lot of silent comedy and once did a great Keaton double feature where they showed SHERLOCK, JR. and then an episode of TWILIGHT ZONE that Keaton did…

This is the movie that completely won me over to silent film comedy when I saw it in a Film History course (with live organ accompaniment!) Whenever I watch it now I like to watch other peoples' faces when Keaton jumps through the window containing his disguise in a box and immediately transforms into an old woman…

BTW, ordered one of these for my brother for Christmas. It just arrived and it looks fantastic.

I am placated.

PLANETARY was THIS decade!
What is this crap about the "best of PLANETARY" was in the 90s? The damn series started in '99 and published the bulk of its issues in the '00s. It is quite simply one of the best examinations of pulp fiction ever and is my personal favorite Warren Ellis work ever.

It's great to hear that other families have this tradition. "SCROOGE night" has been an annual holiday tradition at our house for going on 16 years. I remember when it finally came out on DVD and we were able to get rid of the worn out VHS copy we had. Great, great musical. And Albert Finney IS Scrooge.

Wow, a Mad Thinker shout out?
I love THE OFFICE, but now I love Leonard Pierce too.

Sorry, maybe you can just find it at www. movieline.com. Basically it's an interview with Ratner about how he started this whole Shooter Series idea. He says that the producer of the Director's Label approached him about doing a volume of that series and instead Ratner talked him into joining forces and creating their…

Director's Label
So according to this interview: http://www.movieline.com/20…, Ratner is pretty much responsible for ending the fantastic Director's Label series of music video directors so he could start one of his own with fabulous auteurs like himself and F. Gary Gray.

Gateway to Geekery?
Greenaway always sounds like a fascinating filmmaker but I have no idea where to start? What's considered prime Greenaway? And what's a good entry point to his work? Is he a candidate for a Gateway to Geekery entry?

Meat Loaf baby!
In my mind (and, presumably, in Dream's big library of unwritten works) there exists an amazing musical called BAT OUT OF HELL that combines all the best Jim Steinman songs into a giant, bombastic operatic spectacle directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

The eyes….
Oh man, thanks for including the "eyes" comment. Definitely line of the night.