Agreed. Posey might not be a performer on O'Brien's level, but he was pretty good in that scene. And I think he's a bit underrated overall.

At a party, Frost, who didn't know how to swim, fell into the pool and Cook fished him out. Cook later said that his only regret in life was having saved David Frost from
drowning.

John Cleese reacted to her nomination by saying that Michael was no longer the funniest Palin.

"I was going to suggest that there were other films around, like Robin
and Marian, that Python were mimicking, but even that came out a year
later."

Regarding why the Uncle, of all of the wolves, was able to actually turn into a full bodied werewolf…
Jeff Davis has been asked why Derek never turned into a full-bodied (i.e. proper) werewolf last season, and he said the budget didn't allow it (I guess they blew their wad on the lizard-man). But he's also implied…

Excellent write-up from Mr. Sava. Four notes of my own:
01. Genre fiction relies heavily on convictions that are accepted by the reader/viewer, and some of the greatest genre fiction occurs when those conventions are tested…and destroyed. In doing so, the storyteller radically redefines the contract made with his…

The "terrible Joker design from TNBA" (which both I and Sava quite liked) was an obvious influence on the ROTJ Joker design, which is hardly a retread of the BTAS model.

Yes. Just yes. As Bruce Timm once noted, he and his co-producers decided to put Barbara and Bruce together EXACTLY because it was wrong. And it's a terrific idea that should have been further explored. (Lancelot falling in love with his King/best friend's wife was also wrong—that's the stuff good drama is made of,…

I remember liking "SubZero", but it's the only DCAU film I've never re-watched. My big problem with it, "Deep Freeze" and "Cold Comfort" is that the DCAU Mr. Freeze simply doesn't work as a recurring character. His story began and ended in "Heart of Ice," and bringing Nora back to life was a terrible idea, one that…

Cleese got story-credit for The Croods, but he left the project when it became obvious that he wouldn't be given the freedom to write the screenplay without a good deal of corporate interference.

That's because it barely featured Dick Tracy and was a loathsome and complete betrayal of the entire comic strip.

Congratulations to Mr. Sava for completing his impressive coverage of BTAS. Though he already did a fine job at the start, his reviews got even better as he progressed through the series. I especially liked his attention to direction, animations studios, and the musical scores.
I wish I could share his opinion of this…

"The writing is simple, the cheap animation destroys some very nice character redesigns, and the dramatics are nonexistent."

I loved the first third of this episode, with Joker and Batman revisiting their past and the creation of the Creeper. Harley's pie bit is jawdropping fun as well. But I disliked everything else. Jeff Bennett is an excellent actor but his Creeper sounds forced when trying to sound unhinged, much like the comedy in this…

I'd much rather have Batman Beyond reviewed than Gargoyles. The former suffered from some weak second-season episodes but otherwise succeeded as a futuristic film noir, with some surprisingly bleak episodes, and a worthy continuation/extension of BTAS. I've never been able to view Gargoyles as anything other as…

I think you've pretty much nailed the problem with this episode. If Bruce is going to fall in love and get married, it would have involve a remarkable woman. But Susan, as you put it, is just a cypher. Bruce seems to like her most because she doesn't mind him being absent most of the time. This just makes Bruce look…

"It Happened At The World's Fair" isn't very good, but the song you linked to—"They Remind Me Too Much of You"—is one of Elvis's finest movie songs. It was written by Don Robertson, the author of some of Elvis's best 60s ballads, including "I Met Her Today," "Starting Today," "There's Always Me," and "Anything That's…

Good article, but I think the best Elvis film to start with is "That's the Way It Is." It's an actual Elvis film, not Elvis seen through a Hollywood distorting lens. It also shows Elvis at the near-height of his comeback, when he was still lean and energetic. It's a better introduction to his live shows than "Elvis On…

Good review, as usual. The sentence "Batman, who began his life as a down-to-Earth urban vigilante before
getting sucked into a world of goofy camp when his TV show hit the air" does raise an interesting issue—the TV series was more down to earth than some of the weirder Batman comics of the 50s and early 60s. And the…

The Jim Starlin story was titled (IIRC) "You Should Have Seen 'Him," and is Batman #423. I agree that it's a terrific story, and the scene where Batman threatens a hostage-taking punk has some of Batman's best lines. There's a long blog post on it (not by me) which has scans from the before-mentioned scene: http://ninj…