I don't know — those Nic Cage pachinko ads are pretty sweet. Maybe all the guy needs is a director who makes good use of his talent for bizarre freakouts, like David Lynch or the Coen brothers. I'd say success definitely spoiled him, starting with "The Rock." His career was in better shape when he was known as a…

Interestingly (or not), Matheson is on record as saying that the closest adaptation of "I Am Legend" (in spirit, at least) is "Night of the Living Dead." Matheson hated "The Last Man On Earth" and did all he could to distance himself from it.

Yeah, it's a tough call for me. "Wings of Desire" has that scene in which Peter Falk tries on hats for what seems like about forty minutes. "City of Angels" features Meg Ryan riding a bike down the middle of a twisty coastal highway with her eyes closed and her hands off the handlebars, then, appropriately, getting…

To rah:

I'm not casting a blind eye on the obvious. I'd like to think that Cooper has the most screen time, but I believe it's actually a tough call, and I've wondered if others have similar impressions.

Most Screen Time
Question about the show in general: Who do you think has the most screen time over the full course of the series?

Oh, and:

"Land of the Dead" did have Asia Argento in it. I'd eat her. If I were a zombie, I mean.

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Zippy or Shambly Zombies?
I admit to a certain fondness for the leisurely zombie, who shuffles or crawls toward his flesh-feast and is easily distracted. Like, when he's coming your way, you have enough time to find your car keys and drive off, or you can take the time to choose just the right two-by-four from some…

My wife's really into zombies, especially those newfangled zippy zombies, but I'm not. My favorite zombie movie is Tourneur and Lewton's "I Walked With a Zombie," so I wouldn't say that the flesh-eating undead are an interest exclusive to fanboy types.

I'd be impressed if Stacy512 actually went to the library to figure anything out. Instead, she's the sort of person who probably typed "noir" into Google, then somehow got confused and sidetracked by a Wikipedia reference to the influence of German Expressionism on film noir — and that was the end of her "research."

Composed Cinema
Judging by his commentary on Powell & Pressburger movies, Scorsese has long been more deliberate than other directors about a film's music and images complementing one another to create what Michael Powell coined a "composed film." The images and music are essential to each other, and the combined…

Ojala
These videos are hilarious. Sometimes sloppy mockery is the most appropriate and effective form of scorn. After listening to Pussy Galore's infamously sarcastic track-by-track takedown of "Exile On Main St.," for example, it's pretty much impossible to take the Stones album seriously anymore.

Wait a minute — Jeff Foxworthy's Opera Nachos didn't make that AVC list of celebrity-endorsed foods?

Looks like someone uploaded this whole thing on YouTube, but the quality is washed-out and generally awful. Still creepy, though.

I was recently thinking about "Wild Palms" too. I like Bruce Wagner's writing, but … not so much a fan of the James Belushi. I haven't rewatched it for that reason, but I'd be curious to revisit it just for its depiction of L.A. in the futuristic year of 2007.

LOL! Whoops — gave myself away for using another assumed screen name on a goofy Videocracy comment, after which I forgot to log back in.

"NC-17-level violence"
Like any culture vulture, I love introducing stuff to people who haven't read, heard, or seen some article of pop culture I think they'd enjoy. My 14-year-old stepdaughter has begun to genuinely appreciate suggestions of good books, music, movies, etc. — a miraculous development, as any…

In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women. I assume the same applies in space.