My own Saw story: at the time of the first movie, my then-girlfriend wanted to see it and I didn't want to, because I have sort of a general issue with cinematic torture scenes and I assumed the movie might just be lots of gruesome torture with no redeeming anything. But we saw it, and I actually thought it was pretty…

The Rocky

OK, so, let's assume the company makes about $30 for every bottle they sell; to earn back a billion dollars, they'd have to sell more than 33 million bottles, which would mean something like one out of every seven American adults buying a bottle of this particular brand of tequila. So I guess, uh… people like tequila?

And little plastic toy ray-guns shaped like dragons.

What about Robot Monster? That movie's sad because it's sad when someone's both a robot and a monster.

Then of course there was the honorable Tata family - of Tata Steel, Tata Chemical, Tata Telecom and the Sir Ratan Tata Trust - suing the guy in New Jersey who ran bodacious-tatas.com.

"And I hesitate to say that you're a liar /
I never tell the truth myself"

Um, I think you're missing the most important issue: if businesses have to modify their practices to avoid climate change then that means they might lose money, whereas if they don't change what they're doing, they'll continue to make money. You wouldn't want people to lose money, would you?

They need to do way with instain replicants who kill their tortoise

The thing is, paper books really are an amazing technology. They last a really long time, they don't need electricity, they provide a generally better reading experience than comparable digital devices, and their manufacture is arguably better for the environment than that of said digital devices (though there's…

For the true Black Mirror experience I'd recommend the two episodes with 'white' in the title: White Bear and White Christmas. Those two are both 1) really good, and 2) really fucking dark.

Yeah, I had been looking forward to this remake because I felt like the original (which I did like when I was younger) really didn't go far enough with such a potentially rich premise; this trailer isn't inspiring much confidence, though. Maybe someday someone will make a really good…

Honest question: do you have film prints of lots of movies in your garage, or just this one?

So at first I thought this was about the Japanese hippie/psych band also called Ghost, which is weird because they don't really seem like civil-litigation-type people (or the sort of band to have ever earned very much money). But anyway, they were a great band; check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

It's not my thing, but I do respect metal guys who just, like, really go all-in for it.

They're good margaritas, Brent.

It wasn't hard for the authorities to figure it out - they just had to follow the breadcrumb trail.

Well, here's one for you: his work as a visual artist is actually pretty compelling; I know he used to say that he considered himself an artist/sculptor more than a musician. Here're some images from his 2002 exhibit 'Collision Drive,' which included work from the 70s and then-recent stuff:

One of the cool things about Vega is that he was a bit older than a lot of the musicians in his general orbit; by the time Suicide released their first album, Vega was around 39 (his bandmate Martin Rev was around 30). No, that's not that old, but considering that punk is forever associated with youthful energy, it's…

So, here's a question for folks who more-closely follow international politics: back around the time of the U.S. presidential election, there was a lot of talk of the Western world being subsumed in a wave of racist right-wing nationalism (or so-called 'right-wing populism'). There was Brexit, and then there was…