Go to hulu and look at their copy of The General. It is a completely different cut from the one that's been circulating elsewhere. It's terrible; all the great gags, stunts and the concept (see Kerr's The Silent Clowns) have been miscut and fouled up. I wonder if this is the version that was shown and didn't make nay…

*yawn* another boring good guys versus bad guys Star Trek movie.  The trouble with this franchise is that no one not even Gene Rodenberry, realized what it meant that there was a Federation of planets holding different forms of intelligent life, that there was a fleet of expensive huge starships  flying around solving…

"A young doctor". Who has already been a mafia hit man - while going to medical school? During his training period? Does he have a portrait of himself in his apartment that ages while he doesn't?

This reflects Fox's desperation for novelty or something that will attract the avclub audience, which it expects will spend money on the products mentioned in the advertisements surrounding Mr. Band's "product". Expect him to burn out and crash real soon now.

"The Snowman" is actually the weakest of the series. Jo Nesbo is an ex-rock star who got into writing. It seems as if his publisher is pushing him to add a "Silence of the Lambs" style serial killer character to his books who the detective chases through book after book. In this the killer builds a snowman from the…

There's already been a book about the young Leonardo by Brian Clemens.
 Find an art book about Leonardo and they'll probably show you portraits of the young Leonardo painted by his teachers when he was an apprentice Yes, he was a "hottie" then..

How Very Interesting
R.I.P.D. has the exact same plot as the latest book by Jim Butcher, Ghost Story. Harry Dresden, killed at the end of the last book, is compelled by a group of dead policemen to find the person who killed him. Or else, etc.
Somebody needs to sue somebody, don't know who is who.

Actually the Marx Brothers rehearsed that stateroom scene in vaudeville time and again before it was shot. That's why it's so good-it was tested before the most demanding audiences of all.

If anyone wants to hear Preservation Hall sounds, Fantasy owns the Riverside catalog, which has several recordings of the people mentioned in the piece, including Sweet Emma Barrett, who used to wear bells on her ankles to keep the beat. It's called "The Sound of New Orleans" recordings. There also used to be a boxed…

Annette has/had ALS and if she's not succumbed to it yet, she will soon. Just think she was the first TV sex object (on the Micky Mouse Club) for young men and now….

Interesting simplification
As sequel has followed sequel and creator after creator has been thrown into the mix, including improvising actors, the movie becomes more and more like the theme park ride it was based on.
If Disney were really daring (and cynical) it could throw away the animated dolls of the ride and…

Of course, it doesn't end with the Flintstones. The Flintstones was a cartoon version of "The Honeymooners".

Actually we're gasoline junkies tied for our fix to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies. Where do you think the Afghan gunsels seen in the Frontline show get their pay and how to they pay for their weapons? Who funds all the madrassas? Saudi Arabia and all the Gulf monarchies. (and a few bank robberies in Pakistan…

Why there are no chickens or dogs in real hospitals
This is because real hospitals are having profound problems with infections killing patients who didn't have them when they came in. Animals are dirty and they shit everywhere, so no real doctor in his right mind would bring one into the hospital.
This part of the…

A star is born again
In an adjoining item , it is bemoaned that the star system of Hollywood is dead.This is correct, but the reason is that Hollywood is rushing from You Tube sensation to gossip subject to popular rumor, looking for a new subject for a movie. Fred's just the latest one to surface. "Stars" used to…

reasons this wil lbe a disaster
1. three names on the screenplay credit, including the director. too many hands….
2. The big debates in those days were over religion, which in those days was about power-state power or the power of the pope. Plays and playwriters existed only on the support of a lord or royal, and had…

There was actually an episode of the ancient TV show "The Time Tunnel" in which the time travelers went to the Old West and helped the locals deal with the landing of the flying saucer. You can see it on HULU (maybe).

In the track down column: The Clown on Atlantic, Mingus Three with Danny Richmond and Hampton Hawes,

if Disney thought about it for a moment, they would realize that they had the idea of a fabulous romance comedy about two people standing in line for a Disneyland attraction staring them in the face all along. They could do it any way they liked-widower/widow, two young people, whatever, each with young…

You have Dr. Silicone to thank for those. The original Christina was not so well endowed. The pictures/videos which prove this have been carefully removed from the internet long since.