"he's no Rutger Hauer"

Comcast On Demand is not bad for free stuff—but I'm not going to pay $9.99 for a movie I can't keep and probably won't be letter-boxed. C'mon Comcast—who do you think you are—AMC?

I really liked 'Creep'—even though it was kind of 'Alien' on the Undergound, and was sort of a quasi-remake of an older British Horror movie about a family of cannibals that live in a collapsed subway station. It was suitably claustrophobic and unfolded in a realtime logical way that you don't expect from what is an…

The Pitch went like this:
It's like 'Cloverfield' meets 'Red Dawn'!

The main problem with the recent 'Wolf Man' (it really should be two words as in the original—it's not a Jewish surname) is that it relied on the old trademarked flat-faced creature design—which was trumped forever by Rick Baker's effects in 'American Werewolf in London' and in 'The Howling' Even that movie with…

Lesbian breakups are the worst
Any word on who Lillith is dating these days?

It is NOT silly. I appreciate that Larry Indiana's position is bolstered with actual arguments, but I counter that the score is definitely 80's, as is the overall tone, which is, as I said before—sunny and morally unambiguous in the sense that the good guys are always uncorruptable, just and justified—consider that…

DeDalma's 'Untouchables'
It is such an 80's movie—so sunny and upbeat even as it takes the usual trappings of gang war and makes heroes of the cops—a rarity in films about the prohibition period (even though it is theoretically adapted from the old TV show). And the score is the most 80's thing Ennio Morricone ever…

Split Screen
I wish I could find some visual means of communicating my ambivalence toward DePalma's signature cinematic gimmick.

Not such a very pretty penny mizerock:

'Totally Krossed Out' is an example of how even mediocre Pop Hip Hop had killer thick sample-heavy production in the Golden Age. Most acts literally could not afford to make that album today, and that's even if you throw in the vocals for free.

I've said it before—
Time Makes Moe Roccas of Us All

I know exactly the type that Snoop is. My first year teaching in the DC area was in a charter school that handled primarily troubled students from Southeast and those who were kicked out of Ballou (which DC people may know from the nightly news). We had fights everyday—but the main problem we faced was the female…

Clatrap is right—she's the real deal. That's how she landed the role, and that's why there aren't a whole lot of other parts out there for her.

I forget the exact line but my favorite Snoopism was when Bunk was hassling her on the street she asked him something about what was he doing and he said "Thinking about pussy" and Snoop said "Me too." Commentary said it was an adlib on both parts. That's how I want to remember Snoop. That and the hardware store.

It's way past the time when anyone would notice—and how soon we forget—but I realized after I posted above that I said Dan Rather when I meant Mike Wallace.

It's clear that Spike has no feel for Punk—So there's one Black director's poor attempt at depicting a White subculture compared to how many in the other direction? At least he tried. And by the way, Talking Heads was included. That movie was flawed, but it had too great set pieces in it—the one where the killing is…

I disagree—for a lot of reasons The Damned's first record is a better document of the spirit of Punk in '77 than almost any other except Buzzcock's 'Spiral Scratch'—and it holds up better than most—primarily because it (like 'Spiral Scratch') doesn't date itself with timely political assertions. When I want to define…

I think the misperception is that 1977 is the year where Rock music became fully White—at least in the sense that the programmers of radio who began to consolidate the formatting that would influence the rest of the decade and into the present were creating the pigeonholes (racial and otherwise) that would dictate how…

late to the show
I like that there is some acknowledgement of the year in Funk, but it feels like a real afterthought. I mean to suggest that The Commodores—who were actually starting to drift at that point—Earth Wind & Fire and Parliament Funkadelic were mutations of disco and not in some sense the other way around…