I've never seen a new-tech 3D movie, so my opinion doesn't count for much, but I was of the impression (having read James Cameron's really interesting, though lengthy and techy, article on it in Variety last year) that the real benefit of new 3D movies wasn't in the poke-you-in-the-eye aspect, but rather the depth of…

Correction: her remarkable comeback thanks to the makers of Burn Notice coming to their senses and making her ditch that awful Lucky Charms accent. Seriously, it was so bad, it could have sunk the entire show.

Big fan of the book too. I wasn't bowled over by the trailer either, but I saw an actual scene from the movie and it played much, much better, so I'm not writing it off yet.

Probably the 70s/80s British show "Tales of the Unexpected", which, as you'd imagine, was an anthology series featuring tales with unexpected endings (although not so unexpected given the title).
It was kinda befor my time, but Dahl wrote a good few of the episodes I think.

I seem to recall this conversation from before. I'm pretty sure that the brilliant Dark Water (the original of course) was a PG-13.
Also, I've never seen Paperhouse. I thought Rose's direction of Candyman was really effective, but I never got around to Paperhouse.

Ellie, it's probably for the best not talking to other Buffy fans. Some of them are just tooo crazy.

mbs, it was Emmanuelle Beart in Mission Impossible.

@ Lovecraft, like it or not (and I loved it… actually managed to see it at the cinema the one week it was actually on - yay for me), I don't think you can apply the term "bland" to it.

Aren't mirror versions of people supposed to have goatees?

If you post "Candyman" five times, he posts a response calling you a douche.

Furry kangaroo thingy - native to the ice world of Hoth… which incidentally, contains no Rebel bases, no sirree.

Right with you Joanne (and how do you know where I keep my scripts, may I ask?).

It is good. Flawed (Dino's right to call attention to the editing), but the story's a good one.

Stardust wasn't at all bad. It's tonally nothing like the book, but it has a nice 80s kids fantasy movie feel to it, in that it's not trying to be epic all the time, and is willing to occasionally scare the kiddywinks by doing something nasty.

The story, as told by him, is that his wife wanted to move to the US (or is American, I forget which) and he agreed, on the proviso that she could find an Addams Family style house for them to live in.

Capitalist Pig, I've heard this "Tommy Lee Jones is the narrator therefore he's the central character" thing before, but I never bought into it. I'm sure the whole thing plays rather less jarring in the book than the film. Still, I think in that last act, it does become entirely a different sort of movie, which is…

Nathan, Jones' deep, soothing voice has a deep, calming effect on all of Mother Earth's creatures. What I'm saying is that he can pretty much pick and choose.

Even if this were true (and I doubt it), it's hardly a controversy. It's not as if Penn's a meek little lamb who doesn't run his mouth at every opportunity.

Duck Season!

Heavenly Creatures is an excellent movie, but the slide into this runaway fantasy life is a slow one, so yeah, no gear shifts. Still worth mentioning, if only 'cause the film doesn't pop up in comments very often.