"This is a poor shooting-iron for a man to have about him—it might do for young men to 'tote' in a settlement, but it is of no use in the woods—no more than a shot-gun." -The Western Souvenir, a Christmas and New Year's Gift for 1829

There's some more history behind Doom95: the first porting team was led by Gabe Newell and it originally ran on Windows 3.1. MS decided it would serve better as a showcase for Windows 95 and had it moved over to the DirectX team. Given that Doom95 was considered a showcase precisely because Win3.1 was kind of a shit…

This is (or at least was) pretty common in Asia. There's still a few theaters in Taiwan that do it. The most famous is the Chuan Mei Theater in Tainan, where one guy has been at it for 40+ years:

I did miss some things, but not quite the way you have it. If you go by reports from the Chinese media, Zhang's original cut actually ran 116 minutes. This cut was passed by the Film Bureau and had some advance screenings in Beijing. At around the same time (i.e., after the film was complete but before it opened in…

Why "WHITEY"? Was it an acronym?

Sorry, but I think Gremlins 2 did a more entertaining job of poking holes in the "after midnight" rule:

This might be a minority opinion, but the reveal of the shields spelling out MALDEN kills me stone dead every time. I mean literally, I'm dead.

Filmart still exists too, according to the Hong Kong Companies Registry. You can also download a bunch of documents from their website (including annual returns from 1983 to last year), but they'll run you about three bucks a pop.

The French names might be Quebec spilling over in to Maine, if I had to guess.

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Pretty sure Wolverine and Beast were both killed in the Here Comes Tomorrow timeline. Beast was straight-up decapitated, though in comics that's a curable condition.

We've known for at least a year that this was going to be the first Phase 3 film. If Wright ever believed for a second that this was going to be a standalone thing, he has to be the most naive person in the universe. But I doubt he ever believed that. The issue might've been how it set up another Phase 3 film, but not…

Cigarettes yes, but I'm more of a one-night-stand kind of guy

The rumored casting of Allen and Jim Carrey as the conjoined twins in Stuck on You would've been something for the ages. Instead we got Damon and Kinnear.

post deleted, got confused by which series we were talking about :(

Sort of. They set up 16mm cameras at the scene and then used a computer program to determine a randomized offset. So all the camera angles seem a little bit "off" and different takes have slightly different angles. The program also determined the exposure, so you get a lot of what appears to be mismatched lighting…

Those multi-region-enabled types out there might want to check out the surprisingly cheap Danish DVD, which has English subtitles on everything. The highlight (besides the movie itself) is a feature-length making-of where von Trier spends about as much time whining as he does directing (think a kid at recess…

It's interesting to note that Albinus' character in The Boss of It All is also named Stoffer. He's a lot more amiable in that one, so it's probably a stretch to say they're the exact same character, but he has the same over-the-top commitment to "the performance."

This is actually the only Dogme film I ever saw where the director is completely unmentioned in the credits—the others credit the director in some other capacity (screenwriter, camera operator, producer, etc.), and julien donkey-boy has a title card that just says "harmony korine," but von Trier's name doesn't appear…

I'm also pretty convinced that most people took Antichrist more seriously than von Trier did. Granted a lot of it comes off as schoolboyish "look at what I can get away with" business, which is probably out in full force in Nymphomaniac, but stuff like the the talking fox or "There's no such constellation" or even the…