Remember when you had to find porno mags in the woods?

I've always been underwhelmed by Blade Runner. Visually it's been vastly influential of course but I feel that if a movie needs to be tweaked that much & have so many different re-edited versions, then the filmmaker simply didn't make it right in the first place.

If he can make it to the bathroom in time there's some nice Jon Hamm's John Ham in there.

Wow, I had no interest in seeing HOSTEL 2 (I liked HOSTEL just okay) but if it's more Italian giallo than J-horror twitch, count me in.

There's a great on-set anecdote about the tension between Price and 24-year-old director Michael Reeves. Reeves kept telling Price to tone down the hamming-up he was wont to do, and Price finally got peeved and snapped something like, "Don't tell me how to act, young man, I've acted in over 100 films! What have you…

The original version of the joke is about Chrissie Watkins, the first victim in Jaws. It killed on a '70s playground.

Do their parents know that they're Ramones ugly?!

Benecio and Hopkins are trying with the pretty cool-looking remake of 1941's Wolf Man.

Yeah, missed it, that's just right. The only truly enjoyable part of the movie is where Snyder took a little liberty: the opening credits. He seemed to be having fun there, rather than simply recreating each comic panel.

Isn't the punk club that Diane Wiest takes Woody to in Hannah & Her Sisters CBGBs? I'm pretty sure it is.

Crash both book and film are awesome. I saw it three times in the theater and each time people walked out. Fuck them. Would love a Criterion of it. Even its opening credits—and that Howard Shore score!—are masterful.

I think Straub suffers from the same problems King does, that is, a tendency to overwrite everything. I really liked Ghost Story but it's been 20 years since I read it; everything else I've tried of his—Floating Dragon, Koko, Shadowland, Julia—will have riveting moments but I always drift off and don't finish them.…

"I can hear my wife as I write this, in the next room, crying. She thinks I was with another woman last night.

That's what Capote said about Kerouac: "That's not writing, that's typing."

JAWS!

I'd vote his best book is Danse Macabre. Love to see a follow-up. To paraphrase Springsteen, I learned more from that 300-page book, baby, than I ever learned in school.

I have read literally hundreds of horror novels & stories, and seen as many horror movies, since I was a kid and none of them—NONE—has ever made me feel *physical fear* like 'Salem's Lot and Pet Sematary did.

I was obsessed with King's work throughout my teens, but once I started reading better writers I had difficulty reading his stuff. The last new novel of King's I read was The Dark Half in '89, and the handful of short stories I've read that he's done since then, in Everything's Eventual, didn't do much for me.

Strummer got accused of being a supporter of Italian terrorists when he wore that BRIGADE ROSSE t-shirt, but he said he'd thought it was a pizza restaurant.

Love that book, even more than the "official" Clash bios Last Gang in Town and Passion is a Fashion.