I just remembered that I haven't listed to The Coast Is Never Clear in ages. I should remedy that right now.

"Besides being a superb action movie and a clever satire of cop and
science-fiction movies, it’s also a surprisingly autobiographical
statement from Stallone about his life and career."

"Yo… who the fuck brought me this chocolate shit, man? I said a banana nutriment, man. You all heard the fuck I said… I gave you. I wrote it on the fuckin' paper, man. You all motherfuckers always fuck around and forgettin' something and shit. Smart dumb n——s and shit, runnin' around here and shit…"

Gus is great and all, but he'll always be Agent Mike Giardello to me. 

Your heart?

I think the fact that he made the effort nonetheless speaks very well of him.

Stop trying to make Lana Del Rey happen, Internet.

Red Tornado as played by the aforementioned Powers Boothe (and a lot of distortion added in post-production)!

Rewatching the entire show this year, I was surprised by how ribald it is throughout the run. Timm and Co. clearly didn't think of this as "just a kids' show."

Credit where it's due: the hovercraft looks just like the one I had when I was ten!

I'm apparently alone in liking Logan, but that might have been influenced by the fact that Jess was pretty much gone by that point and the writers seemed to develop an irrational and intense hatred for Dean. After the fifth or sixth season, he seemed to get meaner and stupider with every appearance.

So, no mention of how this compares with the 1979 BBC miniseries with Alec Guiness? Because the miniseries is so, so good, and as much as I adore and respect Gary Oldman, he's got some mighty big shoes to fill here.

Oh, man. One of my favorites. I still can't believe how dark it is. How many other kids' cartoons have the villain ask the hero to euthanize him? 

Weird. I was listening to Underwater Moonlight when I clicked over to the AV Club. MUSICAL SERENDIPITY MY FRIENDS.

It's kind of esoteric, but I adore "She Wears My Hair" from the expanded edition of Underwater Moonlight that Matador put out 10 years ago.

What about Reg E. Cathey as Carcetti's adviser on The Wire? 

Yeah, I did a phone interview with him during the Isolation Drills tour; he was laid-back, funny, and a pleasure to talk to. 

I don't know, if nothing else the look of the film inspired the next 15 years of Batman comics and movies, especially the Art Deco look of B:TAS. For that alone, we should be grateful. 

One of Sayles' most memorable lines of dialogue, for sure:

Harry Potter wasn't so much a movie series as an extremely elaborate welfare program for every single fucking actor in the UK.