With a Hey Nonny Nonny and a Hot Cha-Cha!

I watched Requiem while channel flipping on IFC. That over the top stormtrooper of a film sucked me in and kept me riveted to my sofa for the duration. You're spot-on re the ending—it was medieval in its intensity and sweep. The nurse comforting the maimed Leto had the power of the Pieta.

@Some guy: With you on Maetwan. Sayles painted the company gun thugs so blackly we all needed some extreme karmic payback.

Two More Little Gems….
"All Through the Night" and "Deadline, U.S.A" The first is a nifty little Runyon-inspired gangster picture of bookie Bogart vs. Nazi creeps in New York. The double-talk scene at the Nazi bund meeting with William Demarest is one of the funniest bits in his movies. The second is a great little…

After the spanking Nathan delivered to Garth, it should be an epic beating for FUTK.

Dwight was the bridge
When I first started returning to country after vilifying it for years, Dwight was the first artist that made it all cool again. I was in the Navy and I played Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., until the cassette broke and my shipmates were ready to chuck me off the fantail. I did have one drinking…

"Get It" is wonderful, but…
"Repeat When Necessary" is the real serious shit. Love songs about lonely monsters, full-throated rockabilly, and the best Costello cover ever.

I really, really wanted to enjoy Shooter, as I'm pretty much a constant reader of Stephen Hunter's novels. But the miscasting, poor research, and half-assed plotting made it too difficult.

Johnny
I swear I miss this man every day.

Hee Haw
I remember seeing kd on an episode of "Hee Haw" shortly after "Angel…" was released. She gave an absolutely blistering performance. The cast literally did not know what to do with her. I always considered this revenge for the show clowning up Buck Owens, one of the most brilliant performers in country.

Loathed This Dreck
The only film I ever shouted comments at during a screening. To this day, it fills me with a rage I usually reserve for repuglicans and bad pizza.

I'm sorry (I love Mr. O.), but wasn't he in "Balls of Fury?"

Absolutey. The only Moore Bond I could stomach was Live and Let Die. Still love the boat chase scenes and the redneck sheriff. Could have done without the barely disguised racism.

Agreed. Smith was a ham-handed a prose stylist who rarely, if ever, strayed from the stalwart, lantern-jawed, knight of space stereotypes. I remember kind of liking Spacehounds of the IPC, but I was about 11 at the time. There's an amusing passage in Heinlein's The Number of the Beast where the interdimensional…

…but the soda is cursed.

"Sticks" is a brilliant piece of work. As far at the other mythos-inspired works, I've also enjoyed Robert Bloch's "Notebook Found in a Deserted House", Stephen King's, "Crouch End", and T.E.D. Kine's "Black Man with a Horn."

Exactly what I was thinking. I bought "Wolf King" last year and enjoyed the hell out of it. First, Gary Glitter and "Rock 'n Roll, Part I" (with the lyrics). Now this. Just fukitall.

I would have to agree with your assessment, except for the scene where the psychiatrist watches a tape of Goldblum torturing and raping one of the children. Kathy Baker (as the shrink) pops in the videotape in a blithe manner, thinking she's seen worse. You only see her face begin to crumple into a mask of sheer…

…but then old Shep died.

Absolutely wonderful stuff. Boothe really punched up the blue-collar, fringe existence of Marlowe better than just about any other portrayal. It was also great seeing the adaptation of the little-read Marlowe shorts.