I'm a Louisville native, and the tremendous outpouring of love, respect and admiration for Jason and his work - both here in town and stuff I've read online - has been pretty spectacular. I only met a few times (we had some mutual friends in the mid-90s) but he always struck me as a great guy and he was definitely an…

I'm a Louisville native, and the tremendous outpouring of love, respect and admiration for Jason and his work - both here in town and stuff I've read online - has been pretty spectacular. I only met a few times (we had some mutual friends in the mid-90s) but he always struck me as a great guy and he was definitely an…

Agreed. Fritz Lang's Rancho Notorious has some of the same weirdness, but it's never as jaw-droppingly lurid as Johnny Guitar.

Agreed. Fritz Lang's Rancho Notorious has some of the same weirdness, but it's never as jaw-droppingly lurid as Johnny Guitar.

I got the reference, but on first reading I saw "futuristic badgers that shot lasers" and imagined action-packed Friday nights watching LASER BADGER!

I got the reference, but on first reading I saw "futuristic badgers that shot lasers" and imagined action-packed Friday nights watching LASER BADGER!

While I have great love for the Melvins, I prefer this version:

While I have great love for the Melvins, I prefer this version:

I want that painted on the side of my van.

I want that painted on the side of my van.

SyFy presents "Hungry, Hungry Mega-Hippos vs. Crocosaurus Dentist!"

I join you in disagreement. Spirited Away is essential cinema - not just essential Ghibli - and superior to Howl's Moving Castle in every way.

Orangestoke: The Legend of Bill, Lord of the Monkeys, in lifelike 2-D!

It definitely depends on the material. For older movies (things actually shot on film) I think Blu-Ray looks "truer" and more cinematic, more like film, than any other format ever available. For newer stuff, shot digitally and with lots of CGI effects, I think Blu-Ray is actually too high-def. Images often look flat,…

The actual line is - "Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea!" Sorry, I had to correct you.

I hope they're extra double super careful with all the horses.

It was "The Wrath of Mom" actually, inspired by the second Star Trek movie.

But we'd have to defeat the Moon Men first, and America can't handle another war right now - even one so righteously justified by our manifest destiny to rule the Moon and liberate the God-fearing freedom-loving American that's inside every Moon Man and Moon Woman.

There appears to be some sort of series happening.

The "belly chainsaw" monster was Gigan, Megalon's partner in the tag team matchup against Godzilla and Jet Jaguar. Megalon was the giant bug, kind of like an armored cockroach. JJ was the Ultramanesque robot. I have a framed 8"x10" promo still of all four of them in costume that resides on my mantle.