I remember seeing it in a crowded theater, and that shot got one of the biggest laughs in the whole movie.

I remember seeing it in a crowded theater when it came out, and that got one of the biggest laughs in the whole movie.

Pretty sure this was made during the period when Joe Dante and Allan Arkush were putting together Corman's ad campaigns, which would explain "buy a ticket and I come free"—if only more movies had such classy taglines.

Amen to The Bob Newhart Show, and especially that episode.  Dave Death!

Track Of The Moon Beast is definitely one of the best from the Sci-Fi era—maybe the only one in which the quality of the sketches matched the riffing.  Crow's breakdown after the recreation of the "scary" joke in the movie is my favorite Bill Corbett moment.

Next week on Mitchell—the cloverleaf!

Let me add to the count as well.  These reviews are a blast.

Sweeney Todd was an adaptation, and was quite good.  Corpse Bride was an original, and it sucked.  Otherwise, you may be on to something.

Nope, this is barely old enough to vote Stone, married to recording artist Iyaz, who has appeared on Hannah Montana and written material for Demi Lovato.  Apparently the Disney sitcom farm is arranging marriages now.

Say what you will about Selena Gomez, but if I had some sort of inappropriate lusting feelings for an under-aged actress on this show (and I'm not admitting anything), it would definitely be for Jennifer Stone, who plays Gomez's ditsy bestest pal.

Well, and also The Avengers.  But I still watched it!

It has always been my belief that anything with Jim Broadbent is automatically worth seeing.  This may force me to change that rule.

Santa Claus Conquers The Martians has the most inspired host segments (the E-Z Bake Foundry makes me laugh every time) while Santa Claus is the weirder, funnier movie.  Both are an essential part of any holiday!

Similar things have been said before, but I just wanted to give a big thanks to Erik Adams for these write-ups.  They're enormously entertaining, full of obvious love and respect, but very attuned to the strengths AND weaknesses of Henson's work.  Great job, sir!

You can't take Nolte seriously?  Who'll Stop The Rain, North Dallas Forty, Under Fire, Q & A, Mother Night, Affliction, The Thin Red Line—nothing in there worth taking seriously?

The most painful part of that book is how DePalma's balls are cut off (metaphorically speaking) early in the process, and he doesn't even seem to realize it. 

Warren Zevon's The Wind.  An uneven album, but considering the circumstances, all its flaws can be forgiven.

True, but they're mostly disguised as genre pieces—Innerspace was promoted as science fiction, and as crazy as Gremlins 2 is, it was still a sequel to a Spielberg produced critter movie.  The Burbs is one of his few movies that was actually sold as a straight-ahead comedy, and it unfortunately is one of his most…

True, but at least in the seventies and early eighties, blockbusters were interspersed with smaller-budgeted movies that didn't have to live and die by their opening weekend grosses.  As long as they could earn back their modest costs, studios were happy to make them. 

I would imagine one of the problems is being typed as a "horror director" in the first place.  One of my favorite Romero films is Knightriders, but he can't get financing for something personal, so it's back to cranking out some more zombie crap.  Carpenter has been talking since Halloween's initial release about…