Jackie Harvey works at People too?

Lucius Shepard's novel LIFE DURING WARTIME remains one of my favorite reading experiences of my life! God what a grand and wonderful novel.

For me usually the Police show up after Metallica plays but Bruce can calm them down and it's all cool.

Have you seen them singing "Pat's Chili Dogs"?

Found this a few years back, and as I was an '80s metal kid, I had to laugh! What you don't know when you're 14…

Over the years I've seen MANHUNTER a few times and like it fine, but nothing will ever convince me it's better than the original Thomas Harris novel RED DRAGON (or even better than Demme's adaptation of SILENCE, which might even be a better book than RD. And ignore all Harris Lector books but these first two). The…

Kids today. All I had in starting out as a cinephile in 1989 were old issues of Premiere and Film Comment and a West Coast Video rental card.

"My favorite movies are Citizen Kane and Boondock Saints."

Totally true! I read Rolling Stone mag pretty regularly as a teen in the mid-'80s, and never once did they review the metal/hard rock albums I, and millions of others, were buying and listening to. They were too busy putting Michael J. Fox, Phil Collins, Tom Cruise, and Huey Lewis on their covers while gushing over…

"Winsome"?

The movie left out so many good parts of Bateman's craziness in the book: his fear that a park bench is following him through the city; watching Oprah on TV interview a lone Cheerio on a chair; and oh yeah, stabbing a child to death at the Central Park Zoo when the mother isn't looking.

The original James Caan version is streaming on Netflix now and is very much worth a watch if you dig smart, tough 1970s character studies.

Billy Joel (and John Cougar Mellencamp and Springsteen's 'Born in the USA' LP) were the only non-metal/non-punk artists I listened to in the mid to late 1980s. Nobody made fun of me—oh, right, that's because I didn't tell anybody. I still listen to them today, with varying degrees of cringing to no cringing…

I like how he does that little Buddy Holly "oh-ho-ho" before singing, well, "Buddy Holly." And the part before that, when he shouts "Starkweather homicide/Children of Thalidomide"? That's like a double-bill of awesome.

Luke is unknowingly watching the capture of Leia's blockade runner. Scenes like this, shot but edited from the final film, can be found in the ghost-written-by-Alan-Dean-Foster novelization, since it was based on early Lucas scripts.

Jack Ketchum's novel about this crime, "The Girl Next Door," is one of the most unforgiving and brutal books I've ever read. But it's written so well you can't stop reading. He's fictionalized some of it, yes (kinda like what Ellroy did with "The Black Dahlia"), but he doesn't mute the horror. You really wanna be…

Enjoyed the first season, but a few eps into the second, after one too many of those tropes thrown against the wall, my girlfriend and I looked at each other and said at the same time, "Are you still into this? Because I think it's kinda bullshit." And we stopped watching. Everything I've read and seen about the show…

I felt like this article was just getting started when it ended.

Love that the AV Club is talking Bogart, Richard Stark, and Easy Rawlins all in one week!

Yes! And oh my god, that opening scene.