Did you know he made movies in the 1970s?! I didn't even know they MADE movies in the 1970s!!!!

I don't know if there's an actor I was ever more obsessed with than Gary Oldman back in the late '80s/early '90s. That Sid Vicious/Lee Harvey Oswald/Dracula kick was almost too good to be true. I remember renting CHATAHOOCHIE, TRACK 29, PRICK UP YOUR EARS, ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN, STATE OF GRACE all on VHS and man…

Is that Steve-O in a little girl's dress?

The dream of the '90s is alive.

I saw NIGHT & THE CITY in the theaters. So yeah.

So: this article should be on Slate then.

I worked with a couple guys in a restaurant kitchen way back when and they liked LB. When HOT DOG-FLAVORED WATER came out they played it a lot and at first I was like "Oh god please no" but then what really struck me about it wasn't that the music was so god-awful horrendous but that is was so utterly and completely…

Who walks around outside in socks?! Good God that might be the grossest thing about the Chili Peppers these days.

You know, I've long wondered how many SEINFELD viewers had no idea they were parodying a real catalog. The *only* way I knew it was real was from having a boss in the late '80s who subscribed to the catalog—solely bc he thought the descriptions were so funny. They were too dry for my teenage self, but it sure was…

After that maybe STREETS OF FIRE. Man when that came out it looked like it was trying too hard to be stylish—is it the '50s or the future?!—but I watched it on Netflix four or five years ago and DAMN what fun.

So brilliant.

*passes out*

Too on the nose.

Love this flick (the Chabon novel is good too)! And that Dylan song, oh man. The video for it is kinda hilarious, edited to look like he's hanging out with Tobey Maguire, Robert Downey Jr, and Katie Holmes ("Some things are too hot to touch").

Perfect. The original JAWS trailer is aces too: "It is as if God… created the Devil… and gave him… JAWS."

"Abandoned Love."

I watched the first episode and was like, "Nah, it's just what I thought it would be and that's not my thing." Medieval fantasy is a big no, no matter how "good" it's supposed to be. If there are castles there better be a Dracula or Dr. Frankenstein, if there are giant reptiles they better be dinosaurs, and swords?…

Wow, I agree completely! I was pretty let down with MALTESE, and I feel like every film noir needs at least one smoking hot babe who's bad news, and Mary Astor just ain't it.

Yeah I love that one and EYES WIDE SHUT too!

Love those three King books you mention and I agree that DARK TOWER gets way too much love, and by people who've never read his horror fiction. I have a nostalgic affection for his '70s/'80s works but haven't read any of his output since '89. Lovecraft and Matheson are indeed more influential and King would probably…