I'm with you, Baxter. Modern Times is still hilarious after all these years, but City Lights just left me kind of meh. Lights may have more of a 'plot', but I'd argue Times is better organized thematically (the horrors of technology, the dehumanization wrought by modernity, the struggle between the unions and the…

Metropolis, Modern Times, Night of the Hunter
Plus Sherlock Jr and The Twilight Zone - could this be the best black & white Blu-ray release day ever?

Man, I'm late to this discussion…

Don - I never did get around to playing Deus Ex, so I guess I missed out there. Ah well, add it to the list…

Between summer '89's License to Kill and '95's Goldeneye, the Wall came down and the Cold War ended. The plot of Goldeneye (the movie) was quite clever and effective in how bridged Bond between two eras.

I've probably played Goldeneye more than any other game, though of course haven't picked it up in years. I'm inclined to think, however, that the nay-sayers are being a little dismissive.

I saw Weird Al a few years back. The dude freaking brings it. Played almost all his hits, for at least 2 1/2 hours, costume changes between nearly every song. Enjoy the show, Sean!

Lobster Man from Mars
A few days too late to post this on the page about unconventional commentary tracks, I just finished watching a video commentary with George Takei on the DVD for Lobster Man from Mars. His only tenuous link to the movie's production is that it recycled a few effects from Star Trek that the studio…

McCandless didn't exist, right? A poetry-quoting, Thoreau-idealizing academically-successful history and anthropology double-major who grew up in an affluent home and rejected mainstream society to go wander off in Palin country with no map / compass / useful outdoors skills to slowly, needlessly-preventably starve to…

The great thing about technology is that now, pretty much everyone in the first world has the opportunity to make something and expose it to a worldwide audience, if they're able to invest the time. In fact, people have much greater opportunity to do this than they ever had.

This is what, like the sixth time we've had this conversation on this site in as many weeks? Ease up on the Acoustician-bashing; he holds a reasonable viewpoint. The old ways of distribution are dead, we're all going to have to deal with it in the ways we listen to music in the future. Most musicians I know…

"Dennis is now on a treadmill of making movies that are garbage."
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Ditto on David Kalat - he's the first person I think of for scholarly commentary done well. I listened to all four-ish hours of his commentary for the first Dr. Mabuse film. Engaging stuff that put the film in context, vividly explained the horrors of Weimar Republic inflation, etc.

I think you and I, Mr. Sherbert, have similar taste in horror comedies. Fright Night's a classic, and People Under the Stairs is massively underrated - a clever riff on fairy tales and S&M version of Home Alone, fully committed to its insanity.

I'd never heard of finding the printed variety in the woods, but would occasionally stumble across the occasional 'gigantic roadside bra.'

Yeah, I grew up in a town a tenth the population of Stratford, and live in one that's only marginally larger than where I grew up. Between that and making the claims of 'he's just like us' and 'he's doing it all on his own,' I think that minute-and-a-half condensation of the lies that are the Bieber Mythos just pushed…

I can understand hating the Cult of Burton, but movies like Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, and Nightmare are brilliant, amazingly creative and pretty dang re-watchable. I've shown Nightmare to some friends who'd never seen it that had lukewarm reactions I just don't understand, because despite the obnoxiousness of the tattoos…

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Robocalypse

Around 2005, I re-watched the series from start to finish off-and-on, finally finishing season 9 a few months ago. Squeeze is a great episode to start with, but I think starting way back with the Pilot is a bad way to get hooked. Watch a few well-regarded episodes from the middle (like Pusher), then go back and watch…

Back in college, I was looking for movies to show for a film group, and there was this girl I knew who was born in Turkey, but grew up in Germany, who recommended Midnight Express. She apparently liked the movie a lot. To this day I haven't seen it, but I thought it was quite odd that of all the movies to recommend,…