Two glaring omissions:

I saw this movie when it was in theaters and the audience reacted nicely to the first segment. It had certain cheesy charm not unlike some of the segments in Romero's Creepshow. It's worth watching for the way Wings Hauser sells his racist cop character with such an over-the-top sense of glee (and yet we know he's…

Yes and she was only 35 when that movie was made. And Hoffman was like 29. Not exactly May-December. More like June-July.

There are two things about Mel Brooks that stand out for me. First, he gave David Lynch the director's chair for The Elephant Man when all he had done up to that time was Eraserhead.

The problem with St. Vincent is that the question "What if Laurie Anderson was hot and could shred" never required an answer.

The 1978 Sgt. Pepper movie was also a showcase for Pat Birch's choreography, and once again we see flashes of brilliance in an otherwise awful movie. You can almost see Steve Martin realizing that he can't push the Wild and Crazy Guy persona any further than this.

This was on cable for a long time in the late 90's / early 00's, and I honestly thought that Jack Black and Seth Green were pulling a joke on their fans by being in this movie:

Personally, I'd put her ahead of "Old Weird Bob".

"Do Trekkies ever come up to you and start geeking out over that Star Trek Voyager episode?"

You're right, my views are more shaped by films like "The Big Red ONE" and that's where my bias is.

The first few seasons kept a tight focus on the forensics, it was the 1970's version of CSI. Later seasons turned into polemics about drugs, college hazing, melodramatic social issue of the week stuff. It maintained a good level of quality through it's entire run, but you can also see many examples of Klugman's…

The meta-textual casting of Lee Marvin *was* the twist. He was always type-cast as the tough-guy, the alpha male. But in this case he knew the robot would destroy him. He goes into the ring anyway. But as a kid you don't know any of this. Only as an adult looking back do you see it.

Congress just approved funding for my heat-seeking MX moisture missile of love…

When I first saw this kid I wondered if he was consciously trying to channel Mason Reese…

And the music sounded like this, even though the keyboards looked liked they came from Radio Shack. This is also where the phrase "More Cowbell" came from.

The bad was very bad, and the good was very good. That was the 70's.

If we examine the video at the 1:15 mark, we see Alan Thicke with what we can assume are his two sons, Brennan (older, on the right) and Robin (younger, on the left). So this video is important for how it brings the banality of the Thicke family full circle.

Not one word about Charles Dance's performance. He had a few moments that were just plain brilliant, elevated the whole film.

I had that performance (Eliza Donner) pegged as coming from Lois Smith.

There was a TV movie about the Milgram Experiment, with none other than the Shat himself playing Milgram. It's pretty good if you can get past the 70's level production values. It's definitely is one of Shatner's better 70's performances.