Alright, Electric Dragon… You asked for it!

That's what they'll be saying if he doesn't wise up and admit that England's greatest Prime Minister was Lord Palmerston.

The "coldness" of the original movie ups its creep factor, I think. I particularly remember the casually menacing tone of those passing discussions of how the Soviets are making a major effort to train, and probably indoctrinate, their village full of weird, rapid-maturing psychic kids, so we'd better not let them get…

I also found Carolyn Jones pretty hot as Ophelia. I guess I like a variety of flavors of sexy-weird.

Sorry to get your hopes up, but I guess that's how the internet works…

Salo may "clearly signal that no viewer should enjoy themselves", but I think it's naive to think that a significant part of that film's viewership doesn't overlap with these.

So would this be the first film whose porn parody version is considered not just better, but more high-brow, than the original?

I'm not quite sure it was "straight-to-video". My impression was that Cella ran his "Moron Movies" as featurettes at local midnight movies and film festivals, usually just a couple at a showing, until Johnny Carson caught wind of them and showed some of the more TV-friendly ones on his show, the popularity of that…

letters sent between John F. Kennedy, Nikita Krushchev, and Fidel Castro
in 1962, in which the three men whiled away the breezy summer months
trying not to goad the other two into kicking off the end of the world.

Pretty close to the way Rob Halford came out to the rest of Judas Priest.

using what appear to be the last two landlines in Albuquerque, New Mexico

My hero will be the first one of these political sex scandal victims who just owns it and goes on the offensive — "Why the hell is this anybody else's business!" Obviously this gets a bit grayer for the sorts who've been leaning heavily on the "family values" thing, comparable to the way it did for Gary Hart after he…

I thought it was a "sweep" by the cops — rounding up everybody in the theater because, hey, it's easier and safer than going after actual criminals.

With this technology, he'll be coming back to clean house soon enough.

Almost as if we were selling them the rope they'll hang us with…

This sounds thoroughly awesome, and I only wish there was a road production that might come to Philadelphia.

Read on…

Personally, I always favored the "Chad Gambit".

That's closer to my perception, having been 19 when this came out, and having been a military buff since early grade school. I understood the dynamics of brinksmanship and never really feared any imminent all-out nuclear war. At worst I found menacing the prospect that if the nuclear powers remained in confrontation…

Will it ever ring?