I've always been with you. And the times you've seen only one set of footprints, IT WAS THEN THAT I CARRIED YOU.

Underrated character actor
Noonan's presence in a film always makes me smile. I love the unpretentious way he describes choosing his roles: "I never really care what they want me to say, as long as it doesn't feel too stupid to say it." He made a similarly modest comment in an AMC interview I read last month:…

BOGUS.

I don't care if it's a film convention. A monster's a monster. Wolves are animals. If I want to see a wolf, I can go upstate. The same can't be said of monsters, unless you live in South Carolina.

I feel the same way, Louis, but I find that few people share such an opinion. Werewolves are *monsters*; they are not oversize-but-still-elegant wolves.

"Last night I caught my girlfriend with a wolf-boy."
"You bitter?"
"Yep. Bit him, too!"

Jorge, some of what you wrote reminds me a little of "Lonely Werewolf Girl" by Martin Millar, which I would definitely recommend over the Twilight books.

I think the same-name thing is weirder to outside observers. In high school, I had a crush on a girl named Cory and really didn't think anything of it. Most of us rarely, if ever, speak of ourselves by name, so referring to someone with the same name shouldn't feel odd, although of course it would seem so to others.

I'm thankful Roger Ebert gave this thing a sensibly negative review. He's one of my heroes, but he worries me sometimes, with his four-star love for movies like "Knowing," Robert Zemeckis's motion-capture abominations, etc. And his recent review of "The House of the Devil" was rightly positive but horribly written…

I just got the "Twilight" Rifftrax, and I'm looking forward to watching it. I watched a little late last night, wearing headphones, and thought I'd awaken the household laughing at the "Sit down and have some plaid!" line when Bella greets her dad in the kitchen for breakfast. Can't wait to see the "Yakety Sax" bit…

NO INCEST
Ah, somebody had to say it.

Either way, the usual list price for a Criterion movie is forty bucks. So far, the packaging for the Blu-rays has not come close to that of the DVDs. The DVD release of "The Man Who Fell to Earth," for instance, is two discs encased with a booklet, and then a special reprint of the novel, all housed in a nice…

Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski, Amelie Gillette, pretty much any female commenter here, et al.

Kubrick completists will probably want to hang on to their DVDs with unmatted full-screen prints, in addition to getting the widescreen Blu-rays.

Yeah … wow … especially considering Criterion prices Blu-rays exactly the same as their DVDs.

Late Start
This probably sounds lame, but I find an enormous amount of inspiration in people who get late starts at successful career endeavors. Writers like Wallace Stevens, Nabokov (more or less), and Raymond Carver, to name a few off the top of my head, or performers like Leonard Cohen, who was in his thirties…

Same here. E.g., watching "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" and thinking, Man, I feel kinda sorry for that asshole from "Dawn of the Dead."

I saw him on some morning show when "Twilight" came out. I think they had him walk outside, between roped-off swarms of screeching tweens, before entering the studio. The wind had distressed his carefully constructed "emo Donald Trump" nestwork of hair and revealed a surprisingly large bald spot.

Well, I for one can't wait to read the Meyer/Miller collaboration "No Joy in Bloodville."

I think Hardwicke must have especially regretted the whole sparkle-skin thing when the vampires had to leave rainy Forks, WA, for sunny Phoenix, AZ. During those scenes, all the interior shots are inexplicably dim and incongruous with bright exterior shots, like when the Cullens are near hotel-room windows with the…