After we moved into our house and I started making jokes about the little door at the base of the chimney in our basement, my ex-wife never failed to leave the light on when she went upstairs after being in the basement.  That movie traumatized her.

It can be very effectively creepy when miniature monsters are played by actual actors.  In addition to the DBAOTD TV movie, I'm thinking of the troll from Cat's Eye and the little demons from The Gate.

I thought Dagon was quite good.  And I would have just given in and banged ol' tentacle legs.

::tosses aside apple:: Trayf!

I agree, but I think it's a credit to the film that I wasn't disappointed by the "real-world" story, even if the fantasy sequences were more limited than anticipated.

I get genuinely angry when I read news of "Pacific Rim" and I'm reminded of "Mountains of Madness" getting axed.  We're missing out on what would have likely been the best reflection of Lovecraft ever adapted into film.

I recommend watching her Craig Ferguson interviews on YouTube.  The ebullient Scottish adorableness reaches ridiculous levels.

I thought the same thing.  You think there's even a flicker of self-awareness in his mind here?

I think the mistake was just trying to make Yoda look younger in "Phantom Menace," which was silly and unnecessary, since audiences already thought of him as ageless and iconic.

I hate Plinkett's "wacky" framing-device nonsense, but I think his criticism is spot-on.  His analysis of character (or complete lack thereof) in "Phantom Menace" is simple but pretty brilliant — something any creative person working in any medium should bear in mind while creating characters.

Wait, Wickett was female and a poor parent?  I'm confused.

I'm not one to get particularly nostalgic about the '80s, but at least fun, trashy movies were actually fun and trashy.  Now even something R-rated like this Fright Night remake is full of PG-13 sexlessness and CGI effects that have no perceptible connection to the human body.

David Tennant does as well as he can with the character as it's written, but unfortunately he's required to impart his own backstory, which is as hackneyed as you can imagine.  Otherwise, he's terrific when he's making wearily fey wisecracks and scratching his crotch in his leather pants.  There's none of the…

Right, the apes just want to be free, until, presumably, humans try to tranquilize and capture them in the Muir Woods, but maybe by then the apes will have built an Ewok-style village there, complete with branch-and-vine catapults, swinging redwood-log battering rams, etc.

I'd noticed that it was available on Netflix Instant, but I hadn't heard of it and was going to pass it up on the basis of the cheesiness of the cover art.  Now I'll definitely check it out, though.

Whoa, don't kick me with your sandal or hit me with your bumbershoot.

Well, fuck.  I need to get used to these new comments, I guess.

I think the older he gets, the more he looks like Burt Lahr.

Would you prefer this sort of listening party?

I think the older he gets, the more he looks like Burt Lahr.