It was glorious to experience it in 6-track stereo at the Mann Bruin by UCLA.

Indeed. So is The Malbinogion, the Welsh folk tales that inspired it

They've re-optioned the series multiple times. Whether a new film will come to fruition-who knows? Something Wicked This Way Comes is also on the remake docket

Black Cauldron isn't a bad film at all, and it's difficult to judge something that was so cruelly edited (over half a reel, which is an eternity in animation). Beautiful Elmer Bernstein score, design and use of the multi plane camera/65mm photography. Give me "failures" like this over shit like The Aristocats or Meet…

The Josh Karp book this is based on is terrific. Henry Beard, another Harvard Lampoon figure who partnered with Kenney on National Lampoon, is another fascinating figure. Karp also wrote a recent nonfiction tome on Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind that is a must-read.

Can't wait to read this. ET TU, BABE is a masterpiece

Well, the man hasn't aged a day since THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE, so, yeah, his career trajectory hasn't surprised me enormously.

Yep. It's an incredibly clever show. The bits at the beginning of each episode from the show-within-a-show are all spectacular.

One of the most disgusting aspects of this case was that DOZENS of Duke professors signed a petition preemptively condemning the 3 accused players. Among the professors who signed was Ariel Dorfman, author of Death & the Maiden, which deals with witch hunts and retribution. Incredible

All of Mullen's books are great. I love his Jane's Addiction oral biography WHORES, too. The Darby Crash/Germs book really illustrates how incredibly surreal Los Angeles was in the 70's-I used to live blocks away from the high school they formed at, which had an alternative school with in it that was rooted in…

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There's a whole book on Johnson and K Records you should read: http://www.amazon.com/Love-…

perhaps, but it still isn't as vibrant as Vancouver or Montreal

were they the ones who went to Japan before they'd ever recorded anything? I think it also inspired a recent film called Big in Japan.

An excellent book for sure, but Brendan Mullen's We Got the Neutron Bomb and Lexicon Devil: The Fast Life and Short Times of Darby Crash give an enormous amount of insight into the L.A. punk scenes that helped spawn the indie rock boon of the 80's.

Richard Fleischer, who was arguably always a b-movie director at heart, went from COMPULSION, 10 RILLINGTON PLACE and THE NARROW MARGIN to THE JAZZ SINGER '80, RED SONJA and MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY.

yep. His Alan Bennett adaptation for the BBC was ace, and HONKY TONK FREEWAY actually has some great stuff in it.

Get on that ASAP! It's always floored me, and shows his real gift for droll, dark humour.

I'd put FAMILY VIEWING just a hair above THE ADJUSTER.

That's a good one. Post-FALCON & THE SNOWMAN, he did make one more left-field masterstroke with COLD COMFORT FARM.