This is something I've wondered about digital cables, like HDMI. Is there any difference at all between the cheapest and the most expensive ones? Its just ones and zeros going through, so that means the cable either works or it doesn't work, right? I don't really know much about this, but I am certain that zeros…

Our stereo for the last ten years has only had the DVD player hooked into it, its been exclusively used for movies. Music I've been listening to only through computer speakers or headphones. But two weeks ago I cleared space on a little shelf for a charging station and I decided to drop a cable down from the stereo…

I'm not going to deny, it would have been a better movie if Carl Denham were a 25 foot tall big game hunter who captures an ordinary sized gorilla.

King Kong was referred to as a "giant terror gorilla" by Cooper during production. He was meant to be the stuff of nightmares! Cooper built the story on two images: a gorilla raping a woman (which was a popular idea among lowlives in those times), and then fighting a giant lizard to the death. He smashes up New York…

King Kong is the great threat in his stories, he should be unlikable just for all the innocent people he squishes. But he is always likeable, and certainly always more likeable than the ostensible leading man of his movies, Jack Driscoll. I've never entirely understood why the Jack Driscoll character keeps appearing…

Antonioni's I vinti tells three stories, each drawn from actual high profile murders in France, Italy and England that the opening narration describes as senseless thrill-kills by amoral postwar youth. Notwithstanding the actual events, the three stories that Antonioni tells are not that at all.

Diskwiss, you must need a compass to find your way around in there in that forest of stolen posts.

I'm sorry it was sad leaving your friends again, you have had to have too many goodbyes. Did you tell anyone your secret? How did you explain why you won't be back after the break? Has the shark tooth given you any shark themed outfit ideas?

I have only had Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries once before ever, years ago. We can't get it here, it was a thoughtful gift from America from someone who knows me well. So believe you me I gasped aloud in the store when I noticed the generic brand! I worried it would be repulsive because it was so cheap, but it was…

MOVIE SNACKS. I only have two movie nights a week so its important to get the snacks right. Nothing is worse than realising half way through a movie your snacks are wrong. How could I have chosen Hawkins Cheesies for Mutiny on the Bounty? Not preparing in advance, that's how. Obviously what I should have had is a…

It seems also he was one of the Roman soldiers in Pasolini's La Ricotta. I think he might be the fellow off to the side with the sword in one of the colour tableaux of Christ carried from the Cross. A shot with a lot of Millennial Pink.

What was the funniest moment in the movie for you? Its been a long time since I saw it, but I remember laughing uncontrollably at a scene where one of the thieves attempts to rob a bank and the clerk just casually lifts the gun out of his hand! Am I thinking of the same movie?

Diskwiss, what are you cooking in there? The internet doesn't usually smell like coconuts.

I hope Janine is right now researching water births because her opinion would be valuable! I don't know very much about it. Swimming babies are amazing though! I wish I could swim that well. Are there other pool activities you might do before then? Like water aerobics?

My movie nights this week were spent on I vinti and The Creature Walks Among Us, which was the third and last Black Lagoon movie. I'll give Creature credit for not unfolding as this sort of movie usually unfolds, although I suspect it was not to challenge its audience so much as they were making it up as they went…

Is Dirk Pitt the main character? Its hard to believe I'd forget a name like that. A name like that would usually keep me snickering until the end of the movie. Every time Dirk Pitt appeared on screen, I'd be saying "Dirk Pitt's here, he'll know what to do." And I'm not snarky by nature. Dirk Pitt, yikes.

I will listen to the score closely next time because I do plan to watch it again! Silly though the movie was, I don't remember it ever boring me. And I am curious whether or not they bothered to put stitches on Kong's chest from his surgery. I don't remember seeing them the first time! But then I don't remember…

Have you seen Raise the Titanic? Even though I only saw it maybe two years ago, I can't remember anything about the convoluted plot beyond what's in the title. Its not the sort of subject that needs to be complicated! I'd have just hired Christo and Jeanne-Claude to raise the boat in some whimsical way and made it a…

Don't forget The White Buffalo. Which is a beautiful movie! Don't let any fink tell you otherwise. Its a good western, too, I suppose, even if it didn't have that amazing mechanical bison. The snowy Great Plains under the stars are like something out of a dream! DeLaurentiis is not given enough credit for the…

Diskwiss, the power might go out any minute now so brace yourself for darkness.