This reminds me of an attitude I come across often: “Why should I be good to someone if they’re not good to me?” If people expect to be rewarded for being a decent person, they’ve kind of missed the point.

(further SPOILERS) And because his Christianity is infected with pride, Satan makes good points. He is a rather silly, pompous fellow, and it might be better to time travel and become a Beatnik.

While charity is hard, the novice priest whom Simon hectors and berates actually seems to make it work with the unwashed - especially the coarse, small-statured herder. Simon’s willful separation diminishes his ability to serve humanity on a useful level, which is why [SPOILER] he’s so easily whisked away by Satan at…

DeMille’s sentimentality is one of his charms, for sure. His version of Barabbas simply only looked like he needed a good meal.

I need one of those for all the spiders I’ve found in my house recently. And for june bugs, which I am lowkey petrified of. Like they crunch? When you step on them??? And, to add insult to injury, they FLY and can also CURL AROUND YOUR TOES if they feel like it??? No.

Thank you for not killing the bee.

Beavers are my comrades. Perhaps you have heard of Hockomock Swamp, the baleful bog at the heart of the Bridgewater Triangle, paranormal hotspot. It is tenebrous with spirits — wendigos, thunderbirds, sasquatches, ghosts, etc. You can thank your local beavers for creating a similar environment in your backyard.…

The original Brendan Fraser Mummy movie is a lot of fun. It was more Indiana Jones then classic Mummy stuff but it’s worth a watch. The sequels are not.

The Ghoul is on youtube, so I’ll check it out. Thesiger again and a young Ralph Richardson, as well! Thanks for the tip.

The Old Dark House (1932). Fresh off Frankenstein, Karloff is top-billed and pretty creepy but is slightly overshadowed by three stars in the making - Melvyn Douglas (in what really is the lead role), Charles Laughton and Raymond Massey. Ernest Thesigner (“Would you like a potato ?”) is also on hand and he, Karloff,…

See if you can get a hold of the animated Star Trek series and watch it before before diving into ST:TMP.

You’re all a bunch of Herberts. If you’ll excuse me, it’s time to click my heels and jump for joy. I got a clean bill of health from Dr. McCoy!

I always find the ways in which pop culture reacted to the counterculture and the Summer of Love so fascinating in a trainwreck kind of way. Sometimes the writers are moral scolds, shaking their heads at the inanity or it all (like the hippie cult in Dragnet); other times, they just want to prove they are “with it” (Ba…

We don’t talk about “The Way to Eden,” which may not be worse than “Spock’s Brain” but somehow annoys me more than “Spock’s Brain.” Damn space hippies.

Grande Illusion is such a rich film. I was lucky to see a restoration at Film Forum some years back. “Lotte hat blaue augen”

I went and watched The Ghost of Slumber Mountain on youtube just for the fun of the ridiculously long buildup. Ten minutes of slow framing devices just to get to the first shot of a clay brontosaurus eating is pretty funny.

Ghost of Slumber Mountain is such a weird little fragment of a movie. Obviously the plot was just an excuse to cram in dinosaurs but it’s so oddly over-complicated. Kind of like the scenario for Creation, the scrapped movie whose parts got fitted into King Kong.

Not really, all of his films feel like they’re of one piece, like short stories in a collection. I definitely agree about Rohmer’s use of settings.

Sorry to hear you’re sick. I hope you get well soon.

Obviously, it’s a treasure map that will lead you across Paris to a treasure hidden in a place where a new building is going to be built. You will then spend the treasure on restoring old buildings, realizing that you don’t need the money because the journey you took was the true treasure.