Filler—- yup. Goodfeathers? Yeesh.

Batman is something that will age in increments, but will hold up for a long time, if not forever. You can still enjoy them.

Yes, but all of his imitations are so readily identifiable and not that different. I hear his Ed Wood Welles and think "Brain."

I am something of a Welles expert. I also listen to his radio work frequently, at least several times weekly. I am very familiar with his tonal range, his timbre and his cadence.

Yeah, I get that. I watched it when it came out because of that. But watching it now is almost painful. The 90s zany antic humor was in full swing. The character designs were okay, but the overall animation was spotty, at best. It looked cheap.

This and The Animaniacs. . . don't hold up well. At all.

So… I watched some of it, and it's 2001, with a few quirky songs thrown in? I don't get it.

Just once I'd like to read or listen to an interview where every other sentence doesn't begin with "I think." It's really pretty much implied you're thinking, so please, stop reminding us.

Hardy, to both of your points. You wouldn't call a Wes Anderson flick "French New Wave," even though he uses a lot of the stylistic language. You wouldn't call the Mad Max movies Science Fiction, even though they're set in the future.

Some wouldn't count The Third Man as noir - many define the genre as being strictly American. I've heard some call it "Brit noir."

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Any reviewer who thinks Kiss Me Deadly is the quintessential noir is suspect in my book. It's one of the weakest in the genre.

Thank god another pop song was analyzed and explained. Now I can rest easy knowing this historic document has been decoded.

Wake me up when they bring back Royal Roy.

You're just grasping at straws, now. It has very little to do with the cold war, if anything at all. Sure, it was set in a city that was divided into zones, but this is not an East vs West story.

The Third Man is not set during the war, but well after it.

But it's not "wartime noir". It could be scantily described as "postwar noir" at best, but the story is not framed during a war, but in the aftermath.