Yeah, boy. It's particularly crippled by the fact that a rl babysitter would give that house the serious side-eye. It seems 1) completely composed of glass-to-be-shattered 2) a window box where no one can hide.

"Ghost Story" doesn't nearly live up to the source material—I'm surprised no one's done a remake. But it's got one helluva score and the cast (except for Wasson) is perfect. Alice Krige was a great Borg Queen down the line, but she was truly terrifying here.

Thanks so much for praising GHOST SHIP's opening—an elegantly-gruesome piece of work. The fact that its credits are done in early Doris-Day-movie style is a nice nasty touch, too. :)

It didn't do well financially either—IIRC, it was a huge bomb.

God, yes. And the whole movie is able to pull off something that's kinda rare—to evoke a Victorian Ripper-stalking-the-streets atmosphere in a completely different era.

Yeah, I didn't have the ducats either. I'd gone into freelancing several years earlier and was doing good to keep the lights on.

Ahem—the black folks in LALD gave Bond one of his toughest cases. They were ahead of him every step of the way until the end—and not just because of Solitaire's skill. And if it weren't for author fiat, he would have been dead for good at least twice. Bond really had to work to complete this mission, and that's not…

Yeah. One can't be brilliant all the time. ;)

New Jersey has always been a very mixed bag on the racism front—still is. Basically, most blacks settled in the northeast urban hub of Newark and spread out to some of the surrounding towns when intergration opened things up. (My parents and their siblings did this, for one. ;)) But as a rule, the western and southern…

You misspelled Kaine, no? ;)

…And yet another overcomplicated show that turns TV-watching into a PowerPoint chore. Pass.

Speaking as a burned-out ex-X-FILES fan, I think it's a matter of there are only so many convoluted shows one person can adequately follow week to week. As well, I dunno about anyone else, but I'm getting sick to death of series that won't _end_, fer fuck's sake—especially if their casts consist of "world of jerks"…

Heh. I'd go back to buy Apple/Microsoft-in-its-prime stock and return to a vast fortune. ;)

Zahn is one of the (very) few good things about SAHARA.

I could swear a rapper did a cover version of this… Off to Google…

"Mr. Downtown" is on repeat on my Pod. And its backstory is a wonderfully-detailed hoot, too. “Theme from Mr. Downtown” tells the story of the 1957 television program. Detective Sergeant ‘Shake’ Lovell, so haunted by the murder of a good friend, has become an insomnia-riddled denizen of a big city’s jazz club scene.…

Hanks in general was quite good in this. He nailed that affable coldness sadly typical of a lot of agents, managers, and A&R reps.

Though I'd pay good money for Ta-Nehsi Coates interviewing HP Lovecraft.

I agree that already this show isn't sticking to its own rules. Ten minutes of these three walking around back in time would tangle history up beyond repair, no? Unless the template here is more FRINGE than SOUND OF THUNDER/BUTTERFLY EFFECT…

Actually, I enjoyed Rufus' running racial commentary. That's exactly the kind of stuff most black folks like me would say. ;) It wasn't about pretending racism no longer exists—it's about giving another POV on genre conventions.