Opinions of every flavor are more interesting when expressed with a modicum of wit, personality, or interesting eccentricity and a minimum of internet douchespeak like "ZZZZZZZ," And the Whinging Victim card is best left unplayed until more than one person has been uncivil to you.

I felt like his decision that he could live with her having eaten his father was a sufficient climax, but de gustibus and all that.

Whether it's in the cinema or the bedroom, we all want what we want and there's nothing wrong with that, but I do think it's useful to remember that there's a long list of respected and even revered films, going back to the silent era, whose virtues don't involve witty dialogue, nuanced characterization or complex…

The one it improves on is the goth kid, who isn't a goth and is given an interesting backstory. Kitano is a big improvement on the novel's equivalent, who's a two-dimensional (I'm too pedantic to write "one-dimensional") sadistic rapist.

Okay, okay, I'll actually watch John Carter, even though I'm dubious about anyone who's not a young Sophia Loren (and who wears less clothes than Collins appears to) being a perfect Dejah Thoris. And the title character really needs to be a bit bigger, darker-haired and slightly older (I know he's immortal, but I…

Indeed it is. Uncle Charlie is one of the great psychos, as well as a symbolic (and some have argued, literal) vampire.

He definitely meant for it to be creepy, and it was part of the Dark Jimmy Stewart trend of the 50s, in which he played a succession of obsessed and/or deeply troubled characters who either are or are on the verge of being anti-heroes with hints of outright villainy.

He may never have a huge hit, but he had a substantial arthouse one in this. It was his highest grossing film and made $172,700,000.

Saw A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and liked it much more than Ignatz did here or Tasha did at the Dissolve. Is it an "empty" exercise in style and mood? Mebbe, but no more so than Dreyer's Vampyr or Bava's La Maschera del Demonio, to name two other stylish black and white vampire films that in no way resemble…

He rarely gets enough credit for the mordant humor. It's one thing all those far too earnest covers of "Hallelujah." Calling him gloomy is very 1986.

I dislike much of Stone's oeuvre pretty intensely, buy I also dislike the misuse of "hack," an opprobrium that does seem fo be used by many hipsters, even if not exclusively by them. It's not a synonym for "bad" or "inept," and any creator who incessantly and obsessively uses the same themes is ipso facto not a hack,…

Timothy Dalton looks better now than either Moore or Connery did in their 50s (and Connery looked good, after looking pretty bad in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER). Dalton could probably have played Bond up until he was 59 or so.

Where the Hell is Emily Carroll's THROUGH THE WOODS, you hoopleheads?

Culp is quite wonderful on I SPY, often playing darker and more conflicted than you'd expect, especially in episodes that he wrote. He even plays a double role as an ultimately heroic Burmese warlord (in prosthetic makeup by John Chambers) in love with a young Jean Marsh better than you'd expect a white guy in…

I SPY, which I've been watching on Hulu, is darker than people remember it. Oh, it could be lighthearted and fun, but both Kelly and Scotty were tougher, angrier and more noirish than the Men from U.N.C.L.E., and while never really venturing into Le Carre territory, the show explored genuine moral dilemmas and took…

Benny was, as you probably know, Cusack's real life sensei ever since SAY ANYTHING (where Cusack gets his nose broken by Don "the Dragon" Wilson).

I need to see this, as it sounds pretty great. The only Fuller I've seen are THE BIG RED ONE and THE NAKED KISS. The latter really surprised me when I caught up to it on TCM a few years ago. I REALLY didn't expect the final revelation that destroys Constance Towers' hopes. I mean, yeah, I knew he'd turn out to be…

THE NAKED KISS is amazingly tawdry and perverse. I recommend it highly

Plus, they invent the striptease!

Link is actually supposed to be a chimp, but is played by a dyed orangutan for reasons that are better known now than when the film was made; chimps are the only great ape known to hunt, kill and eat humans (and the only captive-raised ape known to rip the faces and genitals off them). Because orangutans have goofier…