Morrissey has always existed outside the mainstream, but his positions seem rooted in true belief rather than a desire to remain relevant.

When a founder of a scene passes away, there’s a tendency to say “we won’t see their like again” but in this case: goddamn. We will never see their like again. It already seems impossible that we saw them even the once.

DWI after, apparently, getting into a physical altercation with his wife.

The fact that Jim fucking Bakker is anything but a punchline answer to a bar trivia question on 1980s night just fucking hurts my soul. The man was and is terrible by the standards of televangelists — not just in his politics but in how fucking naked and obvious his scams were.  They should have buried him in prison.

Huh, no, and that’s a hell of a cast so I’ll take a look.  Thanks!

Much as with Blade Runner, I’d be kinda chuffed if Disney kept making Tron sequels once every 20-30 years.  God knows Garrett Hedlund is likely to be needing the work in 2042.

and is probably the biggest downer of the bunch, depending on how you feel about Tron

What I love about that movie is just how many genuinely great actors debased themselves in it.  It’s just a who’s who of royal shakespeare co alumni, all trying desperately to escape with their dignity intact.  (All failed.)

I mean they kinda made that as a movie and in fact called it Caligula.

Huh.  More than anything else, it reminds me of “The Uninvited”, a 1986 point-and-click horror game that got released on the original Macintosh.

It’s a hard call whether Raiders or Aliens influenced more video games in the end.

The ending of Time Bandits was absolutely gobsmacking as a kid. Just the last thing you’d expect at the end of a movie like that, and yet somehow perfect.

The gag when she cracks him on the jaw with the mirror is successfully played for huge laughs, but that’s despite the fact that you wince knowing how much that would have actually hurt.

In Blade Runner, when Deckard stumbles back to his apartment after being beaten senseless by Leon, bruised, battered and bleeding into his shot of vodka, I wince every time. He completely sells that he just got into the fight of his life and lost badly.

The truck chase in Raiders is a strong contender for the best physical stunt in history, but I’d also nominate:

It would definitely be better than the last two seasons of Doctor Who.  Maybe Johnson would  want the gig after Chibnall is mercifully retired?

TLJ was a genuinely weird movie that didn’t work at all in a lot of ways, but the Luke vs Kylo face-off nearly made up for the whole thing for me.

God, the Yoda pinball scene in Attack of the Clones was just shockingly bad. I was dumb enough to pay money to see it in the theater, and I remember half the audience breaking out into disbelieving laughter the moment it started. Even if you didn’t see it as a betrayal of the character’s established ethos, it just…

Honestly, the theory that he forgot is the optimistic take. The pessimistic take is that he totally remembered, and the story he really wanted to tell was an oddly racist CGI smear about trade disputes and space incels who didn’t like sand.

Right, but they were going to Alderaan to find... Princess Leia, who was clearly in deep shit and asking for Obi-Wan to extract her before the Empire arrived, which it would presumably be doing in force. This was a risky but defensible thing to do while dragging along the kid of your former buddy who Vader happened to…