I regret that I can only star this once.

104 is just a jawdropping age for anyone, nevermind as accomplished an author as Ms. Cleary. In 1916 when she was born, the first transatlantic telephone call was still a decade away, as was the first “talking” movie, as was “Steamboat Willie”.  WRGB, the first broadcast TV station in the USA, commenced operations…

I don’t know if I’d go that far, but it had substantially more gay sex, which I approved of.

Aw damnit. Oz had its ups and downs as a series, but he was always watchable in it, and after it wrapped it was always a happy surprise to see him in a new project.

The GameGear’s screen was also a “passive matrix” LCD screen, which meant that fast action was basically impossible to follow: everything smeared all over the place as the pixels failed to refresh fast enough.

That and the screen was oriented vertically. Which I guess was maybe nice if you were really into shmups, of which the n-gage had...exactly one.

“Thor: The Dark World” would like a word.

Right??? I watched that trailer and thought to myself my god, did Snyder actually do it?

They also manage the impressive trick of making (uh spoilers I guess) Naomi Harris as an all-powerful sea goddess... really boring and uninteresting?

Oh yeah. L&LD the book is egregiously racist by the standards of Ian Fleming books which is... impressive.

That was amazing. Apparently it’s even streamable, so I guess I know what I’m doing tonight.

Borg: You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

The Mitchum story is pure insanity.  I figure it’s 5% true at best but what a 5%!

Damnit, how on earth did he escape without a Random Roles?  For shame, avclub, for shame.

It was often and famously said of Christopher Lee that he’d been in a lot of bad movies, but he’d never given a bad performance in them. Yaphet Kotto is one of the few other actors who I think can make a similar claim: Live and Let Die is as close to irredeemable as any of the Bond films (which is, frankly, saying…

Seriously, I would watch the hell out of that.

I suspect there’s a bit of careful strategizing here.  If you want the foot soldiers to provide evidence against the generals who were paying and ordering them, you probably want a more compelling argument than “you should do it because it’s the right thing and also I’m going to punch you in the face repeatedly…

I’m not sure I’d agree that it was generally pro-dynastic politics: the Earth Kingdom under Queen Hou-Ting was pretty un-subtly depicted as hopelessly corrupt and moribund (a through-line from the original series) and about the worst thing you could say about how that plotline paid off was that they were maybe a…

McConaughey for Governor: Time is a Flat Circle

Oh man, memories. A few days after 15 year old me had his first meeting with our old friend LSD, my girlfriend and I (both frankly still a little hung over from the experience) were attempting to chill out at home by watching Monty Python and of course because the universe enjoys fucking with young drug abusers, it…