Like I said when somebody complained about Tricia Helfer playing Tom Ellis's Mother on Lucifer, "Helfer's five years older than he is - which means in Hollywood years she's old enough to be his Grandma!"

And before that he was the Dick van Dyke-style Funny Nice Guy, @disqus_t62jyiJBrU:disqus ! Having a couple $25 million paydays only to see your bankability get flushed away, and your need to be taken seriously as an actor just be ignored, would be enough to crush any person's spirit.

@avclub-2bf7bb353a1107a5d5c41d1ff4c624cb:disqus - I've worked with enough not-famous people like Mike Myers that I really don't have any sympathy for that kind of bullshit. If, whether as an actor or a director, you can't maintain a professional demeanor and do what you can to keep things running smoothly, then you…

@Wammertodging:disqus - I agree with your point, actually, but in this case selling the Black community on a gun that can kill a bulletproof Black guy, thus by extension any Black person? It's a bit of a stretch given the writing….

That's true enough - it was more a humorous take on how it often seemed wars were generaled, @steveburstein:disqus .

Sadly no, @khalleron:disqus .

Hope you enjoying burning in Hell for all eternity, you hate-filled hypocrite!

It didn't become iconic until film studies became a thing, @Croig:disqus , but it was hardly "nothing special" - or no less special than most other movies of that time. Movies back then, a handful of really big spectaculars like Gone With the Wind aside, were largely considered like most network television is now -…

Yeah, @disqus_sLBghPk9XI:disqus - we made those jokes at the time, even while almost every business in NYC used Wang OS for about five years there in the mid-Eighties.

First Spaceship on Venus is a fantastika movie, @khalleron:disqus - and you're right, it is in its own way a stunning achievement, and has a non-comic relief Black astronaut (unheard of in US SF in the early Sixties).

Were Thirties Americans "anti-war", or simply isolationist, @steveburstein:disqus ?

Paramount is still gnashing its teeth over that attitude regarding Star Trek, @disqus_t62jyiJBrU:disqus !

Jeez, I'd forgotten that was the series closer, @thadbarkley:disqus !

Excellent point, @michaelnicchetta:disqus ! I mainly brought up Doctor Who because it's the one BBC or ITV Sixties show regular people might recognize these days.

1981 seems a wee bit early for "the beginning of the VHS era", @spuddie:disqus . Yes, VHS VCRs had been available for about four years, but as this one comic on I Love the 80s said when his Dad brought their first one home (in 1984 or 1985, I think), "This box cost more than you do, so you don't touch it, ever!" T and…

@chrisfetters:disqus - yeah, it feels British even though the cast is almost exclusively American, so Vancouver fits.

@Long Haired Jesse Custer:disqus - couldn't they have just hired the cast of Community to give us a season of Inspector Spacetime instead?

So - he writes a lot like his Dad directs then, @avclub-7d640ca825f963b9fc36e0857c0b39e5:disqus ?

I saw what you did there, @disqus_sLBghPk9XI:disqus .

We finally saw it tonight - and it's not bad, honestly.