And one of Pancho Villa’s most notorious acts was when he crossed the Mexican-American border and raided Columbus, New Mexico, looting the town and its bank.

I like Three Days of the Condor as a Fall movie because it’s set after the glorious leaves-changing-colors period that’s the typical cinematic shorthand for Fall. Redford spends half the movie wearing a blazer and looking like he wished he had an overcoat on, which is pretty much Autumn in a nutshell.

I have mixed feelings about the explosion of meta comedy. On the one hand, as a fairly pop culture savvy adult, I really enjoy it personally. On the other hand, as the parent of a 7 and 5 year-old, I feel sorry for them because meta and deconstructive entertainment makes up a huge percentage of the media they are…

Oh and also Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which itself is a meta-commentary of Shakespeare’s own work and Theater itself. I wonder what this guy has a degree in. 

How about The Last Newhart, where the entire show ends up being a dream of Bob Newhart’s character on his previous sitcom? Or Moonlighting, where the entire concept of a fourth wall was thrown away and the characters regularly worry about being canceled, and ends with Bruce and Cybill saying goodbye? Or Monty Python…

Agree! Hugh’s and ghost-Liv’s eye-rolling and the disdainful way the adult children refer to her (I really only remember that one story about how she tried to gently correct Nell’s use of a childish word, you know, like a PARENT MIGHT HELPFULLY DO), seems totally disjointed with the apparent love and care she lavished…

Dude, it was the 1980s. They used to let us roam around unsupervised construction sites on the weekends.

Ahhhh, good point. Though I’ll desperately save face by insisting that part three isn’t a late entry!

By now, October 31 should be a day of martial law in Haddonfield. How many horny teenagers have to die before the sleepy, fictional Midwestern town bans trick-or-treating, outlaws William Shatner masks, and puts a small army on every leaf-covered street corner?

“People are a problem."

I was with it up until “the happily ever after” ending, which completely undermined the doom to which Olivia, Hugh, and Nell were consigned, and the intrinsic horror of Hill House’s existence and every spirit bound inside of it. If the intent was to show that love could carve out a safe state of being in the Red Room,…

Fitzcarraldo!

Well, if we’re gonna talk relevant Douglas Adams quotes...

Leviathan! That one I’ve seen. And, Buckroo Banzai is streaming on Amazon, so I’m going to make that happen. 

I’ve got RoboCop and First Born down, but outside of that and maybe a horror flick I can’t name? I can’t think of anything he’s in. However, I can do Buckaroo Banzai! 

I’m 49 so if it is directed at millenials I am definitely out of the target demographic.

Definitely true for the Office US, which flourished once Steve Carell stopped trying to be Ricky Gervais.

“Hey, WW1 was caused by a cartoon version of a greek god”

That makes me even more impressed that she blazed her own trail in comedy. She could easily have been a lazy sack of shit or a “VP” at the family business who does nothing. 

They won’t be able to invade other worlds. Instead they are open to invasion themselves. After all the ethnic cleansing there are a lot of empty spaces in this world.