"Castrate him!"

We briefly had the Congo one at the movie theater I worked at in high school. We also had Addams Family Values, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and an awesome non-movie game called Theater of Magic from which I still quote liberally to this day.

I played this machine last year. I went into the place to meet some friends, having no idea such a thing as Bill Paxton pinball existed. Needless to say, I was blown away to discover it. I'm not a pinball wizard by any means, so I can't really tell you how it stacks up to other machines, but I can tell you there's a…

Senor Trump no es macho
Senor Bannon es un barracho

That show as very good at that sort of thing. As a long-suffering Minnesota Timberwolves fan, I was never able to stay mad at Kevin McHale despite his franchise-crippling stint as GM because I afforded him so much goodwill from his Cheers appearances.

"Oh shit, there's stickers."

I'll allow that so long as you don't think too hard about what constitutes a live-in.

I was recently tasked with making a playlist for a close family member's funeral. She was a huge fan of Fox's animation block, so I made sure to include The Simpsons opening theme, one of those Conway Twitty songs from Family Guy, and of course the Bob's Burgers theme. One of the more bittersweet things I've ever seen…

Pssh, like this chump could ever handle driving the super karate monkey death car.

I had no idea Suzuki was still alive and now I'm bummed. I caught Youth of the Beast at my local tiny art house theater last year and was blown away by its weird-ass energy. I have Tokyo Drifter on my DVD shelf right now via Netflix and now I have all the more reason to make the time to watch it.

It actually wound up on at least one other "Film Discoveries of 2016" list at Rupert Pupkin Speaks besides mine. Guess it was a banner year for Death Car on the Freeway. Personally, I like when movies leave the villains mysterious and unexplained, so that bit worked for me. But yeah, the feminist angle is what really…

Just after Abe Vigoda died last year, I viewed Death Car on the Freeway, a very good TV movie in which Abe has a cameo as a jovial patient who jokes with his nurse about how much of a relief it is for an old man like him to get a clean bill of health. That movie is from 1979.

Heck, Tenement alone should cement Roberta Findlay as one of the most important female directors of her era. It's a masterpiece of '80s grindhouse that couldn't have come from any other director.

Even more unjust, Roberta Findlay, who I'd argue was by far the better filmmaker of the couple, is currently folded into Michael's Wikipedia entry and doesn't have one of her own. Together the Findlays were exploitation geniuses, but on her own Roberta is a goddamn Mozart of trash.

Archer is also the only television character I have ever heard make a throwaway joke about Michael Findlay being dismembered by a helicopter, which remains maybe the high point of the show's obscure references for me.

It isn't. I give you 1974's A Hard Day for Archie. It ain't good, but it's… something. http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

And perhaps not surprisingly, nobody drew more buxom Riverdaleans than noted Archie Christian comics purveyor Al Hartley.

Between that and Paul and June seeing it in an abandoned theater that required them to cross the street for refreshments, everything about their moviegoing experiences had a surreal tinge that only amplified the appeal of the film.

"Placebo Effect" (aka "Terms of Enrampagement") is one of my favorite episodes of anything ever. It's one of those episodes that makes me laugh like hell but also sucks me in with some genuine pathos and shocking plot twists. Finding out after the fact that the climactic scene was a near note-for-note recreation of a…

He's very good at redirecting a conversation that's lagging or heading down an unproductive path, and just as good at identifying a promising narrative thread and tugging at it until a story pops out. There have been a number of times when the intro question doesn't trigger much of anything in the interviewee, and…