"Turn on Sticky Keys"? The hell is this?

If I'm measuring it against the '80s flicks that inspired it, it's an upper-tier entry in the genre. If I'm measuring it against its late '00s contemporaries, it's something of a miracle.

And best of all, it wasn't smirky, self-aware B-movie trash. Pulling that kind of thing off with sincerity is nigh impossible in the age of irony.

The military guys were among a number of elements that Boyle and company more or less lifted straight from John Wyndham's Day of the Triffids. I don't begrudge them the borrowing and still dig 28 Days Later a lot - I remember walking out of the theater and glancing suspiciously at all of the other audience members for…

Doomsday had no place in the post-Mad Max, pre-Mad Max moviescape, but that just makes it all the better. I miss that brief window when Rhona Mitra was in everything.

"There's possum in these beans, and spices too. I tried hard."

Having grown up in the era when comics publishers were really pushing "Comcs aren't just for kids anymore!" to the extent that they forgot to make any comics that were for kids, I hope they don't start pushing too far in that direction. Of course, the continued box office success of PG-13 superhero movies probably…

Now I'm sad about David Bowie again.

Pssh, that guy can't even protect a hammer.

Hey, remember Eric Conveys an Emotion? That was a very nice internet site back in the day.

This isn't entirely on-topic, but I really need someone to make a Superman movie that features The Prankster just so they can cast Paul F. Tompkins.

I would very much like Jake Busey's career from here on out to be him playing exclusively the sons of his dad's characters. I'm especially enthused about The Buddy Holly's Son Story and Son of the Elvis-Loving Cabbie from D.C. Cab.

"Startroop Shippers" sounds like a skeevy slashfic community that almost certainly actually exists.

The only boy who could ever reach me was a…

I always love when someone becomes a sudden stickler about the logic of a scene while remaining grounded squarely within said scene. John Gemberling is the all-time champ of that move.

This is an exciting revelation. Into the queue it goes, if Howl/Stitcher will allow me to access the back catalog.

I was disappointed that improv4humans didn't immediately follow up with the second chapter of the Mopes Trilogy, but said disappointment evaporated as soon as I saw Scott Aukerman making his i4h debut. Scott's instinct for pushing things off the rails as quickly as possible isn't an exact match for Matt Besser's house…

Bang is doing a pretty amazing job of staying in character, considering how off-guard he must be taken by every new obstruction Shonk throws his way.

Yes, among other things it features adorable robots delivering VHS death tapes, lots of cunnilingus, and a male assassin sporting a blonde woman's wig for no discernible reason.

This week's How Did This Get Made? reminded me that I was reluctant to get into that show* in the first place because I'm a trash cinema devotee (read: snob) and listening to them lob potshots at easy targets like Sharknado and Jingle All the Way just seemed too obvious and pedestrian. I eventually came to love it…