“I knew it, I’m surrounded by Warners.”  

Yep. Back-to-basics yet vaguely “elevated.” Still, whenever I get upset about a horror franchise being creatively bankrupt, I remember how much I enjoy the 40,000 Halloween spawn made between 1979 and 1985.

Hey. Remember that time 18 years ago when we saw Janet Jackson’s boob?

Social Skills Tip #814: If someone is talking to you about dealing with depression, don’t immediately ask them if they’re suicidal.

Or, you know, for the last six years.  

Da da da daa da, da dadada da daa, da dadada da da duh daaaaaaaa!

Whatever, Dafoe’s awesome at comedy.

Frankly I wish they were all private dicks. I don’t need to see that.

I think I saw the live debut of Zoot Suit Riot in Eugene, Oregon.

You presumably did not spend time with a lot of stoned undergrads in the late 90s.  I still have a twitch.  

It’s true, the Beatles are such an influential band, we should really think about documenting their work more.  Just, you know, in case we forget about them.  

Roosters man.  Good thing for them hens don’t file lawsuits.  

I think the meaning was lost more due to hyper-saturation and the fact that, sometime around the 478,092nd time you heard that chorus, you wanted to punch any given anarchist in the face.

I mean, you are a silent-era movie star. 

MMV on stop motion, but the uncanny valley refers to emotional responses to replicas of human beings, e.g. “Peter Cushing” in Rogue One. Stop motion for the most part doesn’t attempt to replicate reality. It creates its own aesthetic. This is why, at least for me, old school Ray Harryhausen effects are timeless: they…

Whatever this movie is like, I’m sure the filmmakers are just fine and free to pursue a life of religious fulfillment.

I’m excited to see him do his acting job under better conditions. Like, I have two kids, unstable childcare and a demanding job. The fact that I’ve been able to be remotely successful in my work is due in very large part to the fact that I have a competent, understanding supervisor with whom I have a good rapport. If…

And xeroxes.  Big, weird xeroxes of people’s faces on walls. For no reason at all.  

I would say something grumpy about maybe creating our own IPs instead of constantly mining old ones, but Fatal Attraction could use a re-examination.

The idea of a Russian version of MTV’s The Challenge, filmed in space, seems both about right and vaguely terrifying.