"All in the Family" is really of its era, so much so that it has never really done well in reruns. Who wants to hear Archie and "the Meathead" go on and on about Nixon after Nixon resigned?

Thanks! Pretty charming.

Stalin is too tied up with the victory in the Second World War to criticize, certainly not with someone you have just met. Only if you are someone who is really trusted will they open up about Stalin.

Actually, Russians don't have a lot of experience with corn. Nikita Khrushchev really pushed the growing of corn in the USSR, and that probably left a lot of people there soured on corn. (Khrushchev is the one Soviet leader that Russians do not feel shy about criticizing in front of foreigners.)

A great evaluation of "Terminator 2." I liked it at the time, but I haven't felt compelled to revisit it. I really like "The Terminator" with Arnold as the villain. "T-2" 's time travel works, but I love the premise of the first one.

My son and I have noted Shane Black's penchant for Christmas violence.

Does it matter?

A wonderful appreciation of "Total Recall." This is one of the best articles in this series. I really enjoyed it.

I've read "From Caligari to Hitler," and the author called movies like "Caligari" and "Nosferatu" tyrant films because they dealt with authority figures who were evil.

I loved the "With no helmet!" line.

Yes, where is the "Avatar" fan base. (Typically when people say they love "Avatar" they mean the TV series.)

Okay, Bela Lugosi was never in a Mummy movie. Karloff was in the 1932 film, and Lon Chaney Jr. was in the 1940s Mummy movies.

Anyone here remember "The Funky Phantom"? It was a Hanna-Barbera attempt to copy/replicate Scooby-Doo in 1971.

I watched the "Groovy Goolies" when I was a kid.

Probably because Bradbury was published at a time when "science fiction" was applied to nearly all "non-realist" writing. Fantasy was seen as elves and dragons, which you don't really find in Bradbury.

Actually, I like both "A Charlie Brown Halloween" and Bradbury's stories.

I read somewhere that Bradbury wrote "The Halloween Tree" because he was mad at "A Charlie Brown Halloween," which, in his view, told kids that there is no magic and imagination is good for nothing.

"The Haunting" didn't work for me, but it isn't the fault of the movie. I saw it at a theater in the early Eighties, and the audience had a large segment of people there who whistled and stamped their feet every time Russ Tamblyn said something. I can't take the movie seriously after that.

Totally agree with the description of "The Babadook." To me, it felt like a reworking of "The Shining."

I like but don't love "The Thing." This was a good article in that it articulates what I probably was thinking all along.