Started out with some interest in this, but as the series wore on my interest flagged, so I’m just going to list a few notes before I move on.

[B]ut some have guessed a ‘60s space race theme

Legally or practically?

Because nothing says adventure story set during the first half of the 20th century like Credence Clearwater Revival?

Yep. And it’s not because movies today are too “slick” or “commercial.” Films from the golden age of Hollywood were still basically industrial products: They were made on an assembly line by a team of highly skilled craftspeople, much as modern blockbusters are. And yet, many of them still look and sound amazing. They…

The irony here is I can remember a time when CBS arguably the had the most prime time hits centered around women of the three networks. This was the network that had Mary Tyler Moore, Cagney and Lacey, Designing Women, and Murphy Brown. Then Les Moonves showed up and they did a 180 and it became totally bro-centric…

The other thing worth noting is that on one had Elvis’ racing “team” is a rather dinky shoestring operation - it’s basically just uncle Charlie from My Three Sons, financed by gambling winnings. On the other hand, they appear to be the only racing team with a helicopter at their disposal to track his progress during…

What’s interesting about this film is where it sits in contemporary pop culture trends at the time of its release. So, up to just maybe even the year prior, Vegas was probably most closely associated with the Rat Pack, which I think (aside from Elvis) you might consider the epitome of cool in the late 50's and early…

This siteIt also has an insane “you have 40 seconds to end the movie starting... now!” ending.

Not only were the “funniest people” not actually funny, they were practically hatewatch grade unfunny, at least as far as our household were concerned. And yes, it was mostly just a vehicle to further expose America to the “persona” of Dave Coulier. Kitaen also wasn’t his first co-host. Those duties initially went to…

She never co-hosted America’s Funniest Home Videos. She co-hosted a spinoff, America’s Funniest People, with Dave Coulier.

Red October is far and away the best of the bunch, and is probably at least a near classic if not a classic film. I’d put it up there at least with something like Where Eagles Dare - Not something so good it ranks above its genre, like Diehard, but still very good. But let’s be honest: THFRO is a Sean Connery movie…

Yes, but do remember that as far as evangelicals are concerned, only their Christianity is the real Christianity, and what anybody else says or believes doesn’t matter because they will burn in the depths of hell for all eternity (accept maybe right wing Catholic Supreme Court justices - they might yet find salvation).

Anti-intellectual, aggressively “Christian” (special emphasis on the quotes) and equates authoritarianism with freedom. That’s sort of like, “stop, cease, and desist” - three different ways of saying what is basically the same thing.

Jesus, I got so tired of seeing his crack every time I turned on the TV news for four years.

Frankly, I’m kind of shocked that in the vastness of the Universal library, This Island Earth was the best that they could come up with. There’s a point in The Big Goodbye where the author runs down what sort of movies the major studios were making circa 1973. He quotes Polanski as saying, “Universal made shit.”…

It wasn’t a great choice because, despite some campy aspects, it was a fairly decent, well-executed film. But overall I agree, the Nelson era was stronger with either non- Sci Fi, or 70's and 80's Sci Fi stuff. People making jokes about old monster and flying saucer movies had been kind of done to death at that point.…

But it remains worth seeking out, if not for its misguided ambition (70mm prints got a stentorian overture from John Barry) then for its time capsule qualities (repeat: 70mm prints got a stentorian overture from John Barry).

The most telling knock on this show, which I’ve heard more than once, is that it’s a rich person’s idea of what being poor is like. My job is working with the poor, lower income, and often homeless folks, so I can say with some experience there’s some truth to that. Just to look at that shot of them hanging out in the…

I know a few people in Chicago who own houses where a back room was added without really modifying the old back wall of the house.