This movie was well known for a lot of years for being in the public domain. As a consequence, if you saw it you probably saw a very low quality dub. Fortunately, Criterion released a very superb restored version a few years back.

At this point, Michael Myers is getting close to 70, and Shatner, despite being 90, looks about 70. They should just do a scene where the pull off the mask to reveal Shatner underneath.

The entire Amityville series is probably the most disreputable horror IP there is. It isn’t even really a true “series” - after a certain point, producers of cheap horror movies recognized that you didn’t have to have any tie-in to the Lutz’s, or the Defeo murders, or even a Dutch colonial house. “Amityville” is a…

For me it’s a little too distracting. I’ve spent a lot of time in both places (Midwest and SoCal). The architecture, the terrain, the smog, the flora, etc. - it’s all very different. Also, during the first half of the movie it looks like someone is constantly tossing leaves just off camera so we’ll think, “Ah,…

The thing that’s ironic about that whole sequence is that if you re-watch Octopussy, it’s actually one of the less ridiculous parts of the movie.

So probably not surprisingly there’s a whole blog devoted to this topic:

Duh, the election’s over. Interest in SNL always peaks around a presidential election year.

Quantom of Solace (the only Craig movie where Bond doesn’t resign MI6, mind you)

Skyfall is falling down the charts. Try watching it a second time. It doesn’t hold up at all.

Octopussy? This was a serious stretch on the slideshow’s part, tying that to Indiana Jones. But that’s a fun movie.

I like Daniel Craig as an actor; he seems well on his way to being the first Bond since Connery to establish himself as a leading man outside the franchise. But oy veh, it’s time to call it a wrap on this iteration of Bond. The whole, “let’s have the hero constantly moody and pensive over his traumas” trope was never…

Ted: Because of my mistake, six men didn’t return from…

Up-voted for ranking For a Few Dollars More as the best of those three. Typically, the argument for the best seems to be between the first and the third. I find the middle is truly the “happy medium” in terms of style and sweep.

Oh come on... they also show whatever version of Dr. Who is going around at the moment.

So I know the kids hate it now when us old folk (i.e., anyone older than Generation Z) bore them with stories about life in the before times, but I can remember the days when Comedy Central was nothing but an endless loop of SNL reruns. Mind you, almost never did they show the ‘75-80 episodes (I believe those were…

A film in a very similar vein that didn’t much love on its release but has since become something of a cult favorite is 1988's Lady in White.

The 1980 film was the first thing I thought of too... great to see all the love it’s getting in the comments. Personally, I just love a great, moody, atmospheric ghost story. Hardly anyone seems to know how to do it right these days. They always try and make it too much like a regular horror flick with a bunch of jump…

Also, if they really are close friends and you cut them off, you just gave them one less reason not to get loaded, go to jail, go to rehab, or die.

All slang definitions vary, but essentially you’re avoiding intoxicating substances you’ve designated as “bad” (hard drugs and booze) but still indulging in ones that you’ve designated as not really bad (marijuana, wine).

My God, what a genius for publicity this guy has: Foreseeing both his employment as a both the producer at Jeopardy! and the death of Alex Trebek nine years before they happened, and then deciding to get himself sued for harassment just so that he could give himself Trebek’s job, then withdraw from it so that the…