I live in Wisconsin and this article is the first time I've ever heard of Shake Shack. But we have Culver's, so I'm good.

Apparently Monty Python's Flying Circus also just barely escaped the policy of routinely wiping programs.

I did that with a TV airing of Clash of the Titans sometime in the early 80's. I think it was before I knew what "taping a movie" meant.

That's awful.
I was on a jury for a rape trial around 2000. Details are fuzzy because so many years have passed, but the couple were a husband and wife, and the wife did not give consent. The jury had to wrestle with the fact that the situation happened in the marital bed, and that the couple arrived in court AS a…

Go stand in a corner.

I was going to defend it but then realized that I long ago sold mine off too, to join the ranks of Monster filling the Half Price Books CD bins alongside the thousands of copies of Jagged Little Pill.

That was one of the first albums I ever bought (on cassette) in the early 90's, and became a gateway drug into a lot of great artists, like Talking Heads.

Coraline was also a wonder in 3-D. When that portal opens and just telescopes into the distance.

You obviously haven't seen the apex of the art form, Jaws 3-D.

I made it halfway through season 2 (do I get a medal?) and then stopped watching entirely without noticing.

Netflix: "We're hear to remind you of the impermanence of all things."

Just a couple months after announcing they have all of Albert Brooks' films for streaming (and getting Brooks to film a little comedy skit for the news), they're already losing "Defending Your Life." Geez.

I was going to say The Burning too! It does a better job of feeling "authentic summer camp" than the Friday the 13th movies.

I remember a post on Cartoon Brew forever ago where the blogger posted pictures of many classic cartoon characters, their imaginative, stylish, and expressive design intact and glowing from the page, and then showed Shrek. Fucking ugly Shrek. And the problem with so much modern animation was perfectly clear.

I really enjoyed Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. It was extra Albert Brooks-y that during the bit where he has to give stand-up in a theater with the lights turned up, I was watching the film in a theater with the lights turned up. It was like watching Albert Brooks in 3-D. Enhanced comedy awkwardness.

(And it's okay to find Bill Paxton annoying in that film.)

"It is her story, and it is very much a story of her reclaiming those things the 'Alien' took from her, including her family, through her own actions."

I first saw it in the mid-90's too but it still had a big impact on me, diluted somewhat by all the military SF that followed (not that Cameron invented the genre, but ALIENS cemented it cinematically, and in the process created a lot of cliches).

My heart is with ALIEN, but ALIENS is one of the great sci-fi action films. Maybe its impact has been dulled by being ripped off for decades.

Yep, when you're 12 and you have access to a camera, it's what you end up doing. I remember making a video for a high school class, and we put a bunch of skits in it, and my friend insisted on quoting "The Princess Bride"…and he did an entire scene from the film. I was frustrated because I wanted to do something…