When I saw this trailer I thought it was Chloe Grace Moretz.

I haven't watched the film in a few years, but I also don't recall the scene being that graphic (other than some nudity and lots of writhing around in the sand). I'm skeptical that there was anything hardcore done or shot. It just always struck me as his idea of promoting the authenticity of everything you see in the…

I don't get why anyone would take Jodorowsky literally. Just watch his last two films, his "autobiography." He is a constant teller of tall tales and self mythologizes on the level of Salvador Dali. You have to put his comments in context of everything else about him - his career is built out of the Panic movement he…

I'd like to read that book…there's so little of his writing in English so I really should. His writing for comics is fantastic (the Metabarons being a high point) and I think he actually found his voice as an artist after El Topo and The Holy Mountain (which I like, but I personally think Dance of Reality is better…

I was one of the crowdfund backers of this film and I ended up importing the Blu-ray from the UK because I was getting impatient to see it. I really thought Dance of Reality was better (I think that's his best film - a reconciliation with memories of his father featuring a beautiful score by his son Adan). Endless…

I will say Charles Durning was very inspired in it, Bancroft made a great match for Brooks on screen, and yes, the more chances to make fun of Hitler, the better. It was strange to watch it so close to watching the original, because it really felt like Brooks was just doing his adaptation of a popular play - very…

I forgot about that. I think the phrasing is almost exactly the same in the Mel Brooks bit.

It's funny, we recently watched the original Ernst Lubitch "To Be or Not to Be," which takes place in Poland, but everyone speaks English. Then we watched the Mel Brooks version about a week later, and he begins by having Brooks and Bancroft speaking in Polish, giving up, and switching to English to make it easier on…

What I appreciate most about the POTA series now is that we got a whole franchise of intellectual, political (and, yes, sometimes slow-moving) science fiction films. They couldn't have been released after Star Wars, the recent reboot notwithstanding. So as a kid in the Star Wars era I didn't like them. As an adult I…

Do you remember what the other movie was?

I think this is the only "Run the Series" ranking that I 100% agreed on. I think really highly of "Conquest," but the original is still the strongest film, in part because of its sheer originality but also its strange mix of conviction and willingness to embrace its absurdity.

Yeah, I remember seeing the documentary on TV, and even though I'd seen the first POTA, I had no idea the sequels were so interesting both for their high concept SF and political commentary. I probably would never have watched them if not for the documentary, even though the doc basically spoiled all of them for me.…

Fright Night and The Legend of Hell House have always been favorites of mine, and McDowall's eccentric performances elevate them.

…And the book they're reading is called "To Serve Man," and there's a recipe at the end…

Yeah, the fourth really impressed me. It still holds up very well, with its political subject being (depressingly) timeless, it seems.

…And I kept thinking the movie would be improved if it turned into a summer camp slasher in the last reel. Just a suggestion.

I rewatched Meatballs last week and it really doesn't hold up. There's a lot of schmaltz, awful music (oh, the Rick Dees theme to "Meatballs"…) and Murray's mugging just is nowhere near as funny or inspired as he would be in subsequent movies. A few months ago I rewatched Stripes too, and it holds up a little better,…

I love Spirits of the Dead, but mainly for Toby Dammit. The phantom girl seems to be influenced by the one in Mario Bava's "Kill Baby Kill," which is a Gothic classic.

I had the Disney Channel in the 80's and they used to show very strange and rare animated films, and The Mouse and His Child is one of them. I watched it a lot. It's depressing as hell, but that's all I remember about it. The Point, on the other hand, is a stone-cold classic.

I saw this trailer before Baby Driver and laughed out loud at that line.