The movies, IMO, are all pretty average. The casting was generally good to great but the movies themselves ironically often lacked magic due to dull direction and unimaginative cinematography.

looks fine, i guess. it would be nice to have something set in whatever the current continuity is supposed to be, though. i’m getting really tired of ‘post X, pre Y’ stories, and it feels like the next 5 shows are all that.

“I’m the Half-Blood Prince!”

I will forever defend the Columbus movies. They’re faithful adaptations that don’t do much more (partially because the kid actors just haven’t come into their own, and also because the source material hadn’t yet matured past basic kid’s fantasy as well), but the thing they do that the back half of the film series just…

Oooh, “Red Right Hand” by Nice Cave and the Bad Seeds! One of the coolest and creepiest songs he ever recorded. And very much a Halloween song.

What the - ? Where the hell is “Dead Man’s Party” by Oingo Boingo? It’s just not a Halloween party until you play “Dead Man’s Party”.

Ghost town, The Specials. Although I get strong Scooby Doo vibes, which has strong Halloween vibes itself actually

I WORKED FOR THESE KRACKLES, MOTHER.

Dance with the Dead - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company - The Dead South
Dancing at the Zombie Zoo - Tom Petty
Pretty much the entirety of The Aquabats vs. The Floating Eye of Death

So, one year around Halloween I renamed an MP3 and changed the meta data of The Monster Mash to “All I Want For Christmas Is You” and let people download it on Napster.

Dead Man’s Party by Oingo Boingo always puts me in the Halloween mood.

“Back when we created the first Toy Story, we designed Buzz Lightyear with the idea that he was a toy based on some really cool character from an epic blockbuster film,” Docter says. “Well, all these years later, we decided to make that film.”

This is one of those albums that feels overlong at 65 minutes, but I’m not really sure what I’d cut. None of the tracks on it are bad - it just kinda goes on and on, which I guess kinda fits your “exhausted on the road” metaphor. Granted it’s more of a compact disc-era problem of bloated album runtimes.

indoctrinate: “to force somebody to accept a particular belief or set of beliefs and not allow them to consider any others”

Happy to see this fine, underappreciated album get some love. My only complaint about it is also sort of a compliment. It’s frontloaded and starts to feel sort of thin toward the end. But since it’s very much a road album, literally made on the road, it actually seems appropriate that as it goes on you get this sense…

Chris Evans takes on another role as a stoic and indoctrinated tool of a government body in the origin story of Buzz Lightyear, titled Lightyear.

“It’s unclear why the kids love Darnielle’s depressing song about the fictional miserable Alpha couple,...”

You’re missing Iron Man 3 which definitely felt like a Shane Black movie.

When do they not have something to promote? John is a song writing machine