iTunes wasn’t a solution, though, if you were leery of getting into the Apple ecosystem. And iTunes has always been terrible for file organization.

One of my favorite things about the original—and one of the things that makes it such a unique horror movie—is the way Leatherface seems increasingly upset that these strange weirdo teenagers keep coming up to his front door so that he has to kill them instead of finishing his housework before the rest of the family…

No, I see where there’s a hypocrisy, though I personally read it as a kind of insecurity instead of egotism: the issue isn’t so much the changes as it is that Lucas the film preservationist can’t accord Lucas the director the respect he has for other directors. And he won’t give his audience the opportunity/experience…

I remember seeing the special edition New Hope in the theater and being dismayed at how loud it was—stuff like the Millennium Falcon cockpit suddenly beeping and booping and clicking in ways that had me wondering how you could fly it and not lose your mind.

I’ve been saying it for decades; I’m irrelevant, but I’ll say it again: someone (used to be Lucas/Fox, now it would be Disney) could make a fortune releasing a Star Wars box like The Complete Blade Runner or the 3-disc Criterion Brazil (which even included—for completists and masochists alike—the dreadful “Love…

“Who are you?!”

Jodorowsky’s Dune was also sort of infamous in prog rock trivia circles for the greatest soundtrack never recorded angle: most famously Pink Floyd were attached and I think maybe Magma at some point, and there was another version of the lore that claimed Jodorowsky wanted a different prog band for every planet.

I’m not a fan, though I caved when they did Stephen King and Molly, Thing of Evil, which I took out of the box as soon as I got them and put them in a prominent position on the desk where I don’t write so they could watch me not writing and cheer me on in my ongoing attempts to not write.

Your announcement has me wondering if I’ll have much reason to revisit the site. I’m genuinely sorry some people in the community have been so terrible. I probably should’ve said before now that I’ve found your work here engaging and provocative; sometimes I agreed with you and sometimes i didn’t, but you were always…

SHERIFF RILEY: It’s a damn shame, Sidney. If they’d just kept those carbon monoxide detectors up to date, they’d still be with us. You know, it’s funny to think a colorless, odorless gas can wreak as much carnage as a masked maniac with a knife, but it’s true. More than four hundred Americans die every year from…

The Mi-go went to a great deal of trouble to convince everyone Yuggoth was Pluto, so you can all stop looking, and Pluto isn’t even a planet, so you can just put the Mi-go down to the purple-prose fantasies of a racist crank pulp weird fiction writer because there’s certainly nothing colonizing that icy little rock…

Yeah. I didn’t hate MSON, but I thought it was two good movies and a third okay movie crammed into one film, and (ironically) the least interesting of those three movies was the Baby Tony origin story that gave the whole affair it’s raison d’être. I’d have been much happier watching a movie about the Newark riots. Or…

The Coens’ True Grit also works because it’s an adaptation of Charles Portis’ pretty brilliant novel, while the 1969 True Grit is a pretty good John Wayne movie (what it’s not, for whatever it’s worth, is much of an adaptation of the novel).

I dunno: I suspect if the band is still around in five years under this name and anybody cares, they’ll assume it’s about a cursed piece of parchment or a history of death magick or something. So, while I personally find it cheesy, it probably has longer legs (at least as far as people thinking they know what the name…

It wasn’t a quarantine hobby, I’ve played since I was a teen, but quarantine *was* more time to start playing again after a long hiatus where I rarely picked up a guitar. And playing more during quarantine was the excuse I needed to give myself to get a new Gretsch I saw a deal on. So, yeah, guilty as well.

Sort of a Romeo and Juliet thing.

At the time, the worms in the Lynch version really grabbed a mixed reaction. One of my favorite lines in any movie review ever came from Gahan Wilson in Twilight Zone Magazine, who compared the worms to large salamis being shoved around a sandbox.

Yeah. Back in the day, everyone kinda understood that the giant skeleton in the background when 3P0 is bumbling around Tattooine was a kind of Dune homage, what would now be called an Easter Egg.

Sure, but his conclusion is still specious: Covenant didn’t underperform because audiences did or didn’t want xenomorphs, it underperformed because audiences didn’t want a second experience as disappointing as Prometheus was. Scott can’t admit that Prometheus was a fairly bad movie (assuming he even has sufficient…

Misogyny, racism, and a touch of myopic ignorance. I was kind of blown away (and felt like I’d been pretty stupid) when I learned about Yoko’s pre-John Lennon career—Fluxus, being mentored by John Cage, collaborations with artists like Ornette Coleman—and realized she was the Serious Artist and part of what drew…