I think the embedded song is a cover of a Flipper song.

As long as Herzog is directing I'm cool with it.

I think it's "teach him to crush his own head and he'll curse you for not crushing his head."

That doesn't give you much time to check out Hyperdrive. It's fucking wonderful, except for the first episode which may have tried a bit too hard.

A brief visit to youtube confirms it. Those are indeed the shambling plant-things that snatched whatsisface off the boat. I think it was on PBS once but I only got to see one or two episodes.

Also the reason Alien is horror and Aliens etc are Sci-fi.

While we're on old NZ shows, does anyone remember one about kids fighting an invasion of Shoggoth-looking aliens?. I remember tentacles coming out of the sea and drowning a kid, which was pretty heavy even for the 80's

Not too recent I know, but Secret of Kells is brilliant and not afraid to scare. And that final scene with the animated illuminations, holy shit.

My daughter, who bails on a movie if someone is mean to someone else, has seen Pom Poko about 40 times, half of them in Japanese. Last Summer somebody brought a couple of baby Tanuki to the fair in Leicester and she was bouncing off the walls.

The Plague Dogs. A book so depressing that the ending includes an apology and an alternate ending.

I had the picture book from that movie, and I got pretty good at turning two pages at a time when necessary. The frame of the rabbits straining upward as the bulldozers cut off their air supply freaked me the fuck out. Watching the movie was easier for me because those scenes went by so fast.

A skeleton walks into a bar and says to the barkeep, "give me a pitcher of beer and a mop!"

This song is hilarious. I fucking love it.

"Nice job, Weird Al" is usually a pretty safe bet.

Even though I quit smoking 20 years ago, and have come to abhor the practice, the anti-smoking rant still gives me a twinge of irritation. The smug ones are the worst.

I'm not coming up with any scenarios where that's not creepy.

You could just warn her that there is a conflict of interests because you're attracted to her. The situation is common enough, and sometimes finding a disinterested shoulder to cry on is too much to expect. On the other hand, I strongly recommend maintaining a hands-off policy with people who are gluttons for…

Fool me four times…

Plus you'll be giving fuel to every lazy-ass maintenance guy who thinks the presence of a woman in the apartment building gives him licence to blame her for whatever goes wrong with the plumbing

I guess I mean a list of movies in which Pacino isn't acting like a cartoon. Pacino plays plenty of ordinary people, but has become famous for playing them to excess. Seeing him in DB was like seeing the old Pacino, who took up only as much space as he needed to.