Right when he was about to become Goldwatch! Dastardly.

It's not only shorter than a regular episode of the TV show, but it's much shorter than This Island Earth's original run time.

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Weirdly enough, I just "discovered" Commander USA this week while trying to find a way to watch Hammer's "Abominable Snowman." Some kind soul had uploaded the entire program with commercials (!) to YouTube. The jokes were terrible, the production values were miserable and pretty much everything about it screamed…

"Hando" is already the preferred term for Han/Lando slash fiction, anyway. (I don't know if this is true, and I'm not Googling it.)

Say what you will, but I was impressed that this movie made me jump a little just seeing a girl walk down a sand dune in broad daylight. The only knocks I had about It Follows were the scenes where we actually see the monster assault its target. An invisible thing yanking someone's hair looks kind of silly. The rest…

They are flawed movies, and you're right that the first one indulges Zombie's "haunted house" aesthetic to a degree that it drowns out the bland settings that made the Carpenter version so unnerving. The sequel is stronger in that way because it's not locked into following the structure of another movie and Zombie is…

It begins and ends with Lucas being out of the picture, honestly. Very few people trusted him to make anything of value ever again after realizing how clunky and self-indulgent Phantom Menace was. Promising that Lucas would have nothing to do with the new movies was the most efficient way to bring the nerd-hype levels…

I don't think Zombie showing Michael's home life should be mistaken as an attempt to explain why he kills. There are lots of kids who grow up the same way Michael Myers did in the movie, and sometimes it just leads to a closet full of Fangoria back issues. Zombie is careful not to connect Michael's first killing spree…

It's never made as explicit in the original series as it was in Zombie's movies, but the throughline in Halloween is that Loomis is a terrible doctor.

I wanted to say almost the exact same thing, thank you. Zombie's Halloween does nothing to diminish the unknowable nature of Michael Myers, in my opinion. In fact, seeing behind the curtain at Michael's fucked-up home life is scary because it's actually really mundane. Michael isn't being raised by serial killers in…

"Ultmate Fan Experience?" How in the hell can anyone be a fan of something they haven't even seen yet? *adjusts Captain Phasma action figure on desk*

Netflix took "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "The Exorcist" down two days ago. (sad trombone)

"Some of the best Simpsons episodes have mined Marge and Homer’s
relationship for truly memorable, affecting, and funny stories where the
couple—individually or together—has walked right up to the edge of
divorce."

You are too kind, your Space Holiness.

I am deeply embarrassed that this simple fact did not occur to me at all.

I think Jack fits the Miss Piggy role better than Jenna - his egomania, his constant attempts to derail Liz's plans for the show, his attempts to seduce Liz into his line of thinking. Jenna's blind faith in her own talent and insecurity makes her more like Fozzie than Tracy, who is totally Gonzo. Kenneth is 100%…

That joke struck me as needlessly cruel until I realized that even though they've been right next to each other in every Muppet thing for 40-plus years, Piggy and Fozzie really have never had that much to do with each other. Like, does anyone remember Piggy ever addressing Fozzie by name?

Grown-Ups.

I wouldn't be surprised if DC got some letters from doctors back then because kids were afraid of getting chest x-rays because of what they had seen Superman do with x-rays.