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Lugosi in Plan 9 doesn’t belong on any “best” list. And how can you put Liotta on the list without apparently having seen his performance in Cocaine Bear?

I find it odd that you mentioned two of the time period’s Vic Morrow visits, but not Vietnam, which actually killed him & the child actors. That’s why there was a…

I had GTA 2 on the Dreamcast. I preferred managing the various gang meters and playing them all off each other to the more linear progression of missions in GTA 3 (though I will acknowledge the over-the-shoulder perspective is much better for things like platforming compared to the top-down one of 2). I heard…

How many sorts of Christmas holidays are there? There’s White Christmas, Blue Christmas & Black Christmas, but that’s the extent of my pop-culture knowledge.

I don’t remember Abbott in Vox Lux. I do remember him in Piercing & Possessor.

Usually the term “biopic” indicates more of a person’s life is going to be featured, indicating why they became famous in the first place. Are Pablo Larrain’s “Neruda”, “Jackie” or “Spencer” biopics?

The lynchers are all dead by now, so they no longer have feelings to hurt.

I found it strange that when I looked up Kurt Wimmer I saw that he’d already made a Children of the Corn movie in 2020... but that just meant it didn’t get distributed until 3 years after it premiered. Surely a good sign.

George Orwell’s anti-communist fable Animal Farm

If it was credited to anyone other than Del Toro, I think it would just be remembered as a lame sequel.

I prefer the original Blade to Del Toro’s sequel. His best movies are in Spanish.

I’ll say this for the Neil Marshall Hellboy: I was actually willing to sit through it, unlike the Del Toro one that I quit early on. Unfortunately, it may be the very last film I saw before I started commenting at The Popculturists instead of the Pop Culture Disqus channel formed by AVC exiles of the Kinjapocalypse,…

I have seen Triangle. It’s not as good as TimeCrimes (which uses a stable timeloop), but it can be defended as depicting hell rather than scifi time travel.

What determines the speed at which the picture fades?

The movie is explicitly inspired by La Jetee and forms a stable time loop, as described above.

A review from someone who seems to know her stuff:

If only...

“Life can only be understood by looking backward,” the famed 19th Century existentialist Søren Kierkegaard opined, “but it must be lived looking forward.” Then again, the venerable and dynamic film genre we know as the “time loop movie” had yet to be invented

The gore, however, is ample