Deep-fried Moon Pies are already a thing at state fairs, though I don't think anyone's added a stick yet.

Fox has the TV rights for the entire Bat-franchise (at least for live action), even though Gotham is moving at such a pace that it'll be about 17 more seasons before they have the chance to bring in Batwoman. And anyway the CW would probably be the better fit for a Kate Kane Batwoman series.

Is there any quick, at least semi-automated way to save the comments I've made through the old Disqus system? I know the old comments are supposed to be carried over, but I'm not particularly confident about that seeing how Kinja is an abominable piece of shit and all.

Not really pop culture, but there's a movie called Are We Really So Far From a Madhouse? that I caught once at a theatrical screening and which has become kind of a holy grail for me (it's not available on home video and I haven't even been able to find a bootleg circulating online). It's ostensibly a tour/concert…

I will say for the benefit of those with qualms about piracy that Netflix picked up the U.S. streaming rights, though I have no clue when it'll appear on the service.

Would love to see Nocturama, but per the distributor's website it's playing in all of two cities this week, with two one off-screenings elsewhere in the middle of next week. Not surprisingly, none of those are anywhere near me and neither are any of the future playdates, which look pretty sparse at the moment.…

The upshot is that this allows me to imagine my own sexy solutions to the sexy sexual mysteries, the brain being the most erogenous zone of them all. After the genitals, of course.

Finally, a perfect double-feature companion for Khrustalyov, My Car!

The limited release is December 1st and the wide release is a week later, so yeah. Not much chance of James Franco accepting an Oscar in character as Tommy Wiseau (or better yet, having the real deal accept in his stead).

I've shilled a lot for Soi Cheang here, but I've really been waiting for 2007, since Shamo is my favorite of his work (which is admittedly very far from a consensus opinion). It belongs to that odd strain of Hong Kong films adapted from Japanese manga with mostly HK actors in Japanese roles (see also: City Hunter, Init…

MK4 will always be a high point of the series just for this: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Festival premiere in '96 but U.S. commercial release in '97 (which goes for a number of the films on the list, like Crash and Irma Vep).

Pretty good list I reckon. I'm not wild about the "released theatrically in America sometime in '97" rule because too much great stuff never gets released theatrically in America, as I realized when I tried to compile my own list. I only got to 15 (and won't bother ranking it past #1, which for me is a no-brainer) but…

And Homecoming will probably do the same after it finally opens in China.

Not for S, though—the lower-case form isn't even used in Klingon. D is the same way. Q/q is the only letter in Klingon that has upper- and lower-case forms with distinct pronunciations (arguably H too, but lower-case h is only used in combination with other letters and has no pronunciation of its own). The upper-case…

The Spitfire Grill was the biggest sale out of Sundance until Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and that was way back in 1996. The '90s were when independent film distribution went from shoestring outfits that would kill to gross $1 million on anything to studio arms and VC-fueled startups all trying to be the next…

The hilarious thing is that the two iterations of Dummy aren't even the only ventrioquism-themed villains in Batman lore. There's also three (!) versions of the Ventriloquist, one of which made it to the animated series (though unfortunately without his speech "impediment" stemming from the consonant substitutions…

It sounds like this article isn't entirely on the level, but just to add to the idea that religion-related expressions can exist independently of religious belief, Communist leaders quite often made use of them—Stalin (a onetime seminarian whose turn to atheism has never been seriously questioned) said things like…

Guy Maddin likes it too! There's a hilarious interview where he's asked if he prefers Metropolis or Moonfleet and answers "Hate to say it, but Moonraker."

All the talk of "grim and gritty" makes me want to give a shoutout to Dog Bite Dog, a Hong Kong hitman flick notable for its absolutely punishing bleakness—loads of action, but none of it really calculated to thrill, instead drawing out the psychic(al) toll it takes on victims and perpetrators alike. I feel like the…