One or the other of the various HD premium channels (I think MGM HD) has occasionally shown for the past couple of years, but it looks so bad I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they just upscaled an old SD master.

Kevin Sherlock's performance (?) here is great, but it's no longer a one-off: in Doyle's most recent film (Hong Kong Trilogy) he has a supporting role as the ne plus ultra of the expat English teacher in Asia, i.e. a guy who's constantly drunk and has named his students after alcoholic beverages.

Boredoms on Warner/Reprise has to be up there.

Just use all the vengeful relatives from the comic: Mrs. Mahoney, Mrs. Pruneface, Poptop, Blowtop, Sharptop, Angeltop, Hi-Top, Flattop Jr….

The Aviator ended with Hughes in his early 40s while the Beatty film has Hughes portrayed by an actor old enough to be Leo's grandfather. So I'm assuming it'll be about the Old Hughes who lost the voting contest for the postage stamp, though Beatty is probably the type of guy to believe he could still play Hughes in…

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I really appreciated the importance of DX because it allowed me to run Quake in a stamp-sized window on a 486/33.

Still looks better than Naqoyqatsi.

The real twist: the whole movie is this

Joel McHale as Chevy Chase: You know what I used to eat for breakfast? Cocaine. You know what I used to eat for lunch? Cocaine.

I'll always remember him from All or Nothing, where he was the unpleasant son who refused to get off the couch and bawled out his parents for suggesting he go out and do something.

I'll be honest, I don't remember any of this except "You must think in Russian" and that bit where the wounded Russian scientist is dying on the floor of the burning hangar and watches Eastwood (or his stand-in) in head-to-toe flight gear walking to the jet. But damn, that was a great moment.

Besson wrote a sequel called Mathilda, but the story goes that there's a lot of bad blood between Gaumont and Besson (who bolted from Gaumont after The Messenger and started his own company) and that's kept it from happening. Given that Olivier Megaton was supposed to direct, we may have dodged a bullet.

I saw this once years ago on an awful-looking laserdisc-sourced bootleg DVD and am psyched to finally see it again in a genuinely watchable edition, though I'm using every ounce of my willpower to hold off on the Blu-ray until after it gets a theatrical screening here (Austin) in June.

Jumper (which I assume is not in line for a future installment of this column) filmed a scene there, under incredibly strict rules like "no props."

-Where's Hanson?
-Uh, how should I know?
-Well, you had them!
-Oh, Haaanson!…Yeah, we got that comb.
-Yeah, and?
-And, uh, then I took them home to be with their dad.
-Then why is he on the phone looking for them? At his house?
-Hang up.

The best part of Grant Morrison's mostly lousy Supergods is his take on Adam West's performance: "His flat, earnest delivery may have amused the chortling Playboy set, but every child knew that was exactly how a superhero would talk."

It opens in NYC this week. GKIDS normally releases both dubbed and subtitled versions and lets the theaters choose. In New York the IFC Center is showing the dubbed version before 3 PM and the original version after 3.

The Criterion Ghostbusters doesn't have all the deleted scenes (it's missing nine that were later included on the DVD/Blu-ray), but it does have one that was never released anywhere else, unless the internet counts. It also had this immortal extra that single-handedly justified the $100 MSRP.

There was also a laserdisc, which is probably the best "legitimate" release (and goes for upwards of $300 these days). But even the LD is inferior to a bootleg made from an off-air BBC recording, which is actually in widescreen unlike all the official releases (the movie was already cropped to widescreen for…