It never left. Plus someone's already done an HTML5 version for whenever Flash is finally scoured from the face of the earth: https://html5zombo.com/

When Nathan sought to prove that a successful job interview is all about attitude by looking confident while being fed answers by a seven-year-old ("Do you like skateboarding?"), Jon Benjamin ("You can call me Nathan, or you can call me by my nickname, the N-word"), and a turtle.

I haven't seen the Netflix special but I liked the one he did for Comedy Central a few years back. Someone in the audience asked about O.J. and Norm launched into a great bit about the prison "pecking order," with O.J. unsuccessfully trying to convince the other cons that he was actually guilty of double murder ("Come…

My main watch this week was Bamy (or maybe BAMY; either way I don't think the title is ever explained), a Japanese indie made on a shoestring budget of around $6k but doing a credible job of evoking/aping the Kurosawa Kiyoshi mode. The plot's the sort of horror-adjacent high concept that I can imagine Kurosawa doing…

So I guess this is gonna be one of those in-name-only sequels then

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For me the most unnerving part of the original film isn't the meathooks or the skeleton chairs or anything like that, but the painfully protracted dinner scene with the family bickering like morons and Grandpa licking the blood from Sally's finger. A big part of what unsettles me about it is how it seems to be going…

The creepiest shot in the movie is the closeup of the doorknob.

The promotional making-of doc for this is hilarious (in a sort of grim way) because all of the on-set footage shows Spielberg working with the crew, talking to the actors etc. and the credited director barely even appears.

It would've been about Portman's character.

The Fifth Element belongs to Gaumont, which is apparently still pissed at Besson for striking out on his own and blocked a planned Léon sequel a few years ago. If they're not willing to budge for a Léon 2 (which would be pretty close to a sure thing) then a Fifth Element sequel is even less likely.

I'm reminded of how Bill & Ted's Three Most Important People in the World were played by Clarence Clemons, Martha Davis, and Fee Waybill, but that's still a lot less incongruous than Herbie Hancock showing up as the protagonists' boss in a Euro-sci-fi movie released in 2017.

It's Wesley Snipes' time to shine

It's serendipitous that Election came out in 2005 because Johnnie To understood that well—there's little (maybe even no) gun violence in either of the two films because guns seem more glamorous and less brutal than machetes and 2x4s etc., and To was out to make Triads look genuinely unpleasant. (It also made the…

This might be classed as a hot take in some quarters, but I actually prefer the sequel. The action isn't as groundbreaking but the choreography is at least as good and feels more visceral, the additions of Jaa and Zhang Jin more than make up for the absence of Yen and Sammo, the plot is bonkers in a "we know people…

There's a Monty Python bit (from the "Cycling Tour" episode) where John Cleese starts delivering a speech in very labored pseudo-Russian with subtitles, then says "Forgive me if I continue in English in order to save time."

It sounds more like How to Beat the High Cost of Living, but from the synopsis I'm thinking this will be more about the aftermath of the heist.

"He's not just some dingbat I found on the strip. He's a foreigner. I think he's probably Samoan."

I wear a Looney Tunes T-shirt occasionally, but it's a thrift-store find with the Tasmanian Devil inexplicably placed above the words "PART TIME LOVER," so it's probably not the same thing.

In China the set figure for major foreign films (those released under the import quota) is only 25%—though the studios have lower distribution costs, since most of those are assumed by the state-run China Film Group. So there's been a lot of effort put into figuring out ways to wring more money out of China, like…