I feel genuinely sorry for you, truly.

funny you say that; while the characters represent the nadir of the show prepping to sustain itself for endless seasons, I think the actual Nikki and Paolo episode is a lot of fun and very indicative of the course correction in the back half of S3.

I liked it, although maybe it’s because I have a poor sense of direction and so I can see the horror in getting lost and realizing that you’ve been walking in circles easier than others. Like others have said, its primary sin was that it spawned a whole slew of found-footage movies with nauseating shaky hand-held…

I’d say so. Of all the found footage movies that have been made since, it’s still far more believable than the vast majority of them. It feels precisely like what you’d get from three young hopeful documentarians getting lost in the woods. That can make it grating at points, but it also makes things work extremely…

They should really lean into the 2000s nostalgia and only air it on broadcast TV and then put it on DVD.

All you really need is John Hurt and George Baker bonding over porn, and Patrick Stewart sniffing in disapproval.

Blood Simple is definitely his greatest role, but I also really enjoyed his small role in Raising Arizona as “machine shop ear-bender”, we’ve all known someone like that at work. I think I might have even been that guy on occasion.

“Once again: it is not the media’s job, nor has it ever been the media’s job, to overlook the flaws in your favorite candidate just because you view it as necessary for the greater good.”

I would however agree with Jon that just because we don’t want Trump, doesn’t mean we should be closing our fucking eyes and pretending Grandpa’s doin’ fine up there while every other Democrat makes TV appearances to tell us that Joe’s actually as sharp as a tack... behind the scenes.

Good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor — he is equal to all now.

Why the fuck would I want to do that?

I remember when being hip to Albert Brooks (and, incredibly, David Letterman) was like being in the world’s smallest club. His filmed bits from the early days of “Saturday Night Live” were amazing, particularly one that was a parody of NBC’s fall schedule promos featuring a show called “Black Vet” about a black…

I was an editor for 10+ years on this show. It was an extremely close-knit, family-type group of professionals and a pretty special place to work. Me, along with most of the rest of the Post Production team, quit in 2018 when EP/Showrunner Joe Sungkur was let go, and Andrew Linares and Alex Cross were brought in to…

She was a gorgeous woman with appropriately bewitching eyes who slid into her “Dark Shadows” role with such a perfect flair for camp she gave Jonathan Frid a run for his money. While she was a frequent face on the television of my youth I remain surprised that she was never a bigger thing. Still, she took it all in…

This is a pretty bold move to slam one of the most important and influential American writers of all time just to try and promote your own shit. (Yes bro, it is bliiiiiindingly obvious that that is your own book. You’ve posted it elsewhere on Kinja before. Can’t you even, like, get a family member or something to give…

Came to say exactly this.
They slapped the Poe name on it as a cheap marketing ploy, but once you get past the opening credits, The Haunted Castle is quite clearly a straight-up adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - done in the signature Corman style. (With some random rubber snakes thrown in, just because.)

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Criterion is awesome.

I loved that the Criterion Channel managed to get the rights to all eight Corman-Poe movies for the months of August and September.

While “The Haunted Palace” deserves it’s criticism for sacrificing Lovecraft’s authorship of the story for the more popularly known at the time Poe, the film itself is a well done adaptation with some excellent visuals and color photography and an excellent performance by Price.

Echo and the Bunnymen, “Nocturnal Me”. Still the best needle-drop moment on Stranger Things. Yeah, including “Running Up That Hill”, I’m going there.