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Exorcist III is pretty great. Even though I know they're coming, there are a couple jolts in that movie that get me every time. I love the way George C. Scott chews up and spits out most of his line readings, such as the part where he's ranting about the things the Gemini Killer did which were never released to the…

i checked out the blu-ray from the library about a month ago and i thought it held up just fine. my TV isn't an 80 inch behemoth or anything but i thought the picture was crazy crisp and incredibly detailed, especially compared to the experience of watching movies on VHS on a 16-inch console TV like we frequently did…

my ex-wife (who grew up in a community where there was a kid named Phil McCracken!) told me about something a little kid screamed at her when she was lifeguarding and told the kids not to run on the deck or to try hitting the trashcan when they threw their Slurpee cups away or whatever it was.

…said the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department.

that's kind of reductive - why couldn't the publisher actually hire the artists and writers as employees, providing regular wages and benefits in exchange for meeting some regular content production deadlines? and, hey, maybe they even provide some support and intervention (you know, management) when people run into…

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FORGET A STRANGER IN THE ALPS!!!1!

it's interesting to evaluate some contemporary "neo-noir" by the same criteria - i'm thinking of stuff like The Big Lebowski or Brick or especially John Dahl's stuff, like Red Rock West and The Last Seduction. so far as i know, none of 'em score on the European director but are otherwise pretty solid entries:

looks like amazon has the complete series for little less than $14… which i'm tempted not to blab about until i buy it for myself since it looks like the number of copies is limited (maybe others prompted by these interviews?).

i actually let out a whoop and yelled SLEDGE!! in the movie theatre when he showed up in that movie and got a bunch of incredulous looks from the people around me, including my then-wife… and an over-the-shoulder thumbs-up from from a proto-typical Comic Book Dude a couple rows below us, who no-shit turned out to be…

i've never been into Variety reporting or following intricacies of "the industry" but i always thought ABC in the mid-to-late 80s had two completely opposing groups working in programming: on the one hand, you had all the pap-bullshit like Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, Full House, the show about dinosaurs and a…

not like an animal - don't say that about yourself. buck up, friend!

and if you want to get that stuff dirt cheap, take a road trip to the upper tip of WV where the Homer Laughlin factory is located. if you live here in WV, you might even plan your visit to coincide with the goofy-ass WV Day holiday in late June, which is usually when they have one of their big tent sales - it's a lot…

isn't this the guy whose concert is featured as a prominent plot point in one of the episodes of that aziz ansari show on netflix? if so, i'd say he got a pretty good deal of exposure from that. if, on the other hand, i'm confusing him with some other musical act then, yeah, i guess he needs to keep grinding it out…

just read the Forbes article mentioned and i have to say i thought most of what that dude had to say was utter horseshit.

huh - that's interesting. in america, i usually understand talk about diversity to be a code word for "women" or "racial minorities" - i'm not saying my understanding is universal (i'm a white dude,so i have biases and filters) but i never really considered it in terms of the elitist distinction regarding the classes.

someone on here linked to a buzzfeed article with the filmmakers and i don't remember who it was or i'd give credit. it's a good article but i would have been interested to learn more about their process, particularly how they managed to make a living while spending a large part of a decade putting together a…

what?!

no - the FBI put a shifty dude who couldn't stop blinking his eyes* up on the stand to testify about test results without giving any evidence as to how the test was conducted, how much was measured, how must of the preservative the test could have detected if any was present,etc. as the rebuttal witness the defense…

So, you're saying it is okay to eat Ugnaughts, Mon Calamari and… there must be some kind of Star Wars character based on dolphins, right? I mean, you''ve got teddy bears, hammerheads, slugs, all kinds of tentacle people… and the human-centric workforce of the Empire / First Order basically means they're like Klan but…