I suspect that Hastings shifted the company primarily into streaming early because of the support the DVD business was requiring — I recall reading an article about the huge number of DVD inspectors they were employing (working at rows of tables in hangar-like buildings, eyeballing which disks were getting a bit too…

Though it’s the opportunity to do all the adventurous “boys own” stuff in a “guilt free” context that keeps drawing writers and directors back to WWII. Conflicts like Vietnam, the Middle East, or even Korea, certainly have political/cultural baggage that would weigh on any such approach in the 21st century.

I didn’t get the sense of there being that much of an agenda behind the “Good War” meme. In fact, I think it was meant to distinguish WWII as lacking the fundamental moral ambiguity of most other US conflicts. Such criticisms as there are of US involvement in WWII tend to be focused either on the use of the atomic…

Based on his back-of-the-envelope calculation, you could lower the energy requirements by 90% and still have to fit 15+ reactors in your mole. That seems pretty thoroughly impractical.

Sort of like if Spielberg had directed Grosse Point Blank.

While Rosemary’s Baby is no doubt the superior film, I’ll give a shout out to 1975's Race With The Devil as a highly effective scaled-up Satanic cult film. No matter where you flee in rural Texas, the cult is lurking, and watching... and eventually hurling themselves at you murderously like an outdoor version of Assaul…

Clearly she’s a big fan of Dawson’s Creek in some alternate universe.

That was a major distinction between the US and Japanese Navies. Numerous US ships held on in spite of catastrophic damage, while many Japanese vessels had relatively minor damage escalate until they sank (two of their larger aircraft carriers, Shinano and Taiho, sank hours after single torpedo hits). Some of this was…

The location of the ship’s original stern section, and subsequently the final resting place of 71 U.S. sailors...

For the record, I recently sold a still shrinkwrapped boxed set of the original D&D books to Jon Peterson, author of the popular history of D&D’s creation, Playing at the World.

Certainly a dramatic innovation like sound or color seems like a legitimate invitation to do some remakes.

Particularly remakes or “re-boots” of films maybe a decade old or less.

Honestly, the Kiss/Evil angle is kind of the cherry on top for me.

Wasn’t opining so much on the quality per se — just the degree of leaning on that “problematic” theme of “zombies > humans”.

Pray that’s all that he does with it!

“eBay Brushes with Greatness” needs to be a new feature here.

How’d you guess the newest award on the televised Oscars™?

So has there been a vampires vs. zombies book or movie yet, or should I get to work now so I can sue everyone for copyright infringement later?

Romero himself spiraled down that drain of absurdity, hitting bottom with Land of the Dead.

That NJT extension project apparently involves the Paulinskill Viaduct, which does have its own, unfortunately brief, page.