She’s pretty musically savvy, though her tastes favor Asian pop. She has some knowledge of ‘80s pop, New Wave, etc., but there’s a difference between vague awareness of such things and actually sitting down to witness it.

Not sure I’d class the narrator of Paradise by the Dashboard Light as an “outright villain” so much as an Al Bundy-like pathetic victim of his own poor judgment. Even as he laments, he proclaims he’ll “never break my promise or forget my vow”. We can only imagine how much his spouse may wish he would, but karma seems…

Steinman’s “recycling” and self-plagiarism are notorious, though I don’t believe he produced that Bonnie Tyler album. Whoever did seems to have been trying his best to reach for Steinman excess, though.

My daughter was reading Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities for school. The book opens with some of the characters in a stagecoach in a thick fog, with the coachmen on the lookout for highwaymen. We were trying to think of something to communicate the specifics of that English “trope”, and settled on the Adam and the Ants…

I’m not sure how else but a “shimmer” you could depict a hue “unlike any known colours of the normal spectrum”. Perhaps you could show it as ultraviolet, playing to the tiny percentage of the population that can actually perceive that, or maybe go the pedantic route and just depict it as magenta, making the story into…

Yep. That was part of the trend. ;)

Fair enough — even if entirely artificial models might eventually be feasible, the original story was predicated on a kind of “middle state” in the evolution of the technology as well. You might alternatively have the evil IP owner knocking off the heirs of already deceased celebrities who are obstructing/demanding…

<35-year old spoiler>

Andromeda is also interestingly scientifically dated — the lengthy decontamination procedures for the scientists entering the “Wildfire” facility essentially require them to purge all the bacteria from both the outside and inside of their bodies. Back then, all such microorganisms were essentially considered…

Though we’ve also essentially bypassed the requirement for human models/actors at all. You could do a “reimagining” touching on all those themes, but I don’t see the murder/plastic surgery plot as having much relevance.

I think art-house films as a US “thing” date well back into the ‘50s, largely revolving around foreign film (the first Oscar for that being awarded in 1947). Candyman might count as one of the earlier examples of art-house horror, though I recall it getting a pretty wide theatrical release (probably on the box office…

I’d highly recommend seeing Candyman. Contrary to the headline, I’d hardly describe it as “the purest of slashers”. It’s much more “mythic” in tone than all that, and along with touching on poverty, race, and “privilege” (a term I don’t throw around lightly), it also digs into the mechanics of myth and folklore. It…

They’re vulcanized!

non-Evil, historical Lincoln did supposedly have a Confederate $5 bill in his pocket the night he was assassinated.

It’s a bit more complicated than that, but it seems to have had a mostly decimal structure.

Is it just me, or does Musk look an awful lot like John Candy in that header pic?

Indeed it is. Thanks for spotting him, even though it raises further questions...

Yeah. he has spoken at least once. He should be represented, and that would be the most appropriate way.

Peter Pescadero could be wearing the mask (which I believe Gene technically gave back to him) and borrowing the burger suit. Unless Peter’s tucked away separately in that pic somewhere. I’d have a hell of a time recognizing him if he were.

—most blatantly by actually repurposing deleted scenes from it as flashbacks, an admittedly ingenious device—