I enjoyed the original Shrek, but I enjoyed the sequel much more — and not just for “sexy” and “ass”. However abbreviated, it seems to have a better structured narrative. Lord Farquaad is a pretty clueless, and never particularly menacing, villain. And when the dragon shows up, he’s dispensed with pretty casually. The…

I don’t hate Thor: The Dark World, and I’ve defended it before, but it’s clearly at the low end of any ranking of the franchise.

I do indeed recall at least one case in the ‘30s of a serial murderer managing to invoke insanity to escape the death penalty, only to meet his end in Nazi medical experimentation.

Godzilla in that sewer fight strongly resembles a fire-breathing pickle...

Earlier in the trailer it appeared that they’d taken one of the Iowa-class battleships out of mothballs, presumably to face the kaiju threat, so I guess that’s not entirely out of the question.

His score for Cronenberg’s The Fly was pretty strong, though definitely less known. It always makes me chuckle to remember him leading the “All Nurse Band” for Lily Tomlin’s rendition of “St. James Infirmary” on SNL back in the day.

My favorite ever gag name was the Paladin “Toogo - of the Holy Order of Fries”.

I’m in a similar boat, having moved away from D&D into other tabletop systems in the early ‘80s - started with “White Box” in 1975-76 and barely had any experience with anything after 1st ed. AD&D. There’ve been many different published campaign settings in the intervening decades, though, plus all the novel series…

Vin Mariani adherents included Ulysses S. Grant (who was drunk for most of his life, but was also coke-drunk when he wrote his presidential memoirs)

I found that physical bullying and outright harassment vastly diminished after jr. high/middle school — Perhaps because my high school was significantly larger, and there was more room to hang out with friendly cliques instead of being more socially cramped, but perhaps also because there were more lower-tier geeks…

He’s kind of like a George Lucas who can actually direct human actors.

I had just assumed it was a complete non-sequitur — that, at most, it might have been chosen for its dweeby contrast with the relative elegance and panache of the name “Vincent Price”, and his persona.

I tried to get that album at my local record store at the time, but it didn’t have it. Really could have used some fixin’...

I vaguely recall some sort of resurgence of “Root Hog or Die” in the 1970s — turning up on T-shirts or jacket patches. And thank you, Mr. Vago, for explaining it at last.

Wilder herself seems to have embellished or garbled the tale, but she did apparently claim that her father had been part of a vigilante group that had dealt frontier justice to the Bender family, who were a sort of Sweeney Todd-like band of murderous innkeepers. That would certainly have made for a “very special…

I was in more-or-less their target demographic at their debut — in high school, far more interested in “new wave” and dawning ‘80s pop than I’d ever been in the music of the ‘70s, and starting to keep hours that nicely synced with a 24 hour format (which was itself a novelty at the time). Around the 20 year mark, as…

I have to point out that pro-wrestlers were in there from near the beginning, since Cindi Lauper’s branding team-up with Lou Albano in the wake of the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” video, and the “Rock ‘n’ Wrestling” era.

That air of stability and responsibility is what typically got her cast as a “straight woman”, both in SNL sketches and in her sitcom roles. Prymaat is about as “zany” as she got on stage, which might have been a motivation for her in playing the part again, in spite of the discomfort.

It won’t be on Netflix. It’s made for the Weather Channel.

This exactly. The “backstory” here, as well as the elements you raise, completely contradict the theme of the original story. Mrs. Geisel’s missing that betrayal is even more bewildering than her overlooking the “key party” reference. There was room in expanding this story to explore a lot of interesting themes of echo…