Right. Thanos could undo it all himself. Eventually decides that giving up Gamora was not worth it and rewinds time to back before he killed here and then doesn’t. No soul stone, no fully loaded infinity gauntlet, no killing all the people. Ideally this would happen after the heroes have all tried their best to beat…

“The Void” from last year is exactly the kind of movie they would have covered. They’re still making interesting horror, there’s just so much formulaic mainstream horror out there now the unique stuff gets lost in the shuffle.

The word “robot” was invented by a Czech writer named Karel Čapek and is based on the Slavanic words for slave or servitude and comes with all the associated baggage built in. You can’t make a robot without being a slave owner.

Great example of 80s AI is Electric Dreams. Its interesting because its not a programmed AI but a computer which becomes sentient when, uh, he spills champagne on it. It ends up falling love with his neighbor, there’s a jealous rivalry with the owner, then in the end, if I remember right, it decides a human could…

Club Dread? I think I liked that one. Though haven’t rewatched it in a decade or so.

Carrot Flowers 2, awesome though it is, is incredibly awkward to sing along too at least at the beginning. “I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIIIIIIIST! JESUS CHRIST I LOVE YOOOOOOOU!”

I think it was a comic book movie mostly made for kids. I was a kid when I saw it and loved it. It had some moments that were funny as hell at the time, like the “Intro to Runway Modelling” book or whatever that worked its way into the battle with the big villain. But its not hard to imagine those moments may not work…

The Descent came out over a decade earlier and also featured blind creatures hunting humans by sound. War of the Worlds came out in the 50s with aliens taking over the planet. The ideas in this aren’t particularly original, its the execution of them which looks interesting. Just get over your affiliation with a…

Have you seen the Prestige?

Like some sort of wax plug? I am not confident but will investigate your approach.

The beginning of it was painfully bad. I know they were trying to introduce this whole new world with a “show, don’t tell” kind of thing. but it doesn’t count as showing if what you’re showing is stenciled graffiti which essentially just tells for you. And then people start talking and it just gets worse. When *the…

I’m almost positive the second book at least (which takes place mostly on this side of the barrier) explicitly says its Florida.

What comes around goes around. I’ll tell you why.

Its not horrible. It starts off as a perfectly functional low-rent spooky space show. But the wheels start coming off about halfway through with some wildly inconsistent tone and by the time you get the “big reveal” at the end it just kind of falls apart. Is this going to be the thing with the “Cloverfield” brand?…

I somehow managed to make it until this week without watching The Conjuring but now that its on Netflix I have done so and I recommend it. You’ve probably seen clips already from “best horror scenes ever” compilations and such, but even with that partial foreknowledge and extra hype its still a good generic scary…

A-ha is obviously a One Hit Wonder since the only song anyone ever thinks of for them is Take On Me, despite the fact that they actually were a Bond band and did The Living Daylights as well. But the best of their songs, IMHO is one I never actually heard on the radio but found years later: The Sun Always Shines on…

I like how Fountains of Wayne went from a One Hit Wonder for Radiation Vibe to a One Hit Wonder for Stacy’s Mom. That’s clearly two hits, though obviously of substantially different scales.

Yeah. Reading NIMH years after watching the movie I was struck by the lack of magic. But rather than being disappointed it mostly strengthened the story, in part because Nicodemus was still pretty awesome, even though his awesomeness was achieved through the power of Leadership instead of magic talismans.