Well, if you can’t get someone to give you a Peace Prize, make your own!

Drowning Pool is interesting (just turned 50 in July!). It misses Goldman’s touch and is perhaps more convoluted than it needs to be, but it has an astonishing final sequence. I maintain it’s a companion piece, oddly, with Fletch Lives, as together they help establish a set of Cajun Cinema Clichés.

“Lara clicks through, completing the task again and again, growing increasingly frustrated. Finally, she calls for technical support, and a voice on the line asks her to consider an unimaginable possibility: maybe she is actually a bot.”

Won the short film Oscar this year, and I really enjoyed it.

Someone could refute this, but I don’t think that Elliott Gould’s portrayal of Marlowe in Altman’s The Long Goodbye has anything much to do with the character as he appears on the page, but the radical departure is the absolute key charm of that film.

I assumed this was going to be a Stan’s Soapbox-pastiche cavalcade of nonsense until I got to It’s The Nineties, and then my heart skipped at the chance to find out what was going on with poor aphasic, time-traveling Jack.

To then be told you DID just make all of them up. I… don’t know how to feel.

After so much love for “Your Name” the other week, I’d love to see an equivalent amount for the (in my opinion) superior “Weathering With You”. As a strict non-crier, the emotional climax of this movie absolutely had me welling up — quite the statement about the power of animation and voice acting.

I’m sorry now I didn’t tag you when I participated in Record Store Day loot pride posting in 2023! I did the whole stand-in-line thing just to get it, AND it turned out a friend of mine did the same to get one for me because she knew I was a fan of both Aimee and the podcast.

As a Silver Age fan, you may already be familiar with Streaky’s origin story, but I found this scan of the eight-page short from Action Comics #261 on Comic Books and Cats, and it’s a wild ride that the Palmiotti/Conner segment is clearly homaging.

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Tell her that Babu Frick is included in this year’s Star Wars Lego advent calendar! What greater indication of respect is there than that?

Someone forgot the prominent suprasternal notch fetishism inspired by The English Patient. Lots of thimbles sold as necklaces to highlight swoop-necked bone structure.

I watched Sea of Love recently, and it was the first time I’d ever seen a “cop becomes romantically obsessed with his suspect” movie where I believed the set-up. Pacino really sells the compulsive attraction to Barkin — and the guilt. It’s a performance standard that other genre films fail to meet.

Remember, of course, that Wells was a proponent of what was called the Parliamentary road to Socialism, and believed through elections and legislation, Socialsm could be slowly rolled out for all citizens. So despite Heinlein’s narrow, fear-mongering perspective, he’s not far off in his assessment.