yeah, the last vhs I bought was probably a letterboxed one from Suncoast. Then a buddy of mine started taping letterboxed laserdiscs for me, and then that newfangled DVD contraption...

(Nothing against zoomers or this question! It just explains the number of Gen-Xers and millennials who are like "Urr? We had the whole Disney black diamond collection," etc.

I feel like this question is more for zoomers some of whom might not have been born yet when the last commercial vhs went out in 2006. That was 20 years ago and these folks are discovering old videotapes in thrift shops as exciting old analog formats.

Same, except the Phantom Menace part. The question Mike was replying to was "Name a movie you've seen on VHS," which seems directed at people younger than us olds who were surrounded by VHS.

Except the Phantom Menace part.

yeah. As someone pointed out, they're gonna have to recast Book anyway.

I'll be good with either an OBAA Best Picture win or Sinners, but Sinners has the edge if only because Jeff Wells will be inconsolable if it wins.

...greeted questions about her early genre work with something of a sneer. Especially when a lot of the interviewers were probably like "hey, remember that trash you used to do?" Shit, she's probably been kinder to the franchise than JC himself.

I guess. But she's also the rare "scream queen" from that era who crossed over (initially thanks to John Landis, bleh). So when she was doing press for something she hoped would extend her range, especially when she was younger and had more to prove, it's not surprising that she might've ...

Fillion is famously mum about his politics/personal stuff in general so his friendliness to Whedon and Baldwin might be a case of "hey, they've always been nice to me." Still, definitely worth a side-eye.

I dunno, she seems more like "I got Blum to support this other thing I wanted to do" than "Halloween sucks." If she's retrospectively implying it shouldn't have been a trilogy...she's right.

That or pooh-poohing Jason Blum for being a cheap bastard who didn't make it clear she was in for a trilogy.

and once again, no love for "Slappy and the Stinkers"

Good luck with it!

Is it an issue of "Hulu does it or nobody does it," or can they take it to another streamer?

Because his name isn't Cuba Gooding III?

I don't know that I actually owned this issue, but I know I saw it in a crapload of house ads. There might be a whole generation familiar with this cover solely from advertisements.

Drew Friedman, the Georgia O'Keeffe of Shemps. (I picture him hearing that and going "I'll take it.")

"Unless of course you'd like to try the ... cruel shoes."

Ferrara was funny, but he was also another example of the film's weird anachronistic vibe. Ferrara himself might talk like that in 2026, but his character, a mob guy of advanced age, would not have been talking like a late-50s hipster, saying "man" all the time, in the early 50s.

Temu Taika Waititi

That poster though. Fran Drescher and Abel Ferrara, together at last.

Even if you never saw this guy, if you grew up in the '70s and '80s you knew him -- the amiable fella delivering the day's news and rocking the '70s do that people would mock later, but it was the style then. Every local station had a guy like this, on general news or sports or weather.

I stared at the photo for a while trying to remember who she reminds me of. Then it hit me: Lorde.

High Fidelity, the one I'm watching now

Emperor Weinstein, from the looks of the photo

Rewatch or jamesfrancofirsttime.gif?

Has "House ad in DAREDEVIL #115 is Wolverine's true first appearance" energy.

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