Congratulations on buying $8000 worth of fireworks, guy who lives one block from me, but do you think maybe you want to save a few of them for the actual Fourth Of July, instead of …

From a reader:
Hi Sars,
Have you watched the Roman Polanski doc on HBO yet? With your interest in true crime, I wondered if this one appealed to you.
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As much as they tried to make him very …

Dennis Cozzalio has an excellent piece up at GreenCine, a comprehensive primer of drive-in-movie film and culture.The essay includes movies that feature drive-ins, movies that would have played at drive-ins, the design aesthetics, and a …

“…but I am getting pretty sick and tired of these fucking church people.”
My boyfriend uses that Carlin quip in response to anything and everything — he can’t find his keys, he’s lost his train of …

This is seriously hampering my productivity at work.
The Cartoon Network used to show anime movies on Saturday morning (not sure if they still do this, since I don’t watch cartoons on Saturday mornings anymore), …

I’m pretty up on the Warhol Factories, but mostly the later iterations in the ’70s; I hadn’t heard of Danny Williams, so I looked forward to seeing A Walk Into The Sea.
But like many Warhol-related …

Hi Sars,
I have a friend, who I’ll call R., and R. has a friend who I’ll call Fuckface. R. is a pretty good guy, but Fuckface is quite racist.
I’ve often told R. that I can’t …

That’s damn right, California.

(Had to.Sorry.)
To the headlines: Randolph got pink-slipped, finally, and Chien-Ming Wang broke the crap out of his foot.
I feel kind of bad for Randolph, because, although we can’t know what went on behind closed doors, …

Can’t imagine to what that quote could possibly refer?Head over to The House Next Door, where Joe R and I live-blogged Staying Alive for their joint “Summer Of ’83” feature with Movie Geeks United.
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