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Babes in peril and perilous babes:

Burn, Witch, Burn
The Innocents
Rosemary’s Baby
Damien: Omen II. The Omen Omen III: The Final Conflict
The Haunting
I Walked with a Zombie

Classically creepy:

The Spiral Staircase
Curse of the Demon
Peeping Tom
Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Subtly sinister:

Don’t Look Now
Immortality
Cat People

Subtitled terror:

A Tale of Two Sisters
The Devil’s Backbone
Open Your Eyes
Les Diaboliques

Campy and satirical scares:

Shaun of the […]

Everyone from the BBC to Gawker to Game Spot to The Onion has been talking about Grand Theft Auto IV. So far the game has garnered rave reviews. I guess that means I’m not the only person who enjoys shooting people in the head and driving recklessly. In a purely virtual sense, […]

Today’s intermède amusant comes to us via Facebook, via the lovable Kate.

I knew if I procrastinated long enough someone would invent a robot to do my housework.

Someone on the Saturday Night Live writing staff spent the entire writer’s strike watching Oscar nominees and the Food Network.

My sister sent me an email. The subject line read “Please to enjoy.” The email contained a link to this:

I suggest watching the full three minutes and twenty-nine seconds.

For me, the Christmas season officially begins after I have watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. This year I watched it with the nieces three on Thanksgiving, after dinner but before pie. The nieces had not seen the television special* before and thus watched it in almost total silence. My sister and I […]

Well, I’ve been checking Ione Skye’s filmography and the full cast list for the film Zodiac on IMDb every day, and today the proper credits appeared.
Viva la révolution!

Conspiracy theories are always popular, and over the years I’ve developed a few of my own. My latest involves IMDb and their inexplicable neglect of Ione Skye.
Last week, I went to see Zodiac, an intriguing film chock full of familiar faces. It not only features Jake Gyllenhaal and Mark Ruffalo, but also Anthony […]

Every now and then I receive a MySpace bulletin that contains information (rather than a painfully long and pointless survey or a drunken ramble). Today, for example, People in Planes posted a bulletin announcing that their song “Falling By The Wayside” will appear in an A&E promo spot for The Sopranos. Because nothing […]