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Okay, Gautham, lay it on me:

Oh, I'll lay you alright.

[|The Warriors], dir. [|Walter Hill], based on [|Xenophon's Anabasis]

The Walter Hill thriller I saw: [|Southern Comfort], also kind of Anabasis-y, but could serve as a pretty good Vietnam allegory.

A great, wide-ranging interview with Walter Hill [|here]

Is Thomas the Tank Engine [|antisemitic] or [|proimperialist]?

Here is something I have been kind of been investigating - where do the roots of the home invasion thriller lie? Like [|Panic Room], [|52 Pick-Up], [|Cape Fear (1962)] and [|Cape Fear (1991)]. The earliest ones I found are three Bogart films: [|The Petrified Forest], his first big hit, [|Key Largo], and [|The Desperate Hours], one of his last movies.

The article on [|quicksand] in American culture, in which an extensive (possibly the most extensive!) description of the quicksand f3tish scene and the phrase "deep mud enthusiast" are not even the most interesting things in the article.

Christina Hendricks "overshadows" Sarah Jessica Parker - with her [|GIANT BOSOM]

[|The first Maltese Falcon] and the little details that were cleaned up for Bogart's 1941 remake. 30s film was a more interesting place.

Holy shit, check out for the 1937 movie [|The Black Legion]!!

I brought up [|Network] because it's hilariously prescient, given Glenn Beck's whole career. If you haven't see it you MUST you MUST. It's written by Paddy Chayevsky, who is one of my favorite screenwriters, and ends with one of the best villainous speeches I have ever seen in my entire film going life. The whole movie is this fantastic combination of realistic and way over the top, hilarious and deadly serious. It's kind of the Bamboozled of another era. My point is that there is this anchor that goes nuts and becomes this apocalyptic Glenn Beck type of character, ranting about the way the world is now - but he's clearly nuts and being used cynically by the network to get ratings.