Harenchi Gakuen Movie titles (1970)

Pro-Wres no Hoshi Aztecaser titles (1976)

Harenchi Gakuen TV titles (1971)

OK this is better than Alex Cox’s TV dub of Repo Man, which up to now was my favourite sanitised dialogue.

via Twitch

John Hamm is Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis

Rick Katschke conducts backstage interviews on his Host and Guest podcast

PCL LinkDump asks if you Are Ready To Fight?

The horrifying origin of Jstache – if this had been a Channel 101 show it’d be understandable, but this…

More Scrappy Doo reminiscences from Mark Evanier.

Who’s behind Norman Osborn’s door? The Estate of Tim O’Neil knows.

John K breaks down appeal in cartoons. And then does it some more. And some more!

Scientists invent machine for drawing pictures of Giant Marshmallows.

James Mishler maps the genealogy of Dungeons & Dragons.

Square Root of Minus Garfield – further exploration in the field of newspaper funnies deconstruction.

Awesome Lucha Libre photography from Victor Ayala

Bob Newhart opens a dvd (via MaximumFun).

A timely description of nijigen complex.

Michael Bay meets with Wonderglen.

Twitch has a teaser for Studio 4°C’s WW2 film First Squad.

Makoto Raiku settles with Shogakukan.

Newsarama has Watchmen character posters.

DRGBLZ (via Warren Ellis)

Leeds International Film Festival has Detroit Metal City and the first installment in the 20th Century Boys trilogy playing this year on the 15th & 16th November.

22nd Leeds International Film Festival

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When they showed the Rock N’ Rolla trailer in front of Dark Knight, you could hear laughs of derision flitter through the audience, like a sarcastic butterfly. And this was quite a small, first showing of the day audience.

Saw The Dark Knight yesterday.

* Too long by at least one set piece. The sheer number of them adds to the drag I experienced around the halfway/two-thirds mark. Maybe it could have lost the Mister Reyes(Reece?) subplot and the ensuing set piece. However, my third problem might be more of the cause of its moments of drag than the number of set pieces.
* BATVOICE.
* Doesn’t trust the audience to suspend their disbelief, and so eats up it’s running time rationalising stuff, particularly in the Bat-Bond sequences.
* BATVOICE.
* Action direction still seems to be ashamed of the BATCOSTUME, possibly with good reason. It certainly looked like it didn’t fit properly in the interrogation scene.
* BATVOICE. If anything, it was worse than Batman Begins. And it sounded different from the trailer. Did they watch the trailer and think, the BATVOICE doesn’t sound dreadful enough, let’s go and add some more dreadfulness in post production?

Despite all that, it’s a good film. In fact when it’s at its best, it makes those points seem worse than they would in a lesser film.