Laserdisc Rot

I got twin toddlers that recently have had a desire to watch the movies and show from the Cars  franchise on repeat. Watching those movies over and over and over and over gets you asking questions about this odd alternate history just to stay sane. There's a World War II jeep living in Radiation Springs... was there a World War II in this world? Mater has a throw away line of "I bet this is smoother than the roads on the moon"... did the world make it to the moon? Are there actual roads on the moon? The forklifts only ever appear while labor is being done... are they an underclass? Would a Russian Revolution in this world be organized by this underclass? Was Lenin a forklift? But one that really ate at me once I started thinking about it revolved around the character Sheriff. The character is a 1949 Mercury Eight police car and his entire personality is basically "I'm a rural lawman." So, the question is... was Sheriff destined to be a cop and have the perso

An unofficial tradition of the Laserdisc Party community is to list our top new-to-us films that we viewed during a particular month. I tend to ramble on those posts and figured if I'm gonna ramble, I might as well do it on that dang new fangled blog I just started, right? Anyway, that's enough of a preamble - let's check out some cool movies! 5. Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) Director: Carl Frankin Wow. Wow wow wow. This is some amazing noir right smack dab in 1948 Los Angeles. It leans hard  into the setting in a way that places the racism of the era into focus. In most noir, the protagonist is beget at all sides by dangers and it's even more palpable in this flick, following right in the footsteps of Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night  and doing it so dang well. I had a blast with this film and am more than a little upset there isn't a whole damn franchise built around Easy Rawlins and Mouse taking down rich white folk trying to get richer. Fortunately t