That's more like it, Mr Broom.

They altered the West Side Story visuals, didn't they? Wasn't that against the rules? As far as I'm concerned, Titanic is a horror story, so that's no stretch.

In honor of the upcoming Wallis & Gromit movie, I picked up CREATURE COMFORTS SEASON 1, which came out (or came out again) last Tuesday.

It says 13 episodes plus the original short (plus making of stuff). I don't know where these got broadcast, but I'm thoroughly chuffed about this. Is there a good web site to decode DVD easter eggs out there? It wouldn't surprise me if the hid the CC ad campaign somewhere instead of having them as an official item on the disc.

Easter egg sites.

Y'know, you'd think at this point I'd just learn to Google things before I ask, but nooooooo.

Although I also was hoping someone had a particularly good one that they knew of, I guess.

I generally go to dvdeastereggs.com.

When there were two, I could have told you which one was better.

Now, I don't even bother to remember. I check until I find the eggs for the movie in question, or until I've hit four sites. Whichever comes first.

I prefer E-eggs. www.eeggs.com

Now, I don't even bother to remember. I check until I find the eggs for the movie in question, or until I've hit four sites. Whichever comes first.

Huh, I like that as an SOP.

Anyway, thanks for the recs, all.

Another Wire article for Erika. I had to use Bugmenot to bypass the registration.

Movies this past weekend:

• Serenity on Friday. I liked it more than any episode in the series. The stakes seemed higher, the characterizations more true, and the story seemed more taut and well-thought.

• Badlands on Saturday. I'd seen this years ago and all I remembered were long shots of flat lands. There's a bit more to it than that. Like the terrible Natural Born Killers, it's a movie about how boredom, pop culture, and general teenage sociopathy can add up to an outlandish self-image and indifference to others. Unlike Natural Born Killers, Badlands is quiet, reflective, beautiful, and subtle. Frankly, seeing as how Badlands is 20 years older than NBK, I don't know why Stone made his atrocity or how he sleeps with himself.

• Downfall on Sunday. Like Badlands, this is another deadpan look at people behaving monstrously, although unlike Badlands, where the killers most act reactively, the characters in Downfall (which is about the last days in Hitler's bunker during the Russian seige of Berlin) deserves their fate and worse. Based on the recollections of Traudl Junge, Hitler's personal secretary (and subject of the documentary Blind Spot, which demonstrated the banality of evil in its tediousness), it's a fairly interesting movie several steps above the HBO-Showtime dramatizations of important 20th century events. As the grandson of a White Citizen's Council member, I found the depiction of Hitler as a man who vacillated between personal kindness and sudden burst of hate-filled, vindictive insanity to be incredible to watch. I had a bit of a problem with the dignified depictions of Albert Speer and Professor Schenk, but perhaps part of the point is that many of the people responsible for the Third Reich were not stark-raving insanos, but people who have some admirable qualities but have tied their fate to political evil (*ahem* Colin Powell *ahem*). I remember my Holocaust Studies professor had some kind words for Speer (although I don't remember why), and I know that he escaped the death penalty at Nuremburg. Anyway, definitely an interesting (although somewhat south of great) movie.