Now Playing: OVERLORDS OF THE UFO (1976), starring a guy who looks like Bruno Puntz Jones who has a lot of charts and maps in his rec room. For science!

Nobody loves Peter Boyle more than me. But I still will always wonder what it might have been like if he’d played Clyde Bruckman.

Kindness is my superpower.

Now Playing: HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. Half an hour in, they finally decide to include some acknowledgment that the best actor in the cast fell out of the sky last week so she might not be on the show much anymore.

This movie was apparently a means to getting WB to give the producers a payout in exchange for agreeing not to release it before THE SWARM came out. Warners should have canceled production on THE SWARM, bought this, and inserted a few close-ups of Richard Widmark saying “Good lord!”

Now Playing: THE BEES (1978), as in “killer”, with John Carradine. The rheumatoid arthritis that Big John endured in his later years is much in evidence. The poor guy’s hands look like bad A.I. Like they told the computer that a hand consists of five fingers but didn’t tell it what fingers are.

You seen this Target commercial where a weirdly overexcited Kristen Wiig says “circle” and everyone she talks to acts as if they can’t understand what she’s saying, even though you totally can? There are postmodernist French novels that aren’t as far over my head as that thing.

Now Playing: THE BEAR. Why is the camera half an inch from Jamie Lee Curtis’s face whenever she has a line? What’s it gonna look like if she sneezes?

It’s worth checking out. And they do have free trial periods.

The whole series has moved to the international-TV streaming channel MHz Choice