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Watch With Boyo III via No Good Boyo August 18th, 2008 at 11:37

We've been away for a few days, so without any further ado I return to the important business of listing films in no particular order.Ninth Night: Quatermass and the PitI'd rather have the 1950s TV series, but that would be cheating. It was the best thing the BBC did before giving me a job.The 1960s Hammer film doesn't have the relentless build-up of the original, but also skips its occasional preachiness. The ending, with Quatermass and his female assistant unable to speak across the space between them in the ruins of London, is one of the most powerful in postwar British cinema, genre movie or no genre movie.It's all up on YouTube, but here's the section that includes the cleansing of the Martian hives (at '1"30):Key quotation: Minister: "Do you know what you're implying? That we owe...