I honestly don’t - and never did - consider Def Leppard to be a metal band. And I liked Hysteria. This probably opens me up to a lot of derision - deservedly so - but Pyromania and Hysteria were my two favorite albums when I wanted to get “crazy” (I grew up in a very religious household, so please understand that as…

You say Def Leppard sucks and immediately put up a frickin’ Billy Idol video.

Of course it does. There are assholes everywhere, on all sides of the political spectrum. I just don’t think Brie Larson is one of them because she thought it’d be cool to have a more diverse press corps. For all of the hubbub, I didn’t hear one bit of news about her actually turning down interviews from white males.

I’m not sure why you think the arc of someone’s life might not be believable. I’m in Johnny/Daniel’s age group (my age roughly corresponds to theirs in the movie and now), so over the past 35 (!) years I’ve seen a lot. My life has changed a lot over that time. So have the lives of my friends. And maybe it’s just me,…

While I do acknowledge that there is, in fact, a segment of society that we could call “The Regressive Left,” it is a group that includes idiots like anti-vaxxers, not people who want to balance the scales in journalistic opportunity. 

No mention of Damnation Alley?

Kick-Ass is only marginally good, and that’s because there are maybe three scenes that are so well-done and impactful that they lift the rest of the movie out of the deeply shitty pit it exists in by default: Kick-Ass’ first street fight and Henry Jackman’s incredible score punctuating the money line; Hit Girl…

I will always love Captain America: Civil War for how, in the space of about 10 minutes of screen time, Marvel and Sony completely reclaimed Spider-Man and redeemed him from the studio prison in which he had been left by the previous two (!) franchises.

He’s also the best part of the movie Rush, where he plays Niki Lauda to Chris Hemsworth’s James Hunt.

That, sadly, is the fate of all popular culture - eventually to peter out and be lambasted by culture snobs as time marches merrily on. Someday, even holy grails like In The Aeroplane Over the Sea is going to be appraised by future wonks as “forgettable, pretentious, and self-important.” It’s the circle of…

The Last Starfighter has one of the great themes in cinema history. Sadly, once it’s done playing, the movie starts.

Yeah. I mean, look at what sexual repression has done for all of those conservative culture warriors who crusade against LBGTQ+ and women’s rights in the name of purity who end up getting busted for soliciting gay prostitutes and sexual assault and so forth. I don’t think Sir Ian is saying that repression is fully to…

It’s like The Florida Project’s ancestor, that script. I’d totally watch it.

A color picture?

Like Fonzie ski-jumping over a shark has become synonymous with entertainment that has overstayed its welcome but won’t admit it, Space Jam has become the poster child for terrible, irredeemable entertainment properties that exist (and even thrive) almost completely on generational nostalgia.

I think the takeaway I want to leave with people is that evangelical fanbases of virtually any candidate, regardless of political bent, are veering towards the worst obnoxiousness. Berners, AOC evangelists, Trumpists, Clintonistas, the lot. Politics is turning into trench warfare and I feel like most of us are stuck…

I’m not “stanning” for AOC. Far from it. I like her style, I like her public approach to the Old White Guy establishment, and I think she shows promise. But until I see more than a great branding strategy, I’m reserving judgment.

Shoulda known that a sixth-grade level word would be too intimidating for you.

Don’t respond to a comment unless you can fully understand it. I wasn’t comparing Sanders and Trump at all - I was comparing their evangelical bases and their vituperative natures, which you are highlighting better than I ever could have. Hence my use of “strawman,” because you are willfully misrepresenting my…

The vulgarity doesn’t bother me. The strawman does. And that, indeed, is my point - principles such as free healthcare and subsidized education are fantastic ideas that deserve better advocates than people who get their rocks off by willfully misrepresenting the truth and attacking anyone who isn’t in lockstep.