I think that if Warner and DC hadn’t been so committed to the Murderverse, Ben Affleck might have been able to do more with the role. He wasn’t an awful choice, he was just sandbagged by one terrible film and two mediocre ones.

Agreed. DKR back in 1986 was one of the best books I’d ever read up to that point, and is significant however you look at it, as it was a seminal work of its era. DKSA holds the title of being among the worst I’ve ever read. There is seriously nothing redeeming about that book.

Ah, but things were different then, though we were poor.

Suicide Squad 2:  Electric Boogaloo

Back when it was still a good site, Cracked did an After Hours that theorized that all of Joss Whedon’s works are in the same universe. It’s worth checking out. (At least most of the folks who got laid off and/or saw the writing on the wall and left early are working...Dan is writing for John Oliver, Soren is with Amer…

I agree.  The film spent so much running time building tension, creating suspense and mystery, and then the payoff was incredibly ‘meh’, if you can even call it a payoff.  I don’t need clear answers to everything, but I need a lot more than what we got.

And that’s the problem, isn’t it? I suspect that many people, including yours truly, will be faced with decisions to drop one or more streamers sometime in the next year or 18 months, if only to add another. Right now I have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and DC. As things stand, DC would be the first to go. But if they beef…

I’m completely OK with a hot dog being a taco, as long as it means that poutine is a salad. 

It’s completely worth it.  If you have a general knowledge of the hits, that’s all you really need.  And it truly is a brilliant show.

He even put out a pretty terrific album in 2017, Paranormal.  It’s a double with 2 songs recorded with the original Alice Cooper band.  (And it’s awesome!)

A Paranormal Evening With Alice Cooper. I was expecting a ton of theatrics, which I got (Alice in a straitjacket! Alice getting his head chopped off! Alice the sinister ringmaster!). What I wasn’t (quite) expecting but was obviously hoping for was a band that played a tightly scripted show with primal urgency,…

Just a little nitpick. Ms. Siegal did not appear in Flanagan’s debut (non-student) feature, Absentia. However, one of the leads of that film, Katherine Parker, played Poppy in Hill House, and has a role in Doctor Sleep, as well.

It wasn’t the rest of the band that sued Fogerty.  It was Saul Zaentz, the head of Fantasy Records, who owned the rights to Creedence’s songs because back in the day, musicians were unaware of how important owning their own publishing was.  Fogerty did win the suit, but was forced to change his song ‘Zanz Can’t Dance’…

The original In-Laws came out in 1979.  Over 20 years before the remake.  12 is a dozen.  20 is, well, twenty.  Just sayin’.

Actually, he does have the authority to move troops to the border. As the Commander in Chief, he’s allowed to use the military to shore up a federal agency, in this case the border patrol. It’s a complete and utter abuse of power, but as long as he doesn’t use said military to supercede local law enforcement or insist…

I used to have the same issues with Arbys, as good as the food tasted, about an hour later I’d be in trouble...somehow, my system adjusted, and now it’s my infrequent excursions to Popeyes that sends my digestive system reeling.  It would be an interesting study, I think--the effects of fast food on different…

I stopped watching regularly several years ago, but I’d still tune in for things like Treehouse of Horror and episodes that caught my eye.  This is the first year that I’ve been unable to get through a single episode, including Treehouse.  I wish they’d just let it die, so we aren’t constantly reminded of its slide…

He’s not entirely wrong about Tarantino.  I’d argue that his first three films really did cook up something new and original with old ingredients, but that, with Kill Bill, he moved into pastiche and has never moved out.  

This is how bad it’s become, and how bad my reactions have become--when I first saw the headline this morning on Yahoo, I didn’t click through to the story...I just felt a depressed resignation that nothing will change.

Now, every time I read the words “Hey, Bobby Terry, you f----d up!”, it’s going to be in Reed’s voice.