Mountains of the Moon is "a lovely film"? Maybe you've forgotten the "bug in ear" and "spear through the face" scenes, but I still remember them vividly, even though I saw it 20 years ago.

Sicario was great until it shifted gears into cheesy revenge flick. Liked Blunt a lot.

You'll get some pushback from AV Clubbers on The Hudsucker Proxy, but I'm on your side, it's fantastic.

the public toilets there are probably the worst I've ever been obliged to visit.

Upvoted for Dagger and The Coin. You're absolutely right that the races need more explanation. The author's doing that contemporary lit thing of writing from a character's viewpoint so you don't read anything they wouldn't think, but *somebody's* got to explain what a Yemmu is.

I'm interested in your experiment: I've always thought that the Marie Kondo method was insane, because there's a lot of things that don't spark joy but do spark extreme unpleasantness when you don't have them. Anyway, let us know how it works out after you've gone a week or so without underwear.

I grew up in Hawaii and had to put up with strange smells coming from the back of the school bus on a daily basis, so the idea of having only eight legal places to buy marijuana in Hawaii just totally hilarious.

Thanks to the diverse cast, it was also saying to kids, "You can be a kickass astronaut or engineer too, even if you're not a stodgy white male!"

DVDs from the local pawn shop

See, now this I can get behind. It reminded me of this lady, who brings obliviously privileged twee hipster retro to a whole new level, but self-awareness of your privilege makes all the difference.

Isn't that true of all documentary fans?

The pop culture reboot cycle is 20-25 years. If I owned the property I'd wait until 2020 and reboot it on the CW with a new teenage cast.

Never underestimate how obsessive people will get on the Internet. There's also a gun database (http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/M… ) which you're probably less interested in.

Ignatiy's forgetting the first rule of satire: it's all in good fun until the satirist goes after your own sacred cow. But that's your problem, not the satirist's.

Everybody does a Shatner impression these days, but it looks like they're all just copying Alaskey's.

I may be the only one who sees what you did there, but thumbs up.

Every time I see a pretentious salad on a restaurant menu, I think:
"I'd like a, um, salad. Um, baby field greens?"
"WHAT did you just call me?"

I believe it was meant as an insult.

If the Coen brothers are cryptoconservative, what's the deal with John Goodman's character in Lebowski? If the Coen brothers revere the folksy stranger, what's the deal with John Goodman's character in Barton Fink?

I'd love to have seen Patton Oswalt's reaction when The Bear went on stage to receive her statuette.