I am playing with my ludicrous little NES Classic Edition and having a riot. It's a fun little trinket, and it's loaded with a bunch of games I didn't have when I was a kid. My only disappointment is its distinct lack of A) more Mega Man games and B) that wicked impossible Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game

Adam Driver IS Nice Henry Chinaski?

And, just like that, I realized that I've been giving Lena Dunham the exact right amount of credit for being self-aware.

Neat. She was always fun to watch

Mickie James is coming back? I thought she got axed for going Method on her lunatic routine

Well, that may be where my personal opinion and understanding of her clouds her work. Everything she's done has had a somewhat confessional element to it, and that mix of ego and lack of examination cropped up in the interviews and pieces I read about her in the run up to "Girls." It's very possible that I'm not…

I appreciate the difference between a character and its author, and I'm familiar with the concept that an author can create a wholly repellent character that says and does awful things while not representing the author themselves. For instance, I don't think Jim Thompson was a remorseless psychopath, even though…

See, while others may elect to get snarky about this, I take solace in this. You can be fairly talented *and* completely lack in basic self-awareness but still find prolonged success in this world as the self-appointed "voice of a generation."

And Chev Chelios, tiring of a life of nihilistic violence is on the edge of increasing his level of emotional intimacy by coming clean about his profession and quitting the life finds himself betrayed by his long time employers after a job that they promise will be his last. Not only do they betray his trust, but they…

Thank you! Constantine was an atmospheric, effective little movie (a bit draggy 'round the middle, and a bit hazy about how getting stabbed with a lightbulb sends you to Hell) but effective. Had it been about a character named anything other than John Constantine, I think it would've been better received

Chairman Mao Presents The People's Choice Awards/Public Executions

….Ohdeargod.

Actress Paid Fairly After Only 5 Years of Sharp Creative Decline

Brotherhood?

At the risk of coming off as reductive? No.

Or, "I'M TALLER": The Motion Picture

No, I agree with all of that. John Wick is a supremely well-made, wicked clever movie.

THANK YOU GOD. This looks equal parts amazing and profoundly stupid, which is right where I like my John Wick movies.

No, no, the twist is that it's actually all about a TV with cancer that emotionally abuses its family with cancer-related shenanigans, but then it hits on a tiger wearing a letterman jacket, fucks it, and gets murdered in elevator like Rosalind Shays by a jealous roommate.

"…Why did they call it Joy?"