You're laughing now but wait until you see Fu Manchu, Ed.D. enact his plot to change the kindergarten curriculum to an all-world-domination agenda and destroy us from within!

To take an intentionally silly comment far too seriously . . . I read a great article about ten years back where the author made the point that the "Dr." part of "Dr. Fu Manchu" is actually really important to understanding him as a racist fantasy. Part of what he represents is a paranoia that the "other" could be…

Died two years ago and still has movies waiting to be released from beyond the grave (I feel Dracula would approve, even if Sir Christopher came to hate the role).

Mask of Fu Manchu does have that glorious pre-Code batshit craziness about it. It doesn't even hide how sexually aroused its main female character is by bondage. And most of the cast seem to be aware of exactly how ridiculous its incredibly racist plot is.

Lost Continent, which is a great MST3K episode mostly because the film is just mind-boggling in its tediousness and lack of plot.

I disagree with just about everything you said but I do love Hans Zimmer's score for Man of Steel. The earnest, homespun stuff for the Clark scenes finally merging into the soaring, charging music for when he accepts his role as Superman. (And though BvS is a far worse score I did dig the weird, pounding theme for…

Points for sticking with the "created by the gods" thing. I was a little afraid we were going to get some ridiculous technobabble explanation for the Amazons.

Now that they've got free shipping maybe somebody in town can order a book called Don't Leave Your Beloved Only Child to a Man with Crippling Rage and Depression Issues When You Know You Have a Potentially Fatal Disease. Or maybe just Custody for Dummies, something like that. (SPOILERS: Seriously, I admired the…

Please ramp up the camp and hysteria the way this trailer promises, House of Cards, because you belong much closer to the Scandal than the West Wing end of the political drama spectrum and you don't seem to realize that. Throw people in front of trains and murder them in parking garages, don't focus on Doug's…

Saunders gave a nice performance and I actually liked the few scenes she had with Bart but it got surprisingly little screen time. Putting the little lock on the core door made me laugh. Otherwise, it was a pretty mediocre episode. The parody version of the theme song didn't work at all.

My only complaint is that the villain was kind of a boring stock horrible aristocrat but I do get how that works with the episode's take on privilege and race. Bill is quickly becoming my favorite companion since Donna. I love how openly curious she is about the Doctor and where they travel.

The Good Neighbor actually starts out as kind of interesting but just completely falls apart once you learn why James Caan's character is reacting to everything the way he is and why he got targeted in the first place, which just makes everything seem pointlessly cruel.

I think he's done some genuinely good work - American Crime Story, Feud, parts of American Horror Story (though I still think Freak Show and Hotel were train wrecks rescued by a few good performances). He seems to have a lot of trouble sustaining an idea or coming up with a coherent narrative structure. I wonder if…

Speaker for the Dead is a touching, captivating book about trying to understand individuals far different from yourself written by a hate-filled crazy person. Life is strange.

This is a movie my dad and I used to quote to each other. I have no idea why, other than it used to be on cable a lot and so we saw certain scenes over and over (which is the best way to see it - there's a handful of pretty funny scenes and a lot of filler). "That's a goddamn lamp!" "But it's loaded."

I have actually come to hate what Nicolas Cage has become as an actor - overblown, weird for the sake of weird, incapable of showing real human emotion. I have been actively avoiding him for the last decade. But I loved the David Gordon Green movie Joe and I loved him in it.

I think Cheyenne is a good example of a character who could easily be a one dimensional ditz on another show but gets to show different sides here - sweet, sometimes surprisingly insightful or funny, genuinely wants to be a good parent.

I once let my film class do that and we wound up with Fight Club - which I was grateful for, all things considered. I can't imagine trying to say something constructive about Boondock Saints (or Tokyo Drift, which actually came in second in the class vote).

That wedding toast from Amy was truly painful. Like, she gets how bad it's sounding while she's talking but she just can't stop herself. I actually felt bad for Adam in that moment. Laughed pretty hard at Jeff using his soothing baby voice while telling him off, then flipping him off once he handed over the baby.

My college briefly got a new administrator who was convinced that she had to tell us over and over how important education is like it had never occurred to a roomful of people with graduate degrees. There were buttons and chanting and tshirts and picnics before she gave up and went to work for a prison.