The industry was still working out the kinks of how to make fully sanitized, utterly inoffensive all-ages genre entertainment. Thank God they figured it out!

The industry was still working out the kinks of how to make fully sanitized, utterly inoffensive all-ages genre entertainment. Thank God they figured it out!

Her death is all the more wicked and impactful for the fact that we see her vulnerable and alone and cat-loving and pathetic in her final moments. The movie could've easily killed her off in her lipsticked-and-bewigged Kingston Falls harridan mode, but they went the more disturbing route of humanizing her slightly…

Her death is all the more wicked and impactful for the fact that we see her vulnerable and alone and cat-loving and pathetic in her final moments. The movie could've easily killed her off in her lipsticked-and-bewigged Kingston Falls harridan mode, but they went the more disturbing route of humanizing her slightly…

You've made me feel less alone for sharing that. For years I was haunted by the Futtermans' deaths. Then five years later I (perversely?) felt betrayed by the apparent retconning in Gremlins 2.

You've made me feel less alone for sharing that. For years I was haunted by the Futtermans' deaths. Then five years later I (perversely?) felt betrayed by the apparent retconning in Gremlins 2.

Don't you get that trying to discern the true motive of a Gremlin is a fool's errand?!

Don't you get that trying to discern the true motive of a Gremlin is a fool's errand?!

The "mean-spirited" charge probably comes from the fact that the death-as-justice in the film isn't as perfectly, "morally" calibrated as the deaths are in virtually every movie Spielberg made after "Jaws." (Remember Alex Kintner? He didn't do anything to deserve that!)

The "mean-spirited" charge probably comes from the fact that the death-as-justice in the film isn't as perfectly, "morally" calibrated as the deaths are in virtually every movie Spielberg made after "Jaws." (Remember Alex Kintner? He didn't do anything to deserve that!)

Gremlins 2 is to my mind the closest something that preceded The Simpsons has ever come to achieving Simpson-esque comedy. (Or I guess it makes more sense to just call it an antecedent or forbear or influence, but I have no idea if it actually influenced The Simpsons.) ESPECIALLY jokes like the ones involving the…

Gremlins 2 is to my mind the closest something that preceded The Simpsons has ever come to achieving Simpson-esque comedy. (Or I guess it makes more sense to just call it an antecedent or forbear or influence, but I have no idea if it actually influenced The Simpsons.) ESPECIALLY jokes like the ones involving the…

It's amazing. It lives up to the hype: brilliant, heartbreaking, funny, sad. I don't know why it surprised me that Ware turned out a second masterpiece, but it did. I might be uniquely receptive to it right now because I'm going through a phase of frustration with my own internet-addled reading habits—perpetual…

It's amazing. It lives up to the hype: brilliant, heartbreaking, funny, sad. I don't know why it surprised me that Ware turned out a second masterpiece, but it did. I might be uniquely receptive to it right now because I'm going through a phase of frustration with my own internet-addled reading habits—perpetual…

I gave up on "The Twelve," but I'm suspending judgment as I was reading on it my iPad and have a hard time lately finishing any ebooks… I've drifted back to needing a physical copy of a book to get through it.

I gave up on "The Twelve," but I'm suspending judgment as I was reading on it my iPad and have a hard time lately finishing any ebooks… I've drifted back to needing a physical copy of a book to get through it.

God. This exchange prompted me to YouTube Carmela's therapy session with the Jewish psychiatrist. His moral absolutism and Carmella's (failed) attempt to weasel out of hearing the truth he speaks—"So you're saying I need to set better boundaries?"—are just so heartbreaking, and so brilliantly rendered. The show had…

God. This exchange prompted me to YouTube Carmela's therapy session with the Jewish psychiatrist. His moral absolutism and Carmella's (failed) attempt to weasel out of hearing the truth he speaks—"So you're saying I need to set better boundaries?"—are just so heartbreaking, and so brilliantly rendered. The show had…

I believe this is AM Homes 10th "book," not her 10th "novel."

I believe this is AM Homes 10th "book," not her 10th "novel."