That film is especially noteworthy for its choreography and costume design.

Random East of Eden story: I saw the film for the first time a few years ago and, though I hadn't seen either of James Dean's other movies either, I felt like I was somehow already familiar with him; like, as if I had already been well exposed to his particular style and persona. Then after a while I realized why:…

That's the problem with authoritarian dictators these days - they're just not authoritarian and dictatorial enough.

Steven Seagal is… The Onion Movie.

You mean Exhibit F.

I had never heard of this one before, but it looks kind of amazing, starting with the tagline: "The end of a season means the beginning of a new one."

I'm a bit flummoxed at how many recent Seagal movies there are - according to IMDb he's starred in no less than seven films this year. Is there really that much of a market for bad latter-day Seagal movies? I mean, I get that there are people who thought that his 90s stuff was so bad-ass that they're still willing to…

WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM

Not to overhype, but I legitimately think that's one of the best-ever TAL stories.

Also it's so infuriating hearing Boomers complaining about lazy, entitled Millennials, because there are so many ways in which Boomers had things so much easier. Obviously not true across the board, but like, the same sort of job that might've provided a Boomer with a reliable middle-class income could now be, for a…

This Tweet should forever be the last word on the subject:

Nate Silver was very, very wrong.

There's also a band called Austrian Death Machine, with songs like "Get to the Choppa," "Who Is Your Daddy, And What Does He Do?," "I Am a Cybernetic Organism, Living Tissue Over (Metal) Endoskeleton," and "Here Is Subzero, Now Plain Zero." Makes you wonder how many Schwarzenegger-centric bands there are out there.

I love these lists. This guy also did one for Carter and one for Clinton. Carter, it seems, is a true film buff and his presidency overlapped with a great era in American movie-making, so his list is pretty killer (Network! Nashville! The French Connection! All the President's Men two days after he took office! Star…

Yeah, Happy Hour was definitely one of the best films I saw this year (and I saw some really good films for the first time this year, too). It actually played for about a week at the Museum of Modern Art here in NYC (which is how I saw it) and got a bit of media attention as such (though not very much). One of the…

Sometimes I'll just do a Google image-search for Wally Wood and bask in his genius for a little while. It's a shame that he was such a miserable, tormented fuck, but it's heartening to see how so much of his art has survived the years in ways that most commercial cartooning work simply doesn't.

Those are ads? But, what about those late-teenage Russian women with boobs bigger than their heads whom, I've been told, want to date me - those notices weren't ads, just a public-service message of sorts, exclusively for me. Right?

You might not believe it, but yes, I've known about the so-called 'alt-right' for about two years now; I first heard of it as an ideology practiced by some members of a particular online hate movement (the name is probably still best not typed-out in searchable terms, but it rhymes with 'framer bait'). Clinton's…

I've been seeing "neo-Nazi" and "white nationalist" - the problem with "white supremacy" is that white supremacy has a much more common dimension to it - like, the landlord who refuses to rent his nice apartment to a non-white family might not be wearing swastika armbands, but he's still upholding a sort of white…

I actually feel like this is probably a marker of just how depraved and damaging so much online discourse has become (to say nothing of national political discourse). Like, Tequila seems to be someone who goes after internet attention wherever it can be found (MySpace! Reality TV! Goofy pop music! Juggalos! Porn!) and…