It's a funny joke, but does the writer here not realize that the comedian planned the whole thing?

The minions are actually great. I haven't seen this movie (and the Minions movie was a little overkill) but the minions scenes in Despicable Me 1 and 2 are easily the best parts of the movies.

Cute, but tiresome. We've seen these silly types of videos before. Do you think Looney Tunes or Phineas and Ferb, or pretty much any other kids' cartoon would hold up any better if you analyzed it for logic and violence?

Sigh. My kids are going to want to see this. Ferdinand was never my favorite kids' book, but it was nice, and I didn't mind reading it multiple times. But this movie looks like yet more cutesy, noisy, pointless kids' fare that will have the usual boring life lesson at the end. It will be forgotten as one drop in the…

As one who was old enough in the 90s and even part of the 80s…

First date with a girl I met at a party. Very pretty and cool, but religious. Like all of America, Twin Peaks had taken over a portion of my life. So when I heard that the director of Twin Peaks had made a movie, I had to see it. (I'd never heard of Lynch before this, though I'd heard of Blue Velvet — it sounded to me…

I saw him perform for the first time a few months ago, and it included some of this material. Most of it was quite strong, but not up to his best stuff. Still, he kept us laughing throughout, sometimes with shock but mostly just because he's still a very funny guy.

My kids have been watching almost all the films mentioned here, off and on, over that past few years, so I've absorbed a lot of it. Of the Shrek movies, the first is the only one I can stand. I recognize that it was probably really funny and original when it was first released, but I wasn't watching animated movies…

The point doesn't have to be that Shrek was first. Rather, it was that Shrek was so successful that it becomes the film that influenced the general direction of animated features.

"Ironically, it’s her knack for self-deprecation that makes it feel so satisfying when she tackles the most insidious elements of society."

This is a good set. The review makes it sound like feminism takes over the material, but she's not heavy-handed at all. It's not her best stuff, but it's definitely Jen, so pretty funny.

I'm happy to see there are others who find Now You See Me to be just plain bad. I was suckered into it by some good reviews, and afterwards I really wished I could have a few words with the reviewers. The movie went for spectacle, and didn't even try to have realistic characters, dialog, or motivation. The entire film…

I would say that Arrowsmith is the epitome of passable. When young, I liked it though I didn't understand it all. When I re-read it in my 20s, I felt it was weak. While Lewis has interesting (though dated) ideas, many characters and situations are hopelessly cliched. At some points, I felt like I was reading a…

I don't really like Oasis, but there's no denying the power of Wonderwall. That confident, in-your-face, singing. Just the other day I was flipping stations in the car while my kids (7 and 5) sat in back, and we heard the last 2/3 of it. The normal noise from the kids went silent, and at the end of the song my…

In Mamet movies it's always hard to tell if the acting is bad or the actors are just following Mamet's consciously stilted dialog and staging. Rebecca Pidgeon always gets singled out in this film for a particularly bad job, but when I watched it I didn't notice anything wrong with her — the whole cast seems… off.…

Religious people sometimes do have a point when they talk about how secular society is acting in a damaging way. As an example, the pop culture focus on women's bodies and sexualizing young girls. There are other topics where I also sometimes find myself agreeing with them, to my horror (charity, kindness to…

I enjoyed the first book, but the movie, wow, it's bad. When I first saw it in the theater it was somewhat enjoyable, but rewatching it on cable is a trial. It's still a bit entertaining thanks to the leads, but the plot is straight out of romcom hell. It's weird how they took a somewhat original book, with a clever,…

I see a lot of Kevin Smith hate here, and I'm sure some of it is warranted, but not all. It seems to me that he never would have received so much abuse if he hadn't become such a personality cult figure.

Yesterday Fleetwood Mac; today Tom Petty? Is this site starting to cater to old folks like me? Weird. Truth, I'd prefer if you stick to the current stuff - I know these guys too well to be interested.

These Ice Age movies are annoying. My son is already caught between me telling him facts and certain religious people telling him fairy tales and that Dinosaurs never existed. These movies just make it even more confusing. "Oh, so there really were dinosaurs? And they lived during the last ice age?"