Reality Bites is what happens when someone self-consciously tries to make a film that defines its decade.

Strangely, although the movie defined what '90s movies would be, the movie itself doesn't really feel all that 90s. There are nods to the film being set in then-present day (Vincent's cell phone, Rosanna Arquette's piercings) but for the most part, it feels like a frustrated period piece that would be more…

I think part of the reason that the Japanese generally don't give a damn about the others appropriating their culture is because they have a lot of fun doing it themselves.

I love Grosse Point Blank, but someone needed to do a better job of showing both Cusack and Aykroyd how to (pretend to) fire a gun. Cusack shoots his guns with a highly impractical snap of the wrist when he fires, like a kid gesturing to show his friends that he's supposed to be firing his toy gun. I kept expecting…

I love this movie, but I kinda suspect that Broken Arrow was peak American Woo, and we were already on the downward slide here. Even as down as I was for every little bit of this movie, there's the one moment of Woo-craziness that didn't work at all, with the little kid in the gunfight listening to Somewhere Over the…

Sounds like Sony has as little to do with it as humanly possible.

The How To Train Your Dragon Vikings are specifically supposed to be Norse-Scotsmen—Berk is based on a small island off the coast of Scotland where the author's family lived for a time when she was a kid—so Butler's accent isn't nearly as out of place as the dragon-riding kids, all of whom speak in various forms of…

I'm sure everyone would've had a good laugh if he'd accidentally discharged the weapon while showing Williams his laser sight…

This. To a modern reader, Claremont's idea of a global, multicultural X-Men team is reductive, poorly researched, and to many, outright insulting. It's impossible to get through how ambitious and progressive the comics were when they were written (and not just X-Men—his work on Power Man & Iron Fist was similarly…

…and selling their wife and kids to a local pimp. But it's a really safe house!

Because the president's financial entanglements are a genuine concern of the American people, for the purpose of avoiding abuse of the office, or the appearance of impropriety. Every other person who's run for president since and including Nixon has released their returns voluntarily, since they understood that they…

"A fictional character who's been drawn with yellow hair is in trouble! Racist Internet trolls, assemble!"

You know, I don't mind the discussion, since Republicans have in lockstep adopted the attitude that the issue of Trump's returns has been "litigated" and is now over, and someone should make the counter-argument. Would've been perfectly fine on a slow news day.

I'm sure it will be just as effective as the big MRA protest against The Force Awakens.

Sadly, the Iron Fist comments are inundated on both sides by people who had to look up the Wikipedia entry on Danny Rand before using him as a political football.

The only thing that might've been better if Romney had been elected is that it might've tamped down the panic some Trump supporters felt over the idea that white folks couldn't simply kick Obama out of office after one term. I think a lot of Republicans were counting on being able to label everything Obama did a…

You'd have a hard time imagining that given a) Romney/Obamacare was a conservative think tank proposal, and b) the way Romney relentlessly flogged Massachusetts's health care solution as one of his great achievements, until he no longer could because the Republicans had to sell Obamacare as the worst thing to happen…

Yeah, America Chavez is one of those characters I really want to love but who for the most part has just left me cold. The big power that sets her apart from everyone else is that she curb-stomps between dimensions? She's yet another transdimensional refugee whose home dimension is both very elaborate and not at all…

Hell, yes. That shit's embarrassing, not just that it's probably gone to print, but that they would then feature those errors in a promo for the issue.

I still hold out some hope that the series might have a stronger second half, because I suspect that they might've focused more on the home stretch to set up the Defenders.