No no no no no!
Look, I know Tarantino is supposed to be Superjesus to people in my age bracket, but come the fuck on. There is no possible way for him to make a Shadow movie that simultaneously encapsulates the things that he likes to do in movies and the things that make the Shadow cool, and I don't expect the…

Man, second grade for me was all Beverly Cleary and Donald Sobol, all the time. Some children's book club (Weekly Reader?) my parents signed up for sent me Dear Mr. Henshaw and Ralph S. Mouse when I was six, and I loved them both, though I don't really think I "got" Henshaw at the time.

Halloween 3 and Batman
Think I've told this story before, but the first time I saw Halloween 3, I didn't see the whole thing. Only about the last half hour, after the plot is uncovered, plus remembering something a friend had said about how the masks "make your head rot", a hilariously cheesy effect that I didn't…