I have an old-school account and the e-mail address associated with it is defunct (and there's no apparent way to change it), so…yeah.

The first book is the standout of the series not because it's technically better-written but because it starts to tell a story that, once upon a time, the author was clearly invested in for its own sake.

That's basically how I react to my bathroom mirror.

'I remember I walked up to Spielberg and said, “Steven, I want to capture one of these little aliens and drag him into a Porta Potty. I’ll throw my coat over him and drag him in there, and we’ll have one.” And he looked at me like… He looked at me incredulously. Like, “What the fuck?”'

TURN DOWN FOR WHAT

My advice to her would be to do this guy a huge favor by staying away from him. And probably everyone else. That letter suggests that she is a disaster.

I'm not sure about the body count, but the rampant horrors are certainly there. The villain from A Bug's Life dies screaming as he is eaten alive, Finding Nemo starts with someone more-or-less mass murdering babies, Toy Story 3 walks riiiiight up to the edge of burning the entire main cast alive, Brave Little Toaster…

I mean worldbulding in the sense that it answers the question, "What would a world look like if it were populated by sentient cars and no humans." Cars shrugs "Uhhh, bigger doors and fewer stairs, I guess?" which is approximately the laziest possible answer. And then, yeah, the movies expand to show us more stuff that…

*shrug* I liked Darth Vader at that age, and he didn't even smell of strawberries.

'Children’s cartoon characters face “rampant horrors” and live in “hotbeds of murder and mayhem,” according to Dr. Ian Colman and Dr. James Kirkbride, the lead authors of a study published in the British Medical Journal … cartoon characters die 2.5 times as often as characters in adult dramas, and they are frequently…

Asking kids to imagine that their toys come to life when they're not looking is a clean and powerful hook. Asking them to imagine a world where everything goes along basically as it does here, except there are no children to play with toys and also everyone is a toy, is stupid and clunky. It's not up to the usual…

Sure, but that still leaves them (in relative terms) a brightly-colored mess seemingly slapped together as an excuse for a lot of car-related dad jokes and "remember this thing? eh? eh?" pokes in the ribs. I got most of the puns (admittedly not all of them), but stringing them together didn't make for much of a movie.…

Hey, that's Thursday, October 19 in my Big Little Calendar of Inspirational Cliffhanger Quotes:

The details vary but he has some mystical/divine enhancement.

That's the one shot that I'd nitpick in this otherwise great trailer. Shitty farewelling-the-Titanic effects, and staging so absurdly cheesy that it looks like a leftover from a Star Wars prequel.

Bruce Wakanda, impoverished third-world playboy nation, lives a secret life as Bat Panther, wealthy hyper-advanced crimefighting superpower.

The whole thing looked pretty badass.

The Pink Panther has it covered.

When Depp made this movie it was called Blow.

Revvin' up your engine
Smuggling run with guns and coke
DEA attention
Beggin' you to do some blow