Has anyone else here mentioned that this was based on an actual incident where some asshole got caned in Singapore? Because it totally was. Even the Prime Minister floating in the pond is a direct reference to Lee Kuan Yew.

Reckless Kelly is long overdue for a revival

AMC has been all downhill since they canceled Remember WENN

The fact that this post is as long as it is should be a sign by itself that I don't care for this review, though I'm not going to do a point-by-point fisking. The Grandmaster is held up for comparison, which is reasonable enough since this was blatantly made to cash in on that film (albeit before anyone had seen it).…

They came out as close as they did because The Final Fight was explicitly made to cash in on The Grandmaster. Just like The Legend Is Born (from the same director) was released to cash in on Ip Man 2, which in turn was released because Ip Man 1 made boatloads of money and people like money. The Grandmaster was from…

There's been some Bruce Lee projects in recent years. Bruce Lee, My Brother came out in 2010 and there was a TV series (The Legend of Bruce Lee) the year before that. The movie is pretty weak but I've heard decent things about the TV series. There's also a Hollywood production in the works called Birth of the Dragon…

That article is definitely referring to a Flawed Dogs adaptation, even if they don't explicitly mention the book. The main human character in Flawed Dogs is named Heidy (spelled "Heidi" in the article), and the book is about some dogs who crash the Westminster Dog Show in Manhattan. (Though Baumbach and Gerwig seem to…

Marvel has said flat-out that it's not Luke Cage. Rumor is it's Rage from the New Warriors, since they added a picture of him to the Marvel logo at the beginning of the trailer.

This is actually a pretty good movie. I want to write more about it but I'm feeling too lazy right now. And it's about 1 AM here. I'll post more later, so WATCH THIS SPACE.

My dad dug the original "Superman races the Flash" issue from the '60s, which
means "who can run faster" is one of the very few pathetic-geek questions he and I could actually discuss. Then I brought up how they killed Barry Allen back in the '80s but brought him back a few years ago by explaining that he spent…

"[Clash] and the associated verb are first found about 1500, and appear to be onomatopœic; arising, in the main, from instinctive association with classes of pre-existing echoic words. The initial element is that of clap, clack, etc.; the final that of dash, splash, smash, swash, etc., or perhaps a direct imitation of…

@avclub-52eba8d6dce7dbdc1382155987e0a1f1:disqus That was the Silver/Bronze Age version. In the initial post-Crisis version, only the cape was made from the blankets, and the rest of the costume was made by his mother, from regular Earth fabrics. The only reason it didn't tear was because a "protective aura" extended…

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Mr. Freeze knows.

He "vibrates through" solid objects. I think it also has something to do with the whole crazy "Speed Force" thing, which is what keeps him from horrifically burning himself or running a hole through the ground. It doesn't make any sense but it's comic-book logic, like "Superman has an aura that keeps his costume from…

I always assumed that billboard was referring to wedding anniversaries.

This is the first Dyess-Nugent SNL review I've read since the first one and nope, I didn't miss anything

We didn't have Big 5 around us (apparently there's six in all of Texas, which isn't many for a state of that size), so I had no idea what that line meant at first. I originally assumed it was some sort of gangster-movie slang I hadn't picked up on.

I am shocked that you of all people did not include the exchange immediately following:

"Inhale, Chachi, inhale!"
"Who the fuck's 'Chachi'?"