Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July are good.  JFK tried to convince us, with utmost accusatory earnestness, that Lyndon B. Johnson was responsible for Kennedy's assassination.  Stone even had Costner look into the camera and demand LBJ come clean.  That's equal parts brash and imbecilic.  Stone made an entire…

I don't know about the whole movie, but Kristen Stewart's epic Rally The Troops speech in the climax has to the worst battle cry in the history of movies… and the human race.

I don't know about the whole movie, but Kristen Stewart's epic Rally The Troops speech in the climax has to the worst battle cry in the history of movies… and the human race.

I'm not rating the second season low.  Of the five best dramatic seasons in the history of television, being number five isn't an insult.  I just don't think it's as good as the other four.  The fourth season is the most poignant (the kids are just so endearing), the third season has the sharpest satire (Hamsterdam is…

Hey Arnold! holds up a lot better than a lot of those other shows.  Old Rugrats are still great, but Arnold is in a lot of ways superior.

I watched Hey Arnold! when I was a kid and always thought it was so-so, not great like Rugrats or Doug, but watchable.  Having returned to it recently on Netflix, I've realized how mature and tough-minded it always was: there's the episode where Helga gets the maid fired and is left to ponder her own poor-choices and…

Best Wire moment ever:  "Where's Wallace?  Where's Wallace, String?  Where the fuck is Wallace?!?"

One of the major themes of The Wire is that everything is connected, and without McNulty and Templeton's great ruse, that young reporter never finds Bubbles and never helps him tell his story, come to terms with his past, and change his life.  Not everything that happens out of other people miscalculations is…

"It's a series of performances rather than a story."  That sums the movie up perfectly.  It's all arias, close-up solos that play like monologues as opposed to part of a cohesive whole where story and characters can come together to create compelling drama and convey themes and ideas.  Hooper got so rapped up in…

"It's a series of performances rather than a story."  That sums the movie up perfectly.  It's all arias, close-up solos that play like monologues as opposed to part of a cohesive whole where story and characters can come together to create compelling drama and convey themes and ideas.  Hooper got so rapped up in…

That was my pick for the BEST movie of the year!!!  The Oogieloves are a statement on Nietzche's Will To Power as it applies to contemporary society's growing secularity, and how that must be resolved with an adherence to Conservative moral values.  Doesn't anyone else notice this?!?!?!?!

That was my pick for the BEST movie of the year!!!  The Oogieloves are a statement on Nietzche's Will To Power as it applies to contemporary society's growing secularity, and how that must be resolved with an adherence to Conservative moral values.  Doesn't anyone else notice this?!?!?!?!

The Master is a movie for grown ups.  Stick to something your own speed, like The Dark Knight Rises.

The Master is a movie for grown ups.  Stick to something your own speed, like The Dark Knight Rises.

Is that Vatican's sequel to Romeo Must Die?  Cause I loved Sweden's version, ABBA Must Die!

Is that Vatican's sequel to Romeo Must Die?  Cause I loved Sweden's version, ABBA Must Die!

It's the most frustrating thing when you sit down to watch great movies with people who just don't get them.  Not that they're stupid; they just don't have any patience for art, or subtly, or nuance, or anything remotely challenging.  Most viewers are like that, which is why I only watch art films a) with people who…

It's the most frustrating thing when you sit down to watch great movies with people who just don't get them.  Not that they're stupid; they just don't have any patience for art, or subtly, or nuance, or anything remotely challenging.  Most viewers are like that, which is why I only watch art films a) with people who…

Red Dawn was really bad, too.  Oh, and so was The Dark Knight Rises.  I was equally bored in both, but at least Red Dawn wasn't an hour too long and 10 thousands leagues passed pretentious.  

Red Dawn was really bad, too.  Oh, and so was The Dark Knight Rises.  I was equally bored in both, but at least Red Dawn wasn't an hour too long and 10 thousands leagues passed pretentious.