I liked Wreck-it Ralph a lot, while being fully aware that it was calibrated to push my buttons (as a 30-something gamer dad with a 4-year-old son). I think Pixar's collaboration on the Disney brand stuff means we get the basic Disneyness, but with a boost to the heart and smarts. If you didn't tear up at the end of…

So it 's about hunters that secretly go after demons that hide in plain sight in the real world? Sounds like the Constantine movie (which was a horrible adaptation of Hellblazer, but a pretty decent flick).

That video highlights how much better a singer Freddie Mercury was than Michael Jackson. It also sounds like something that would play over the credits of a sappy 70's movie.

If I have to read one more review that says this "improves upon its predecessor" and praises the Safe Haven segment, I may have to drop-kick a puppy. V/H/S was uneven and overlong, but featured three stand-out segments. More importantly, it kept the viewer locked into that claustrophobic first-person perspective,…

Neutral Milk Hotel's, "In the Aeroplane over the Sea." Sure, 'Oh, Comely' is daunting the first couple of listens, at over eight minutes long, but very quickly you come to understand there's not a wasted moment or bum track on the album. As a single work of art, it's perfect.

I just watched it for the first time and am sampling the critical response, which baffles me. How was this movie in any way scary? What chemistry between the two leads? They barely share a couple of sentences of dialog! How is this a classic? It's a prolonged shrug, and Bill Paxton is, as always, profoundly irritating.

DJ Earworm has always been a favorite of mine. http://www.youtube.com/watc…

DJ Earworm has always been a favorite of mine. http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Pretty awesome. I still prefer Aimee Mann's laid-back take on the tune, though. That whole album (One More Drifter in the Snow) is worth a Christmas spin.

Y'know, I can't stand classic rock. But I'm 34 now, and I would love a radio station devoted to 90's rock. And not just Nirvana, Pearl Jam, et al. I'm talking all the affable bar bands that got a shot at the spotlight, one-hit-wonders for the most part. Gimme Sister Hazel's "All For You," Tonic's "If You Keed Onlah…

I'm kind of baffled at how this showed up on all of my web feeds yesterday.  Sure, it uses a music database and a lot of meta tags on existing data to serve up results, but the results it serves up are pure fuckin' gibberish. It's not random, but it might as well be.

All of these people doing Alexandria's hair are professionals, right? So they'd know if, say, their client had a gigantic bulging egg-shaped forehead that needed bangs to make her look even remotely human, right?

Allow me to enlighten y'all with the lyrics to the Angel theme, as divinely revealed to my wife and I on our third trip through the entire series. It starts when the cello kicks in, and is best sung loud and operatic:

The Ring creeped me right the hell out the first time I watched it. Even more than the actual Samara out of the TV, the atmosphere creeped me out — it's all claustrophobic close shots, grainy texture, weirdly color-corrected, even outside of the deadly video tape.

I played it for half an hour. It kept shoveling mindless achievements (you walked four steps!), mindless quests (walk four more steps!), and creepiness (put lotion on your hands and milk this butterfly) at me until I logged out. I don't plan on logging back in.

But where were the spiders?
When the flies tried to break our balls?

Speaking of which, the Cake cover of Mahna-Mahna is all the cover of that song you need.

Yeah, fuck that noise. And fuck me for watching this show four seasons running, all the while knowing 12-year-old girls are going to swoop in and fuck up the voting just when it's crucial.

Well, Narnia didn't do all that great, actually, and other franchise attempts have been non-starters (See Percy Jackson & The Olympians, The Golden Compass . . .)

I would rather see it with a different writer. Akiva Goldsman is flat-out incapable of writing a line of dialogue that an actual human being might say, and his 'serious drama' plotting involves taking stock dramatic moments and stringing them together without any depth to connect 'em. I'll never understand why he got…