Po-Mo Mo-Fo speaks the truth. I think this is part of the reason I didn't get into Arcade Fire's 2010 album all that much. They're hugely popular and critically acclaimed, and their widely-anticipated new album is a concept piece about how awful life and growing up in the suburbs is/are? Really, now. Go out, have some…

A glance at IMDB informs me that I clearly have not watched My Name is Earl.

I was watching Unstoppable and I realized one of the actors was 'that fat kid from Boy Meets World.' He is the son of Vader, as I recall. Hadn't thought of the show in years, and yet, somehow that seared itself deep into my memory.

The House at the Edge of the Park, the even cheaper Italian ripoff starring the same male lead made by Cannibal Holocaust-director Ruggero Deodato - is perhaps the single sleaziest, rapiest movie I've ever seen.

I'm not suggesting a concept of 'blackness', nor that my opinions, the 90s TGIF lineup or Tyler Perry's movies reflect it authentically (or inauthentically). More what I was getting at was that those sitcoms were designed for and marketed to white audiences in a way that Tyler Perry's movies are not, something that…

I think scoop94 is on to something, along with others who have said that Tyler Perry makes white folks like myself uncomfortable because it suggests a step backward from a 'post-racial' society (or, at least, post-racial entertainment). At various points growing up I watched Family Matters, Hanging with Mr. Cooper,…

@Ghaleon. I'm not alleging that Bambi is the Brothers Quay, or that every element is excellent (though I believe most are). But for the reasons I listed and others have brought up, if it were released today, I think its style and atmosphere would be seen as commercially risky and fairly noncomformist. Perhaps this…

While I haven't watched Super Size Me, I would like to enter the following actual McDonald's advertisement into evidence:

If this were released today, it would be considered an art film
probably not get a wide theatrical release Stateside, and be compared to movies like Studio Ghibli's, "Waltz with Bashir" or "The Triplets of Belleville" before anyone would think to bring up anything Disney has done in the last decade or two (Pixar…

My high school mass media teacher stated, on more than one occasion, that there were significantly fewer hunting licenses issued in the season immediately following Bambi's release. Anyone with some internet savvy able to find a citation to confirm or disprove this?

Supernanny's March

Yeah, the Slacktivist's ongoing page-by-page dismantling of the series is excellent and I recommend everyone jump randomly into it somewhere. I had no idea books could be so bad. I mean, really. Like 1/4 the world's population disappears, and all everyone seems to think about is how to hail a cab or what that…

I wouldn't necessarily call Slither a 'cult classic', but I seem to like it better than most folk on this thread. Good concept, keeps moving, had me laughing throughout. It could, arguably, be the best horror comedy of the decade - not near as memorable as stuff Peter Jackson and Troma made back in the day, but for a…

Does anyone know what the law actually says governing posthumous use of a person's name, image and/or likeness? As in, I watched Limitless recently and found out from the end credits that "Bruce Lee is a registered trademark of Bruce Lee Enterprises." How in the hell can a person become a registered trademark?

I looked at the otaku samurai plot as like a Simpsons Halloween episode - out-of-character for the sake of amusement. Which, speaking of, I echo Zombie Shakespeare - the downed pilot was the only section that made me roll my eyes.

Of the comics I've really gotten into , some (Preacher, Transmetropolitan) are driven by the same creative team and had the good sense to be finite, to tell a story and be done with it. Both the examples I used didn't end as well as they started, but that was more because the writers were better at creating a vivid…

I had the same experience - "He he, they're really sticking it to that Spiro Agnew guy." But in the end, I probably had a greater awareness of history and culture because of Mad, as well as an abiding cynicism about politics.

Excuse me, Nightmare on Elm Street, Part II.

Also, Friday the 13th, Part II.

Don't feel bad, Phipps
Movies in which I've missed the gay subtext: