Yeah, it's funny that's the detail you remember. The parents had a bit of a counter cultural streak to them which was one of things Pauline Kael praised about the movie in her review. They thought it was fuckin' cool to be living in a haunted house. Also, they smoked pot in the movie.

No kidding, Ralph Bakshi did HI MOM better with FRITZ THE CAT. Still can't figure out what the point of the BE BLACK BABY sequence was supposed to be. The performers were disappointed that the white audience enjoyed it and so their goal was to make them more closed off and racist?

When he was a teenager, dude filmed his Dad cheating on his Mom.

It's an OK piece, but I think that like much of the television criticism on the AV Club it's overly mechanical as though there is some objective, classically balanced formula for great art and BREAKING BAD falls short. I don't necessarily think the show is beyond criticism. I liked an article on Salon that suggested…

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The Oprah one was pretty funny actually. Still see these very early seasons trying a little too hard.

Actually, Mr. Fastandsloppy, like most films of the 1930s TRIUMPH OF THE WILL is not presented in letterbox, but in a window-boxed (roughly) 1.33:1 aspect ratio. You sir, HAVE FAILED AT THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!

The truth is actually funnier than the myth. He grew a mustache, became a motorcycle cop, and got shot three times while pursuing a car thief.

The truth is actually funnier than the myth. He grew a mustache, became a motorcycle cop, and got shot three times while pursuing a car thief.

SPRING BREAKERS for the win!

SPRING BREAKERS for the win!

A film curriculum of DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU, IN PRAISE OF LOVE, and SOUTHLAND TALES? Is J. Hoberman one of those guys who gets off on putting a tiny steel rod up his urethra so he can't pee?

A film curriculum of DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU, IN PRAISE OF LOVE, and SOUTHLAND TALES? Is J. Hoberman one of those guys who gets off on putting a tiny steel rod up his urethra so he can't pee?

WTF? I have a copy on DVD. Has it gone out of print? When it came out it was a pretty big release though it was bare-bones and a farily mediocre transfer. Definitely could go for a special edition Blu-Ray release.

TV reviewing is so boring because everybody agrees on what's good and what's not. I've rarely seen a TV critic express a controversial opinion. There really aren't any surprises on this list and I doubt that anybody watches any of these shows or feels particularly passionate about defending them. I actually like 2…

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I've always liked his somewhat more eclectic work more than his accepted classics.

King LOVES Cronenberg and thought that The Dead Zone was great. He additionally said that The Brood is the movie that The Shining should have been.

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She told me that the earth moved and she got wet.

Classic Walter Chaw
"In a way, it could be said that 40 Days and 40 Nights (a title that reimagines Christ's time in the desert being tested by Satan as the period of time a well-heeled young man spends not having sex) functions as an overt assertion that the male phallus is indeed the root of religion: horniness is…

Actually, I must say that after watching Idiocracy I'm much more supportive of the National Endowment for the Arts.