Somehow, I feel personally responsible for Kevin Smith's poor work. I grew up in Fair Haven, which is right next to Red Bank. There was a lot of excitement, and a "local boy does good" atmosphere.
Clerks came out when I was around 6th-7th grade, and by the time I saw it, I liked it. I liked Mallrats. I liked…

I think this would be a valid problem except for two things.
1 - the writing doesn't center around race, at least as far as I know.
2 - he isn't periodically making new, annoying comments a la Orson Scott Card.

I really loved the 90s comic, probably up through about issue 26.
The dynamic of the team was a lot of fun. Night Thrasher was trying to take things too seriously, but would lose control more quickly.
Nova was too powerful, but also a little too uneducated.
Speedball was sort of a pest to everyone else, but I liked his…

Who was hotter? Gilda or Madeline?

This is one of those shows where I know I'm never going to run into anyone else who has watched it. And it's nearly impossible to describe. I don't even understand what kind of comic sensibilities it plays to.

Thank you for mentioning Poison Ivy. It's probably my favorite camp movie. (Well, Wet Hot American Summer fills about the same role)
But nearly every performance in it seems like they knew exactly how silly the whole thing was.
Camp Cucamonga made an effort to cover similar ground, but that one was bathed in 90s…

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

"a heroin addicted jazz critic"

It's remarkable how little development happens in this show. Kevin remains a jerk. If anything, he gets to be more of a jerk as the series goes on.
Winnie remains mostly a 2-D cutout with inscrutable, vaguely worried facial expressions.
At least by having Kevin and Paul grow apart, we got the impression that Paul grew…

I actually prefer the second Thor to the first one, and she seemed to have more to do during the second one.
But now that I've rewatched the first one, it's pretty clear that she's actually the weakest element in both of them. I can't tell how much of it is just an underwritten part, and how much is that she isn't…

What a disappointment. I don't know what I was expecting though.
I started off feeling more ambivalent about the remake. The last trailer made me think this was a little more promising.
Now this… it starts off sounding like an effort to imitate some modern country sounds.
The performance seems to lack passion.
Then,…

I only felt like it was especially sexist at the beginning, and after the first season, it really toned down.
However, I am watching The Brady Bunch, and I'm seeing a handful of episodes with much more sexist undercurrents, primarily selling the message that girls are terrible at doing non-girl approved activities.

You linked to the one track of hers that I keep on my phone.
I especially like her version of Girl from Ipanema.

Butt Paste is a thing… and there is a brand of skin cream called Butt'r. I don't think it's much of a stretch for Butt Butter to exist.

Come on. Stilt-man has already been teased in Daredevil, and would clearly get his stilts from the guy who becomes the Gladiator.
I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

I've never cared for Matchbox 20.
But this is actually a good impression of Rob Thomas. He's modest, he's aware of his place in the world, and he comes across as pleasant.

It's a very solid album, with only one track that I would consider filler (Look Away).
I'm also one of the few people that enjoyed their second and third albums. The fourth and fifth were less enjoyable.
And their album of covers was fairly good.

Man, I love Fatov.

I only learned about the Shaggs sometime in the last year or so. I still haven't sat through more than a few songs.
But I still think it's remarkably interesting music. It takes a certain sort of ear to be able to play simultaneously, and still ignore the beat the way they do.

That picture of him makes me think that Fred Armisen is playing him.