I’ve been going down movie memory lane with two Gen Z’ers...not my own kids, but my wife’s younger siblings. Back to the Future fell utterly flat, which was a shame. But a TON of Spielberg holds up, it’s pretty crazy.

I think it’s funny how we talk about the per-screen average of art movies outperforming Marvel flicks, as it’s clearly a stacked deck - those five movie theaters are always in LA or NY, full of people who actually care about Oscar season and “the big screen experience” and shit. It’s like a harmless version of…

Speaking as someone who tried to score tickets for his 13-year-old niece (and her 8-year-old sister), Taylor is most certainly still a very, very, very big deal with that age group.

Cobain never wrote a song that was a match for her guitar prowess, so her best weapon is under-utilized. And she doesn’t have his paint-peeling wail. Yeah they’re just not really a fit.

I cannot wait to see Lamborghini tell Ferrari how to take a car, and then transmogrify it into an exclusive clip from the film Lamborghini. Watching all of the various parts - tires, exhaust, leather seats and more - slowly morph into bite-size video content for an internet blog will be truly haunting and fascinating!

There’s a surface, aesthetic reason for it, which is to faintly simulate the experience of watching a stage play where there are (obviously) no cuts. But it never gets deeper than that. Birdman drove me absolutely nuts. For a movie / filmmaker that clearly hates critics, it felt like a movie made by one...bursting…

Let’s stick with 20 years, please don’t make me feel any older than I have to

I remember being somewhat disappointed by Part 2, and the first 15 minutes of Part 3 being so fucking incredible that the entire theater started to get energized by the fleeting possibility that it may STAY this incredible the entire time. Then that didn’t happen either. But oh well, I’ll keep showing up for these…

Language evolves. The old example I always trot out is how everyone pronounces “forte” for-tay, as in “That’s not my forte.” They really should be pronouncing it “Fort.” But alas, too late...the ship has sailed. And it doesn’t bug anyone except people like me who have the original pronunciation still kicking around in…

This was especially glaring in The Man From UNCLE, where she positively towered over Superman and could almost, but not quite, look Armie Hammer eye-to-eye. And with him out of the picture, who’s left to play her romantic leads? Cousin Greg from Succession?

2007 banged real real hard. So many more examples as well...Assassination of Jesse James, Persepolis, Eastern Promises (not sure if that’s held up), Hot Fuzz, Ratatouille, King of Kong, Gone Baby Gone, The Savages, The Mist, and uhhhh the first 75% of Sunshine

Feels quite a bit like the chickens coming home to roost for white supremacist female voters: “Punish the others, yes? Don’t punish me. I like having you around to hurt them, the cruelty is delicious and funny...but just don’t pass the law that punishes me specifically.”

I’m probably remembering this wrong, but in an interview with Cormac McCarthy, he said the only thing the Coens invented whole cloth was the bit with the dog and the river, which he loved.

Same with horror, it ruins scares when you can see a character’s line of dialogue is about to be cut off.

I think we’re well past reaching, and I think it’s getting pretty evident what the answer is.

It’s 100% dick-measuring.

My parents love the “Mommy’s little piggy” scene and the house will stop bustling on Christmas Day/Eve to watch that scene when it’s on TV. Otherwise yeah, it’s just wallpaper at this point. Most of the movie’s comedic engine runs on watching a dopey kid’s face do nothing for 20 seconds while an adult rambles on in a…

Actress’ memoirs: “Here are all the ways men were fairly awful to me back in the day.

Euphoria seems like one of those shows where half the fanbase loves the hot cast, and enjoys the show very much in spite of its writer/director. When a typical positive review is “Fuck Sam, but Zendaya ATE THAT,” it really doesn’t merit a placement on this list until everyone in their 30s is dead and buried. Like,…

I’m more happy Resurrection exists than I am interested in ever rewatching it. I like that humans are more chill with robots now, I dug the “moving portals” concept, I like the switcheroo they pulled with Trinity and Neo, I liked the extended “fuck WB, fuck legacy sequels” first act. But Fishburne and Weaving were two…