And what an amazing send-off too, right?

“[Host] proves to be charmingly game / up for anything, but the writing lets them down” has got to be the most revised and repurposed headline in the history of AV Club. It’s like having to review Water every week and finding a slightly different way to say “it’s wet.”

Same with Daniel Day Lewis (who used to have Strong as an assistant). It’s wacky as fuck, but I dunno...I guess if they’re not hurting anyone, then it’s certainly worth the results they get.

Didn’t Cage famously hate working with the Coen Brothers, because he wanted freedom to riff and improvise and they demand every word and punctuation mark be spoken as written?

I know it should be dispiriting that these movies have ditched the darkly comedic tone that *makes* an Evil Dead movie. But I think they work because Ash isn’t in them. He’s such a force of nature that whenever he encounters the Necronomicon, the resulting chaos has more than a touch of Three Stooges anarchy. He’s…

Wonder how they felt when they looked at the train crash sequence in 48 fps. Did they all go “oh my fucking god, it feels like a Ps3 game, we’re fucked”? Because that’s what I would have done. Maybe that’s why I’m not making billion-dollar movies I guess...

Watching Home Alone as an adult is a trip. The best stuff is just the comfy hangout vibes of Kevin learning to live alone in a big house (also Catherine O’Hara and John Candy over-delivering in a very under-promising subplot). Once we actually get to the fireworks factory and Kevin is wasting those two dudes, it gets…

Music biopics are always, with a set of exceptions you could count on one hand, horrifically bad. They are anti-storytelling in the extreme, just a series of wikipedia data points with the barest attempt to add drama to them. But it was foolish of us to think that Walk Hard would end this genre. People really, really,…

Not gonna watch this ‘til I have kids, but good to know it’ll be there waiting for me, not sucking.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, MST3K (granted, I actually prefer the riffing a little bit in the season 5 ep “Santa Claus,” but it’s a less watchable movie and this ep has Crow singing “A Patrick Swayze Christmas”).

I would say his worst are these Avatar movies by far, but I have to accept that it’s because their whole *deal* just doesn’t click with me. And on a base level of competency (like, action-movie geography and effects innovation) they’re rock solid, which means you can’t be Ludovico-tortured with them. Seriously, try it…

I was right there with you in that guess for Season 3, until they showed the family photo and Dern was nowhere in it.

Hope he’s killed in an accident, happy holidays everyone else

Not a fan of the movie but I agree with your take here - I think when she goes to southeast Asia, it’s meant to throw us off-center for a bit: Is she running away, is she taking a vacation? And then the stinger arrives, which tells us she’s taking a gig full of audience members who don’t know her or give a shit about w…

About the only thing I remember from her adaptation is Bob Odenkirk saying “My little women!” The way it cut to him, plus his line delivery, plus the...sudden Bob-ness of it all...just really made it seem like a sketch all of a sudden, or at least a meme.

It’s been diminishing returns for me each time, albeit still finding things to like about each installment (Midnight Mass, despite its avalanche of punishing, nobody-told-him-to-stop monologues, delivered on the goods when it finally got there). This was the first one where we dipped after episode 2. Cabinet of…

I don’t know how it continues to be talked about like a possibility. The Hollywood Reporter runs an article every Oscar season where they interview a few anonymous voters (The Producer, The Writer, etc.) and down the line every choice they make is political or petty. It’s a running gag how much these voters hate…

Exactly. It’s completely over. There’s no coming back from this, there’s no redemption. Fuck ‘em all.

If Ragnarok had come out in the past two years it would have been savaged for being woke, LGBTQ-adjacent, kiddie bullshit that “ruined Thor’s deep Viking heritage and lore.” It caught a nice dip where angry men were at least stoked that Trump was president and the last Thor movie was so mediocre no one really cared.

Those are five words in a row!