I just watched this for the first time last night (trying to use quarantine to get through a lot of my film blind spots) and I have mixed feelings. It’s a very well-made film from a technical perspective and the cast do a great job with the script. On the other hand, this movie has the most Boomer energy of any film…

While I agree that Disney’s edits to Splash are dumb and that they’re a bunch of puritans, it’s fair to say that before the invention of the PG-13 rating a lot of 80s movies that were rated PG had stuff in them that no PG-rated movie released today would have. 

I watched this last night with my wife and really enjoyed it. It’s a very fun and breezy 90 minutes that manages to make some heartfelt points about depression and relationships without stopping the plot in its tracks to make its more serious points (which I find that too many modern comedies *cough*thanks Judd…

I think this movie fell into the same trap that a lot of movies about Vietnam do in that it is superficially sympathetic to the suffering the United States inflicted on the Vietnamese people but quickly moves past that to focus on the real story: the complicated emotions that American men have about war.

The big ideas in Foundation are excellent, but the plot and character work are not as well executed. Your enjoyment of the book(s) will really depend on how much weight you as a reader place on those different aspects of a novel.

I just finished Final Fantasy XV and honestly it was rough. I enjoyed the open world parts of the game but was super disappointed that once you leave Lucis it becomes less of an RPG and more of a straightforward action/adventure game, with waaaayyyy too many cut-scenes. The character choices were also often odd - I…

Same - it’s been many years since I’ve read a Clive Cussler book but when I was a precocious 12-year old ready to read “grown-up” books (it was still a couple more years before I started reading “serious literature” for fun) my dad’s Cussler books were some of the first that I tackled. I have many happy memories of…

I didn’t love Jaskier at first, but he grew on me. In general I thought this show was at its best when it had a sense of humor about itself and let the actors have fun with their characters and at its worst when it was self-seriously grim.

Outer Worlds was my favorite of the year. A fun RPG where your decisions have real consequences, but you can play through it, sidequests included, in 25 hours. Much as I love an RPG I can sink 120 hours into, I’m a new dad and don’t have that kind of time anymore, so I appreciate a developer putting out such a solid…

I would also say that a lot of people justifiably worried about mid-budget cinema being crowded out blame superheros, sequelitis, etc. (and it’s fine to dislike the Marvel movies or the endless reboots of 80s properties!) when their ire ought to be directed at studio consolidation and the dual impact that streaming…

Fine by me. While I enjoyed a few of the Marvel TV shows, on the whole I found them to be too wrapped up in old school ideas about being “gritty” and “grounded” at a time when other live action superhero adaptations were hitting new heights by embracing the most out-there aspects of the source material. 

I, too, am bewildered by my wife’s habit of positioning dirty knives in the sink so that I’m most likely to accidentally cut myself when I go to wash the dishes, but I don’t see what that has to do with sports.

I think your perception of how big of a gap there is in good homemade vs. good restaurant food depends on what kind of food you cook most often and what kind of ingredients are available to you. If you’re a white American who can cook reasonably well and has access to a decent grocery store, your best Italian food or…

This sucks - minor league baseball is one of the only ways to watch the game live with your kids or a large group of friends if you’re not rich. Even raising ticket prices $10-15 to cover the cost of paying the players a living wage (which is long overdue!) would still make it a bargain compared to MLB prices.

So many of the NFL’s problems come from their refusal to let players have any kind of personality or style. The league office, and essentially every GM, dream of a team full of Tom Bradys - vapid drones who never say or do anything interesting off the field and who RESPECT THE SHIELD on the field. 

It’s a shame that no one in Jeremy Renner’s life loves him enough to pull him aside and say, “Hey man... the ‘music’ ‘career’? The app? The Jeep ad? What’s going on? You don’t have to do this. There’s no shame in talking to a professional if you’ve been having a tough time lately.”

It’s ticket prices for me. At the old Yankee Stadium it was cheap enough for me to get to 5-6 games per year, even as a college student. Ever since the new one opened and they jacked up prices it’s been much more difficult for me.

$100 for an OUNCE of weed? That can’t be right.

Comparing Jay-Z’s deal with the NFL to Kaepernick’s deal with Nike is just a spectacularly dumb take, ever by your standards, Billy. 

I was kind of disappointed to play this this morning and not hear a conversation about the relative merits of Albert Hammond Jr. vs. Julian Casablancas.