I'm torn on this episode. I just saw it for the first time about ten days after the election, and to say that it struck a nerve is an understatement. So much of what they addressed with Waldo's bland, nondescript, anti-everything (except the voters, of course) feeds right into Trump's playbook (right down to the…

The election certainly gives the episode some merit thematically, as it's almost impossible to watch after Nov 8, but it's still not great in its execution. If anything, its poorly thought-out cartoon character being successful is more of a ding on how awful Trump is rather than Trump's success being a retroactive…

I will reluctantly diss Hard Target. It wants to be a great John Woo movie SO BAD, and I can mostly get on board with its monumental, self-aware ridiculousness (something it has in common with Road House, btw), but it just doesn't come together overall.

Monique. She was great in Beerfest

It's not literally shot-for-shot, but it's still clearly a film whose prime purpose is to remind the viewer of a previous film:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-si…

It's not just the box office dollars, either. For decades, Disney has had a financial stake in ensuring that as many public domain stories as possible are seen as unofficial Disney properties. This ensures that each generation equate "fairy tale" with "Disney," and it keeps a pseudo-legal barrier between said…

I didn't get the impression that Felix was being forced to do much, if anything. The other guy may have been acting stupid by agreeing to alter her attributes, but he'd also just recently been threatened by her with a scalpel. So, that was surely on his mind when she started making demands, perhaps even more so than…

A fair point, but at least MMOs give you what they're promising

I got a kick out of the issues of Super Dinosaur I ran across a few years ago. Is he still writing that?

There's gotta be some kind of term for Stockholm Syndrome as applied to serialized entertainment. I got out of this show early, but stuck around with many others long after they'd declined considerably in quality (How I Met Your Mother, Homeland, Downton Abbey, etc) not to mention plenty of comic book series…

"Roger and Me" is terrific, a genuinely engaging look into the death of a town and what happens to its citizens.

"But Hugh Jackman's Wolverine!"

Roger Ebert's review of "Aliens" is possibly my single favorite review of his. It's not an eloquent love letter, nor is it a fun takedown (both of which he was great at.) It's simply a great example of him approaching a movie on its own terms while also acknowledging his own personality's response to it. It's…

If anyone's still reading this far down and hasn't seen "Telethon", "Lawsuit" (the origin of the '[blank] Attorney at Law' joke that led to Harvey Birdman's show,) or the "lost episode" where Birdman himself was the show's original host, get on that shit toot sweet.

Christ on a hilltop, this was an amazing year for 80s action flicks. "Commando" alone is a cornerstone of the genre, and "To Live And Die In L.A." would still be a great movie if it featured no action at all.

I'm torn between making a "Sarah Paulson was a spy" comment vs tsking a left turn and saying something about Dashiell Hammett.

SNL did a sketch like this in the late 80s with John Larroquette (sp?) as Bob Villa remodeling a possessed home. Projects included spirit voices and bleeding walls:
http://snltranscripts.jt.or…

"Clerks" holds up as a 90s slice-of-life time capsule. As a 19-year-old when it was released, I can attest to its authenticity when it comes to bored young white guys who are either unaware of their inherent cultural advantages and responsibilities, or just too unmotivated to address them.

For a solid seven or eight years (until Katamari came out) there was no game more purely fun to play.

It can be a little bit of both. Maybe not hilarious, but certainly ridiculous. And the whole movie is surprisingly funny from time to time, scoring some great satirical laughs by contrasting the intense fights and chases with very human (and very silly) moments like the National Guard guys lining up for a group photo…