In 1998, Warner Brothers held their 75th anniversary film festival at the Fine Arts theater here in Chicago: 7 days full of Warner films, each day a different decade. I bought a pass and managed to see 3-5 movies per day. It was one of the best weeks of my life, and it contained the single greatest moviegoing…

You have every right to guard your private life and defend your own decisions as there’s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that’ll be a home run. And so that’ll make it a 4-0 ballgame. I don’t know if you'll be respected ever again.

It reminds me of the scene in “Looper” where the characters practically turned to the audience and told us not to worry about the time travel paradoxes. Sometimes you just gotta buy into a story’s conceit. Toys are alive, but they have weird rules? OK. Time travel exists? OK. The world ia frozen, but a train is…

From what I remember, The Sopranos was set to end after season 4, and you can really see David Chase gearing up for it as season 3 concluded (my friends and I joked that watching that season’s finale was like watching someone slowly load a gun; every scene was another bullet in the clip.)

What’s the going rate for copy/pasting a press release and adding one or two descriptive sentences?

Better.

Also typical of Fincher is its exceptionally evocative opening credit sequence. 

Disney without kids is - no exaggeration - an entirely different experience. It’s not even the same place.

ShockG/DU have no equal, no peers, but I always felt his superb combination of talent, musical ability, and exuberant goofiness had a lot in common with the B-52s. Both groups had their own offbeat sounds and looks, and (most importantly) they didn’t do it in an effort to stand out in a crowd. They did it because…

I loved so much of this movie until the last 20 minutes or so, when the film’s stressful-yet-still-sorta-genial approach to dealing with mental illness in everyday life was summarily chucked out the window in favor of embracing full-on ridiculous rom-com tropes like “love conquers all (and is certainly more important…

I’d never heard that “Same Gang” song before, and G absolutely kills it with sharp lyrics and that wicked shift in beat (I wonder how hard he had to fight to be the one guy who got to switch it up?) Kinda surprisingly, the song as a whole isn’t bad either. No one else is really great, but everyone brings it. It’s also…

I’ll put “I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom” up against anything Bob Dylan ever wrote.

Man, I loved that shit. It's so corny, but every piece of it is sincere. 

As soon as Breihan mentioned "Alice in Wonderland," my heart sank as I feared it might've been the #1 movie of 2010. Thank god it was not. Now let's never speak of it again. 

Whatever else it did (or didn’t,) Avatar gave us “Flight of Passage” at Disney World, one of the very few (arguably the only) amusement park rides that manages to integrate motion and video screens for an immersive effect. The lines for it are always enormous, and they’re worth it.

It’s all relative, of course. I went back and re-read the first 60+ issues a few years ago, and while they’re hardly Grant Morrison or Chris Claremont, each issue delivers a fun adventure with surprisingly strong characterization and a puzzling amount of military/technology trivia.

All of that stuff is true, but at the same time, it's worth noting that those old GI Joe comics are excellent examples of "good things coming from bad sources." Maybe - and I'm not optimistic, but you gotta dream - they'll find some inspiration from those stories. 

Piece of shit

I haven’t seen it since its release either, but I remember chuckling at a moment when the character - in prayer - thanks the Lord for inspiring her to try anal in order to preserve her virginity. 

In one of her one-off works, “Mitch & Amy,” one of the characters learns to ignore the class bully’s insistence on throwing acorns (or something) at him while they walked to school. Eventually the bully stops because he can’t get a reaction out of the other kid. It’s played off as a minor victory until later on when…