I get the impression sometimes that what a site like this wanted was a full expose and perhaps mea culpa on his addiction, divorce, and rehab and that anything less (like say, a comedy special) is obfuscating the truth.

I thought it was a great special and bracingly self-critical without straying from its overall…

I generally don’t see the point of criticizing criticism, but “thing wasn’t what I personally expected it to be” isn’t a critique so much as a kneejerk reaction. It’s something a good critic accepts and interrogates before subsequently writing something more thoughtful. “Why were my expectations so misaligned?” “Did…

Yeah, Netflix kinda ruined the market here by putting out mid-tier action films starring A-listers every few years, Ryan Gosling among them.

Don’t wait. Forget the technical visual and aural advantages of a theater, The Fall Guy is a movie that needs audience vibes to shine. It’s funny and the practical effects are awe-inspiring and something chemical happens when you're with a large group of other people experiencing joy and wonder.

Although this item isn’t cursed (just evil microchips), I just want a shout out to 1983's “The Lift” for its AMAZING tag line: “Take the Stairs, Take the Stairs. For God’s Sake, Take the Stairs!!!”

Great list.

Yeah but then you’d be ahead of like 99% of the population in that you’d understand the rules to Parcheesi. Worth it.

Gotta admit- I fucking hate slideshows, but I loved this one. :) I disagree with your placement of the Ouija board in the top ten at all; since those are things that we grow up messing with it stands to reason your guard might be lowered. I might mess with a Ouija board. But a disembodied corpse hand that seems to…

That’s great if you score a pharaoh who knows a game that inexplicably rules your world and every aspect of it. I’m not sure I’m willing to risk getting my skin flayed off erotically by fetish demons if the alternative is to merge with Parchee-Ra, Master of Parcheesi

They do this:

What’s going to happen when Jim Gaffigan and Andy Richter finally meet in the middle after a long decade of slowly morphing into each other?

Weird that the strategy is to recreate buildings from animated movies instead of just renting actual buildings from live-action movies. I mean, I’m sure they’re already doing that, but still.

Most of Canadian land is still unceded, or under (mostly violated) treaties. That’s our original sin, and we’re working our way through it, as I’m sure you know (TRC, treaty-based lawsuits, etc...)

My take on it is that the oppressed focus on vocabulary and nomenclature because it’s relatively easy to control, and they have very little control over much more critical aspects of what makes them oppressed.

I got a few comments about being able to cut my mom out of my life. I’m combining my replies in this post, since it all boils down to this:

I get what you’re saying. I’m just using the Canadian formulation, which is likely irrelevant to you, but of critical importance where I live.

“JK Rowling isn’t behind on this issue, she’s ahead.”

These people literally cannot stop themselves.

I didn’t think the movie was trying to make anyone a hero or a villain. Tracy and Broderick’s characters are antagonistic toward one another, but they’re ultimately both protagonists in the story the movie is telling. In the sense of “the moral of the story,” I guess you can point to the comeuppance Broderick’s…

In the legal sense, yes. But it is clear that we are supposed to identify and sympathize with Broderick’s character and find Tracy insufferable. Although the sequel novel (not filmed) corrects some of this and makes her more human.