Stanley Tucci appreciation story: As a kid, I was terrified of him in The Pelican Brief because his character sat and waited in his target's home for the right time to strike. Every time I was by myself after seeing the film I would open all the closet and bedroom doors to check for assassins.

Clearly, she fights the monster for one episode and the other seven are orchestral scored views of the Upside Down.

Make a whole season around Barb in the Upside Down and I'll get into the whole Barb thing. Until then it's less than 20 minutes in an 8 episode show.

I don't have strong feelings about Barb and I'm confused about why it's a thing people have strong feelings about.

Corduroy was one of my favorite books as a child. I recently bought it/read it again before giving it as a baby shower gift and was happy to find that it's one of the few childhood things I'm able to love just as much as an adult.

E. T. scared the crap out of me as a child but I still think about the mom and how she was pulling it together for her family despite her pain over her ex-husband's abandonment of the family.

The Quiet Man
When I was a kid I loved this movie because Maureen O'Hara was tough and didn't let anyone tell her what to do. Now, as an adult when I watch the film I realize how important her side of the story is. She gets accused of being a money grubber or a gold digger but she's owed that money as her inheritance.…

I always love how instantly Fred accepts Kris as Santa Claus. No hesitation, just "Ok, he's Santa and Santa and I are now friends."

Watched this recently and bawled like a baby. The sister relationship, the single mother who relies on the patience of her teammates to help her through taking her son on the road, the scene when Betty finds out her husband has died, and even Madonna's character showing her fear of going back to Taxi Dancing for a…

Ok, little historical context here: Nikita Khrushchev promoted corn after his visit to America. He basically staked his whole reputation on it and it failed big time. Known as the Corn Campaign, the government devoted large portions of land to growing corn as a feeder crop for livestock but didn't adopt any of the…

Sure, it's a song but if you're debating the song you debate it in context of the song. We could debate Wichita Lineman with the same depth we are debating this song but this is the song being discussed. Rhea Butcher has argued that the song is sexist. Not everyone sees it as sexist but some of us see how it could be…

Me in 1996:
Hey, Arnold
Star Trek: First Contact
Eddie (Whoopi Goldberg was a big deal for me as a kid.)

Independence Day is really the only late-90's Armageddon blockbuster worth watching today. The cast was good, the aliens were suitably frightening, and how the aliens were defeated was fun.

That's a fair point. I just assumed that line was millenial self-pity (saying that as an early millenial) about the fact that he's not getting what he wants. I might dislike this guy to the point of being biased against him lol.

Sure, but the complaint in the song is not how the dismissal was made, it's that the boyfriend was refused and he is unhappy about being turned down.

Weirdly what bothers me most about this song is that no one is being rude. A father refusing to grant permission (so far as that goes anyways) to the daughter's boyfriend is not rude, it's either mean or smart. Rude is when you chew food with your mouth open or interrupt conversations to hear yourself talk.

I think the "own" part is implied based on the fact that the daughter/girlfriend in question isn't part of this conversation. There's nothing to say that the daughter would marry the boyfriend anyways and there's nothing to say that she would side with her father. It's the fact that both the father and boyfriend are…

L. A. has hosted during the Great Depression (1932) and created the most financially successful Olympics of the modern era (1984). The city clearly has event planning down.

Tina Fey's "I've got-ta go! I've got-ta go!" is my favorite part of the actual song, but that the whole episode slowly led to that musical moment was brilliant.

I love musicals but actively dislike Hello, Dolly, unless I'm hearing the songs in Wall-E.