I saw one commercial for that, then forgot all about it, then I remembered one day, and searched the film out.

Do teen comedies actually appeal to teens, or do they appeal to both bookends of adolescence, the pre-teen wanting to emulate older kids, and the young adult nostalgically considering the recent past?

There was only one other person in the theater when I went to see it today, and it was an old woman (60's maybe?).

It…

The first three seasons were great, then it slowly declined in quality as it had to advance itself by adding more characters, and now it’s largely stale, the jokes aren’t as funny, and the cast is too old to be doing all the twentysomethings on a couch shtick.

Whereas it used to be “appointment TV” and a highlight of…

Except I didn’t listen to any of those bands in the 90's. When I think of 90's music, I think primarily of women: McLachlan, Apple, Amos, and Crow, just to start.  And they are still playing on my phone, I don’t think I’ve even heard a full length song by Swift, Perry, Beyonce, Minaj, or Cardi.

I don’t know. Were the Amazons wearing less in JL than WW? My attention was blanked out by the boring CGI-ness of it all, that I didn’t even notice.

All of this silly comic book nonsense: on the one hand, why should Amazons be wearing skimpy clothing, but on the other hand, maybe they had a heightened durability in…

I didn’t like Age of Ultron, but I agree those “chill party” scenes were entertaining. Ultron never felt like an ominous threat, and I think it may have in part been due to the cold yet still human Spader voicing him like a resentful adult child when my first exposure to Ultron was the Dalek-like voice in the Earth’s…

I know someone who used to work in porn, and she explains there are varied standards depending on who you work for, but I’m not making a moral objection to either the nudity or the sex scenes per se, but rather what I see as the crude motivation to include them when it isn’t essential to the storytelling, a mentality…

As I recall, the last episode of the show literally was about some guy who seemed to befriend Frankie and then was grossly inappropriate, which then makes inappropriate workplace standards...ironic?

Being the AV Club, there would be such delight if these were evangelicals fornicating or some hypocrisy like that, but…

So the show that is supposed to be “woke” about these kind of issues isn’t very woke in practice? Do you think maybe they simply could avoid nudity altogether by just not having the sex scenes? But then they wouldn’t have that “we’re a saucy cable show!” cache and they might have to fill the space with more subtlety.

Of all these films, I’ve only seen three- Death Wish, Sicario 2, Mile 22: the first two were awful, Mile 22 I found to be tolerable - and the rest I haven’t even heard of, and I don’t expect I’ll ever make the effort to see any of them, but I am currently watching the VOD release “Hospitality” with Emmanuelle Chriqui,…

I’m going to venture the opinion that the headline has to do with Tarantino starting to age like David Carradine.

A 2.35 movie shown at 1.85 or 1.78 is not such a big deal, but I’m watching The Jeffersons on Starz right now, stretched out from 4:3 to 1.78 and I want to slap someone.  Also, it’s a problem with portable DVD players too.  Buy the wrong brand, and you’ll find it won’t adjust the widescreen to the proper square, no…

Martyrs is a really good film, but High Tension’s ending is not sophisticated, I think it was a cheap dead-end cop-out invented by Luc Besson to make the story more scandalous or perhaps obscure a potential problem with the unintentional Koontz rip-off.

Others titles in the oeuvre I’ve seen but hate: Irreversible,…

We never had enough money to afford takeout pizza (my mom made mini pizzas, and very good ones, and still does, with English muffins, pasta sauce, lunch meat, shredded/sliced cheese, and whatever vegetables are on hand) but being from Texas I do remember Grandy’s, and the nickel Whataburger mugs, of which I think I…

Panos is only a few years older than me, and what a few years difference makes. My “mythical imagination” of 80's horror was due to descriptions in the pages of Lynn Minton’s “Movie Guide for Puzzled Parents” of Friday the 13th and The Omen movies, of Roger Ebert talking about Nightmare on Elm Street and I Spit on…

Unless you subscribe to a yearly plan, there is a “one-off” initiation fee for each plan. Understandable, but I am willing to pay a little less for Movie Pass and put up with the inconvenience of limited availability as long as the film is not completed blacked out, as long as there is the opportunity to see it at…

The draw of the show for me is not the “Iron Fist” premise (which just reminds me of Berry Gordon’s The Last Dragon) but rather it’s the “Danny Rand and Colleen Wing Show”, they make such a cute couple, and I have a bit of a crush on Henwick, it could be a sitcom in another context, instead of “Hart of Dixie”, it…

I first saw this film on HBO sometime in January of 1997, when I was 20 years old. I immediately recognized the correlations to The Breakfast Club, and I felt it captured a particular spirit of the 90's, something I could feel and recognize in the Hastings store which I frequented at the time (and as I was not in…

The structure of the stories, with their intended audience being kids (I would think), requires there has to be a stand-off of some sort in each episode, so there is no time for a careful examination of what would really happen if this were a real life courtroom, or even a David E. Kelly one. So the resolution of the…

I still have boxes and boxes of cassettes that I’m going to have to go through sooner or later to see if the equivalent music is available on CD or digital, and then make my notes, keep what’s irreplaceable, and donate all the rest to the local thrift shop where I know old people will frequent.