BTW, have you seen Absentia, Flanagan’s 2011 film? The acting is kind of amateurish, but it has a delightfully disturbing twist.

It’s sibling syndrome. If the older brother is a pragmatist, the younger has to wallow in psychological ambiguity. Not that I’m complaining.

My personal subtitle for this article is: “Lamplighter Discovers the Joys of the Dismiss Button.”

I’d say start with the novella, The Turn of the Screw, first. Like Jackson’s novel, it deserves a read:)

I hope you thoroughly enjoy dismissing a hundred monographs by a hundred feral dipshits. You are doing the lord’s work. Cthulhu be praised.

This is great. Mike Flanagan has proved himself as an inventive but low-key craftsman who seems to care more about rigorously managing point-of-view than he does about flashy twists and scares.

My only hope is a little more focus on the scares this go round?

May I highly recommend everybody watch the film masterpiece The Innocents — based on The Turn of the Screw — before the new Haunted drops?

Does this mean that his body is no longer ready?

This decision does not make me want to watch the show, but it makes complete sense. Catherine Hardewicke cracked the CW’s aesthetic back when the network still had its old name and a singing frog. Thirteen is not a great film, but it does a pretty slick job of feinting toward moralism just enough to make its…

I’m disappointed to see Jason Reitman fall into this trap. His retraction is heartening but also (as Beth points out) too late to avoid another tedious online plague. Thank You For Smoking and Young Adult are both brilliant comedies, but even so this re-reboot just makes me want to sigh.

But let’s not forget the most important question: is Edward Norton supposed to look like James Cameron with that hair? Because for a moment, before he took off the anima goggles, I thought it was a cameo.

I am waiting for the drinking game to become an official series spin-off: “Beer the Walking Dead.”

And they’re still less qualified to talk about this than linguistics majors. Hell, they’re less qualified than linguistics minors.

While the asian markets have grown since the release of the first Avatar, the 3-D hype that Avatar rode to record breaking success in the US has come and gone years ago. Is there really a market for not one, but 4 sequels to a movie that most people now agree is “meh” at best?

...the half of Outkast that no one wants to see...

He was a professor of logic who hated, hated, hated split infinitives, to the point that the second split infinitive would drop your paper grade to an automatic F.

I love that you understand Cardi the same way that I do, as a subversive smarty pants. Long live Cardi!

There’s also the fact that people who object to it don’t know English as well as they think they do.

I don’t know why “I am dumb at” would be wrong. It’s obviously vernacular, as opposed to literary English, but it seems as correct as the other constructions.