Miranda built his whole career between writer-performer roles: one in a wife-beater and one in a froux-froux Revolutionary ruffed collar. In reality he seems to favor the happy medium.
I remember associating the look of George Carlin, especially in his heyday, with LMM's signature outfit as well: single-color t-shirt…

A few years ago, I watched "Popeye" for laughs just before setting out to see on a week-long cruise, one of the few not connected by television or newspaper to the major news networks. When I got back to shore, Robin Williams had died.
I felt so guilty that the last thing I saw him in alive was THAT.

Maybe it's a poorly parsed lyric, but there's a comma changing the meaning. It's "I've never had to, knock on wood, but I know someone who has; It makes me wonder if I could." The song, which is based around the idea of looking at people who have had it much harder and wondering if you could cope with that, is from…

I think you may be conflating the 1910s with the "Gay Nineties" of 1890, but I think most of pop culture (and culture at large) conflates those as well. The distinction is easier to note in England, with the transformation from the Victorian era to the Edwardian era, but in America it was pretty much a three-decade…

Condon is, like Sam Mendes, one of those rare multi-genre prestige directors. He has a strong horror connection, but he is also probably the main driving force as a director and screenwriter behind the revival of the movie musical, having worked on both "Chicago" and "Dreamgirls."

To me, it felt like an extended homage to the Michael Myers "fast victim, slow pursuer" chases at the climax of most "Halloween" films. Someone should splice in the John Carpenter score and see how it feels.

One would think Essie Davis would be used to being pursued by a mysterious, shape-changing supernatural presence by now. If it's in a word, or it's in a look, you can't rid of the Faceless Men.

It'll have to be reconstituted. Even if you don't believe in the Republican Party's ideals, there needs to be a conservative force to tell the liberals when/if they're wrong. A devil's advocate party, even if they don't lose. But "not liberal" and "probably evil" don't need to be the synonyms they threatened to become…

Mighty Mighty Bosstones, much as I love them, are a little weird, because their fusion of hardcore punk and ska clicked really well on "The Impressions That I Get," but didn't click as well on any other song. They were all either ska songs with buzzsaw guitar and mass-shouted vocals, or hardcore songs with horns in…

It was an era when Smash Mouth was retro-kitsch, not regular kitsch. The era when Britney Spears was sexy without being "sexy BUT" anything. When Dragon Ball Z battles could take weeks to air in full, and the Tasmanian Devil was inexplicably associated with pro wrestling. Rap-metal and grunge-pop were big, movies were…

All I remember about Madigan Men was the Irish dad finding his Irish-American son in the bar. Son says, "Dad! How'd you know I was here?" Dad says, "Why, Jesus told me." Son replies, "Dad, the bartender's name is "Jesús."

At least Brave gave us the immensely quotable "eff ye hahd the chahnce t' cheinge ya feight…. WOOdjEH?"

The Office may or may not have had diminishing returns by the end, but I think a lot of people didn't care, because it had become that rare thing: a genuine hangout sitcom. These are characters we didn't necessarily want to know in real life, but would happily have spent more on-air time with.

You forgot the best kind of level: the ones where you get to play as Pikachu.

The vampire is played by Jane Krakowski in full "capped teeth fading society belle" archness mode, right? Because that's the only way I see the scenario going down.
Even in "Alfie" she manages to make a sex scene into high camp.

Uzo is black and has crazy eyes, but BOY can she sing.

Exception: Eeyore. If she owns more than one Eeyore thing, she just came of age in the 1990s, a different and exotic time.

I thought of this movie as a reverse Alfie- while Alfie was a rich playboy living a gigolo life, Nikki was Alfie minus the prestige and privilege.

The Harry Potter fandom has a reputation for social activism and civil rights advocacy, possibly related to the way social activism and civil rights advocacy are a primary concern of the Wizarding World. To say "he was a Gryffindor" indicates more than just that he was gay, or that he liked Harry Potter. It indicates…

Academia uses the term "the queer umbrella" for the diaspora of nonheteronormative, nonbinary gender and sexuality identities. The trouble is that the queer umbrella is almost absurdly inclusive- feminism is a queer act, as it disrupts the patriarchy and its assumptions of male and female gender roles and patterns of…