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Remember, this isn't a blatant attempt at a cash grab by a studio desperate to start up one of those "cinematic universes" from their IP, having failed with attempts like their Amazing Spiderman - the best they've been able to salvage from that is limping into a deal with Disney to rent out Spiderman like a childrens…

The former champion of pre-chewed snark returns, however the patina of snark and "stare at the camera and make a funny face after playing a clip of a talking head" has corroded away, leaving only this behind. I do think his new "hungry ghost" look is pretty dope, though.

From a visual standpoint, the goatish, leering devil from Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages gets a vote from me. Not for the definitive devil in cinema, but hey, he should be acknowledged.

Also, the sketch where Lovitz' Satan was testifying before a senate committee about the album he released contains any subliminal messages, with Dana Carvey as his minion, Frank Zappa and Hartman as Ozzy Osbourne.

It must include his rousing speech to his people after they're told they must withdraw:

They'll be the annoying laserdisc enthusiasts of their time - that is to say there were fans of the laserdiscs and a small, noisy bunch of laserdisc owners who, especially in the late 1990s/very early naughts took some measure of pride in owning an LD machine/collection, especially with their crowing about how it was…

It certainly was a…comic. That had art and writing.

This is the one season where SNL could have been taken out back and given the Old Yeller treatment and frankly who would have missed it.

Could it be, perhaps instead, there's a class of people out there who can't just enjoy something and need to come up with ridiculous theories or overly elaborate backstories for every little detail? No, I guess not.

Time is important, and I am a clock.

I think coulrophobia as a "adult fear of clowns" has been greatly exaggerated - perhaps after scary clowns like "It" and the idea of John Wayne Gacy dressing up as a clown and other such things filtered into the public consciousness via pop culture, The word to consider is "phobia", which is a mental disorder, not…

Everyone else can continue looking down on Zach Braff. I'm doing that right now.

Makes me think of an old shopping center in a smaller city in the orbit of the burg I lived in some time ago, once a lively hub for a couple of decades, but by the time I was driving past it on the way to elsewhere, there was a mostly empty conglomeration of faux-red brick store fronts with a shared muddy brown roof,…

Not that long ago I was invited to a younger cousin's birthday party and it was pretty much what I expected, as it was being held not at a Chuck E. Cheese or similar franchise but one of those somewhat more low-rent places, that usually have a name like The Family Fun Zune or Pizza Party Planet. It was the closest…

Prepare for the Fursecution

the line "Director Rawson Marshall Thurber… whose style seems to consist of saying “more” and “cut,” really sums up not only Thurber, but all of these directors who've been cranking out these lame comedies and such lately, which are filmed like a rather lacklusterly directed TV show and enhance just how bland and…

I see a sequel that not only reunites The Rock and Hart as a comedy duo, but brings Will Ferrell together with Hart again for Central Intelligence: Bob Stone and the Two Loud Guys

When I first heard about this movie, I couldn't help but think about a short story by Adam Corbin Fusco that appeared in one of the "Borderlands" horror anthologies, N0072-JK1, a story written as a clinically detached research paper into the human "tickle" response, or a Study of Synaptic Response of the Organism to…

Which made it all the more satisfying when in Wanted: Dead or Alive he ended up with a grenade jammed into his mouth.