That Manti Te'o story is still just as bizarre now as it was three years ago. I distinctly remember reading it for the first time, getting to the end, and reading it again because I just couldn't believe it was real. Deadspin's not what it used to be but I'll always have fond memories of that place; here's hoping they…

Goddamn, first Stuart Scott and now Saunders? I can't imagine how Hannah Storm keeps doing these.

Yeah, but that's why they're so good. Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow are two of the best action flicks of the 21st century because there's space for character building and tone between set pieces. There's something to be said for directors knowing they do well and what they don't, and sticking to the former– I…

Also Quidditch as described makes zero sense from a strategy/game theory perspective. Imagine if basketball awarded 50 points for full-court shots with tennis balls– would people bother shooting on the regular hoop? Of course not.

Love the original trilogy but the more I think about this movie the less I like it. It reuses set pieces to lesser effect, the plot tries hard to be relevant but doesn't really make any sense, and Tommy Lee Jones is a pretty meh villain. I also appreciate what The Bourne Legacy was trying to do more now after seeing…

Keeping a flat-out sprint for 800+ yards at altitude is upper-level Olympian type stuff. I thought it was a pretty effective retcon/explanation, especially since the physical enhancement stuff in Legacy is a lot subtler than Captain America or something like that.

No, the physical enhancements are actually referenced in the first movie: Bourne tells Marie that "at this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking." Legacy deserves a little credit for trying to explore new elements of the Bourne world, but it's still not that great a movie.

I honestly believe the original movies are the best trilogy of the 21st century. Reviews are saying it's solid but not spectacular, which is still plenty good enough for me to see it in theaters.

Aw, I thought this was about Charlie Day at first and now I really want a movie with King Arthur as played by Charlie Kelly.

Juvie's still absolutely a household name in the south, 400 Degreez is untouchable for the Mannie Fresh production alone, and the Girbaud Jeans line is even funnier and more cutting in 2016 than it was in 1998.

Yeah, it's definitely a perceptive look at how people try to find a place in a postcolonial world. He doesn't ever extend this thoughtful consideration to Africans, though– there's so many passages talking about them in almost-primal terms that it's easy to see why some critics call Naipaul a neocolonialist. I…

I respect Naipaul's writing ability, but A Bend In the River was just too pessimistic and borderline contemptuous at times for me. I have zero interest in ever reading him anytime soon.

Red Dead Redemption was great for a lot of reasons, not least of which being that you could hold a button to auto-match NPC speed when you were riding somewhere. Such a tiny thing that made life so much easier.

I said it before when talking about Straight Outta Compton, but it's nigh impossible for a music biopic to present a compelling, nuanced story AND get artist authorization to use music. All the recent great music biopics (Walk the Line, Walk Hard, Dreamgirls, I'm Not There) either didn't need to get estate permission…

Myers' mortified discomfort as Kanye goes off-script is just sublime, and that double-take/gasp thing he does right before they cut away is the pinnacle of 21st century comedy.

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I'm young enough that I've never known Limp Bizkit as anything but a pop-culture joke, and the thought that people used to unironically like this band just amazes me. Like, they released an album called Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water that sold 6 million copies! 6 million! If nu-metal ever stages a…

I mean, depending on who his ghostwriter of the moment is, his flows can actually be pretty solid. A fun thing to do is go back through Dre's career and listen to his flow change with every project he puts out– it takes like 3 songs to realize that whoever he's featured with writes his verse.

Weeds ended when Nancy leaves Agrestic. Also, Heat ends with De Niro's character heading to the airport, where he escapes with his girlfriend and lives out the rest of his life on some tropical island somewhere.

Yeah, can't believe they let Riley Cooper stay on the team.