It would be nice if there were some kind of software resource that could offer relief. Especially one that could, as it were, “impede” or “obstruct” certain interloping pieces of audiovisual media.

If you’re starting from the premise that corporate media executive are shamelessly craven and money-grubbing, you could go either way with your analysis. Given the widespread adherence to the nostalgia-mining franchise model, it’s likely they started by spinning off a YA series from the most popular character of a clas…

I don’t think there’s a way to describe the premise without it sounding like something on the CW. And, given the intended core audience as reflected in the cast, it actually sort of is. But it’s so consistently smart and authentic, it easily competes with anything else in the world of “Peak TV” comedy.

I think everyone’s overreacting to the depiction of white, male, middle-class rage in deliberately provocative satires like Fight Club. Sure, the theme of disaffected normies bonding over their shared alienation in a postindustrial capitalist society bereft of meaning may look dangerously suggestive, especially in…

Hopefully this inspires Tim Schafer to finally make a sequel to Full Throttle.

I loved those games when I was a kid. I remember the first Freddi Fish game was a pretty creative and challenging noir-type mystery.

Do they use the word “noble”? If so, then maybe what they mean is that he’s “noble” in the sense of a “noble savage” (with the latter trope reapplied to the “cowboy” stock characters). And if that, then your parents might be onto some Warhol-esque layer of irony hidden to the coastal urbanites.

You know, I saw the trailer where Kevin Hart is doing his usual schtick, then is flummoxed while standing in front of a whackily naked Mark Wahlberg, and then violently hurls a mountain-lion cub, and I was sure this was a winner.

Every once in a while, I read a comment about a certain kind of mediocre movie, the type you start watching simply because it’s on and it’s comfortingly bland. Sometimes there’s mention of needing “background noise” for doing other stuff. I know this is all very common, but I’m always struck by how far away this…

“60 dudes” is really stretching the definition of the word “squad.” That’s more like a platoon.

“People who are so preoccupied with whether or not they could do something that they never stopped to think about whether they should do something are a cliché at this point, but only because really need to start spending more time thinking about whether or not they should do something.”

Given that Vader means father in German, dad jokes are fitting.

That doesn’t make it logical to describe the character as “a black cowboy” to readers who lack the context. Even with the context, it’s still a weird choice. “Black Cowboy” is apparently a joking nickname. It doesn’t translate to being a natural-sounding descriptor, one that takes an indefinite article, no less. This…

“He will be, probably, close to 80 years old at that point, and you know, he’s the one who’s had his touch on the whole thing.”

Winning an open, large-scale engagement, particularly one reaching from a planet’s surface to beyond the atmosphere, is not the only interesting way of making progress against an enemy, although it could conceivably count as the first “victory.” That would make sense in the context of the opening crawl, which…

“The nominees for the documentary category include a historical examination of the human vagina in art and culture. Does the female anatomy make this audience uncomfortable? The word itself makes some men squirm: ‘Vagina.’ Oh, what am I talking about? This is Italy.”

Tim Allen has the perfect voice for a cartoon character (as in, a traditionally ‘cartoonish’ cartoon character) that satirizes the Flash Gordon archetype, that of a retro-futuristic avatar of ‘rugged American pioneer’ masculinity for the Space Age, but it’s not the voice of a realistically depicted man in his twenties…

That’s amusing since she usually has so many more words! You see, because her lyrics are so voluble.

You said “do it.”

And then bludgeon yourself over the head with it a few times.