I agree about the grading thing. One of the moves Ebert did was grade each movie on what it set out to accomplish vs. what it managed to accomplish. So he wouldn’t give a silly kid’s movie an easier shot at a better review vs. something from an auteur. He would use the same process for each, even if one seemed a lot…

hah he also only has two outfits: hockey jersey and jorts or blazer with t-shirt and backwards ballcap. I mean, they work for him, but can’t one of his family buy him a new set of clothes now and then?

That and “Punch Drunk Love” are like the 2 things in Sandler’s entire career that involve him actually acting, instead of doing an extended SNL bit for 2 hours, so I wouldn’t be so quick to praise him for doing stuff.

The part about Smith casting himself and his real life distributor as the ultimate villains in this seems kinda clever. The rest, just kind of unwatchable nonsense that tries to seem meta rather than coherent. Though FWIW I think as far as Hollywood kids go, his daughter, Harley Quinn Smith, is going to be successful…

I’d say you’re right for the most part with “nobody over 25 has any business dating a 21-year old” but in this case it seems like they made a pretty solid connection. So they might be the rare exception to that rule. I agree with the rest of your advice about letting the ex live his life since he hasn’t tried to…

Seems a bit like that other Ryan Reynolds dark comedy where he can hear imaginary voices, aptly titled “The Voices”. Anyway, it was really quite a good movie so I hope this one is just as good.

I like how Aku goes full “Doctor Doom” and refers to himself in the third person. Especially when talking about his domain. Aku is more than an entity, Aku is a way of life.

Oh hell yeah. Aku was a very funny character. Also, pretty well rounded. he could go from terrifying and cruel to petty and petulant to world weary and almost friendly with Jack because they’re the only ones who “understand” one another. The one where Aku is upset cause the kids like Jack more so he tells some…

Phil Lamarr is doing the sad walk right now.

should be on demand, if you have that.

True, but a decent amount of the humor involved dialogue. Phil Lamarr really nailed it with the fish out of water inquisitiveness and unfailing politeness of Jack when he spoke. I enjoyed the first episode of Primal even though the voice acting was largely just screams of rage and tears and roars. Will be interesting…

part of me thinks you are right but the rest wants to see what they could have dreamed up in an alternate world where Korgoth got a season order.

Are you sure people and dinosaurs didn’t run around together? You could go back, back to the past (Samurai Jack) to check up on it.

(politely) Fight forever!

McGruder film you say? So are they making a Boondocks movie to go along with the new series?

He looks like Deadshot from the “Secret Six” comics.

His new nickname should be Minshew-noku Driver. Get it, cause he’s good at driving down the field and it has his name and sounds like michinoku driver. Maybe he can launch some (blue thunder) bombs down the field!

Snoop Dogg did the same thing with the “Monk” theme song so I’m a little bit less surprised. Then again, Randy Newman and Nick Cave are kind of disparate artists to say the least. So, good for Snoop stretching his boundaries in covering theme songs.

It was a neat concept with mixed results. But there were some genuine surprises in there. Always a bit of a head turner when a band you actually like starts out covering “Little Boxes” I remember the of Montreal one was probably my favorite/largest surprise.

I remember when Darkseid did the eyebeams of death thing and the bat family was all listening to this video will that Bruce made and the last thing he said was “Thank You, Dad” to Alfred. *sob.