Oh my kid WILL be watching Neverending Story when he’s old enough. I have it on DVD, just waiting for that time. Nearby, Land Before Time, Dark Crystal, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters 1 and 2, Jurassic Park. Man, the list is longer, but I’ll stop for now. Suffice to say, I hope when he has friends over, they’ll want to…

I loved it. People were bitching that first week after ST3 was released that it takes you out of the moment and deflates the tension—or alternately that if those two characters hadn’t spent so much time singing it together that a certain someone wouldn’t have died.

I live about 15 minutes from Gwinnett Place Mall, and even when it was busy and bustling, it was... a shitty mall. All that neon in the food court was actually in the food court. Management seems to have thought it would have a certain kind of appeal, but it never did. There was little remodeling done over the years,…

But doesn’t stop me from wishing she’s been surviving - no, thriving - in the upside down all this time, and when she makes her surprise reappearance she’ll be a badass who saves the day.

There's product placement ... And there's that gross Coke ad they shoehorned in that went on much too long

Was ‘ranking on’ slang from the 80s? It was always ‘ragging on’ in any of the places I lived. (central and socal).

If you weren’t a queer teenager in 1985, you don’t know how plausible.

When people complain about Stranger Things being an easy nostalgia cash-in, I get it. For the most part, it’s too integral to the show’s identity not to be true. And you either have no interest in this, or you accept it and are in for the ride. Coming into the third season, I was feeling a bit of fatigue. For as large…

Alternate theory: the “American” being held captive could also be Dr. Brenner, who was confirmed to be alive in Season 2, though his whereabouts were never established. It would make sense that Brenner fled the country after the events of season 1 and somehow fell into the hands of the Russians, which would explain…

Steve’s latest fan-pleasing character trait is being the accepting best friend of a new lesbian character. As if he needed to be more popular than he already is.

I know it’s a 90s reference. Weird Al had a million songs in the 80s, but to pick the one that spoofs a song had a huge rebirth because of it’s a placement in a movie that hat had both Wynona Rider and Robin’s real life father was definitely a Reality Bites shout out.

I like Caleb McLaughlin a lot too, they just don’t give Lucas all that much to do. Like he was damn good in season 1, got kinda sidelined in S2 and now he’s just a bad boyfriend. They’re wasting that actor’s potential.

Nancy and Jonathan’s fight scene in the car was really well done on every level. Really tonally consistent character justification for everything they both said. Jonathan is, of course, correct that a family of Nancy’s economic status is privileged to not have to think about how much capitalism sucks until it sucks…

I was wondering whether Nancy’s “better to ask for forgiveness than permission” was an anachronism, so I looked it up. It is actually from 1986, and attributed to Grace Hopper (!) quoted in the magazine Chips Ahoy (!!)

The mall fun montage with Max and Eleven was I think an homage to the great sequence from 1984's Night of the Comet with sisters Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney going on a shopping spree at the abandoned, post-apocalyptic mall, before being interrupted by armed, marauding goons (who they fight off).

When Robin comes back with the blueprints her line seems to be almost a direct lift from Sneakers. (1992) Here are the original lines from the movie.

Season 3 makes a very strong case for a spin off entirely about Steve, Robin and Dustin teaming up to solve international mysteries. The chemistry between them is incredible.

The Shining is a masterpiece of a movie, however it is a terrible adaptation of Stephen King’s novel

I enjoyed the movie far more than you did, and felt it deserved a solid B. Until the very stupid voice-overed, overwrought, overworked-point end, which put it squarely in D territory.

With this much 4th wall breaking, I am surprised Deadpool doesn’t show up in the third act.