“...only further emphasized their disconnect from reality, Bernie never panders.”

Never gets old. 

“It’s a weird take, but he seems like a weird guy, so it checks out.”

I can kind of see both sides of this issue. On one hand I liked “Inglorious Basterds” and wasn’t offended. On the other hand... On another message board someone made a good point which, to paraphrase, is that it’s inaccurate to depict all perpetrators of the Final Solution as mustache-twirling sadists. Of course that…

Yeah but the question is who’s responsible for the hoax. Is it the Lutzes, Ronald DeFeo’s lawyer, horror novelist Jay Anson, the makers of the original movie? It’s layered. George Lutz forever swore something happened at the house, but said the way it was represented in the book was not what happened, and that the…

Yeah, gonna name-drop: I got to interview him some 15 years ago. Good guy (although I think a little grumpy because he had a summer cold). He said how he just started tooling around with writing a novel for an hour each night after he’d come from his advertising job, eat dinner with his family and put his kids to…

Nice. I just got done listening to a podcast about the events that led to the “Amityville Horror” movies. Would make a great episode.

The physical/mental deterioration of the current president is under-reported, and I find it weird that it’s so ignored by the media given that we can see it happening in real time. You literally have to go back less than 48 hours to the Colorado rally, but to me the most striking example was that press conference last…

Never gets old. 

There’s someone in my life who has this weird habit that I describe thusly: Say someone tells you a story or relays some information to you where they say about 10 things, like that there are 10 bullet points to the story. Some of us might absorb all 10 things in measure, meaning giving them each 10 percent…

Man, “Triumph of the Spirit” has really been erased from existence. 

Donald Trump encouraged people to physically assault voters, and he’s now president, so...

“The idea that Sanders alone has a problem with trolls and needs to denounce them is ‘a bullshit corporate media narrative.’”

Just the other day I saw the Simpsons episode where Bart skips school and is at an auction for a million-dollar painting. When he wins the auction, he laughs and runs out of the room. The auctioneer goes to the next highest bid, a man in a suit, who also laughs and runs out of the room. The exasperated auctioneer asks…

If they have an extended scene of John Turturro sitting down on a bed, and just quietly weeping, I’m in! 

Well-written piece. Yes, the original is lightning-in-a-bottle, and I can’t think of any horror film that benefitted less from sequels, remakes, reboots, origin stories, et al than 1974's “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” I’ll recognize the second one in 1986, because it was from Tobe Hooper and was a pretty interesting…

Lol, yes I guess “The Brood” should be included in discussions about divorce movies. It’s been 20+ years since I’ve seen that, but you probably could write a thinkpiece about how it’s a metaphor for men thinking their now-ex-wives have been overtaken by some weird force making them behave irrationally. 

From listening to the podcast and what I remember of the movie, after the prank with the big black guy, later at the diner or whatever the kid’s dad beats him in public for “turning tail ass from a (n-word).” After the “kite” thing the Jewish kid fights the other kid and wins. The next day at school the kid has…

Hell there’s a good amount of racism in that movie even separate from the anti-Semitism. That’s the thing about comparing it to “American Pie.” I don’t recall any of the crew in that movie gleefully referring to black people as n-words. 

I literally listened to a podcast about “Porky’s” this afternoon. The thing people forget about “Porky’s” is the surprisingly serious subplots about anti-Semitism and child abuse.