Great article, and I loved the show, but I have to say that I TRULY love that still of Eric in the mirror room. I definitely watched most of this show at like 70% engagement and between that imagery and the costuming in the other stills here, I should probably go back and pay more attention the second time around. 

According to this interview, it’s a semi-ironic nickname he’s occasionally adopted. It is in the thumbnail of his personal website. As to what it means, I’m as lost as you. The sinister Frank Miller? The creative-brained Frank Miller? The bad-with-scissors Frank Miller? It’s anybody’s guess. 

??? how did I not know that the Hill House dad was the Jack Torrance actor in Doctor Sleep? I just looked at a side-by-side and it was hard to see the resemblance even then.

There were also super heavily promoted “Fan Previews” Tuesday-Wednesday; if those were somehow considered presale tickets and rolled in with the Thursday returns, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out it was #2 for that span. I’ve learned that the runs on most non-Western movies are super limited, so I pretty much see…

Finding out this movie isn’t good is both extremely disappointing and exactly what I expected. Goggins and Whitford are two actors who can convince me to watch almost anything but I think I’ll have to pass on this one. 

Yeah, whenever somebody says “it’s not worth the hassle to (do something that takes 5-10 seconds)“, they’re not being honest about their motivations. Maybe they keep the photos as trophies or to reminisce or whatever, but OP should probably re-examine their reason for not deleting the photos. 

Yeah, no question that the visuals/thematic imagery stand up upon rewatch, but I do see Midsommar detractors point out that the final act starts to feel perfunctory; even by genre standards, it sort of feels like the characters recognize that they’re stuck in a horror movie and become caricatures of themselves as…

Wow, really surprised to not see Midsommar on this list. Is it Hereditary hangover? I thought the visuals and Pugh’s performance were really something else and the AV Club review was very positive; part of it might be that the plot itself doesn’t really reward repeat viewings, but I still think about some of the…

Aww, no wide release for this movie this year?

Man, reading this article I’m struck by how many of these movies I didn’t hear a word about, despite being fond of the actors and the fact that they are being remembered fairly fondly in the article.

Well, she only mentions TFA here, and she specifically refers to the fact that Rey is framed as the main protagonist and gets the archetypal“weapon chooses you” moment... that Endgame scene was embarrassing because it ground the fight to a halt (you know, the fight where all the female heroes were contributing without…

Even you can’t seem to remember the lead character from Rogue One’s name... that doesn’t exactly instill confidence that he was a memorable character. (and I remember almost literally nothing about him, having watched each new star wars movie once. He was... in the rebellion?)

Hey, whatever happened to the PBR White Whiskey that they filed a trademark on last spring? It was exactly on brand for my kind of degeneracy, but I haven’t heard a thing about it since. I’m all about brands I like branching out on a limited basis. 

It’s definitely one of those movies; I’m sure if I wasn’t a highschooler in 2009 I wouldn’t still have such fondness for it. I’m glad to see that both of the male leads managed to secure some stable TV work, and I’ll never get tired of the fact that the douchey med student villain actually went on to be an on-and-off…

Great read! I have loved Will Gluck since Fired Up so I took sides on this showdown early and never saw No Strings Attached; I remember that the trailers did make it very evident that the chemistry wasn’t nearly as good as its competitor.

Another underappreciated element of FWB to me is that it pushes past the…

I was 17! I’m just bad at math, so I could only skip the one grade. 

I graduated high school in 2011, so I was the exact right age to misread/idealize the relationship element of this movie when I saw it as a 14 year old. Now that I’m about the same age as Tom, I instead misread/idealize the concept that a disaffected 20-something can wake up one day and get his life together!

I was trying to approximate what it looks like to get an honest long pour whiskey diet vs the relative ABV of a miller and a craft beer, but my math was off.

Drinking vs not drinking, yeah, you’ll save calories not drinking. If you’re going to get drunk anyway, though, you’re much better off with 3 whiskey diets than 9 Miller Lites/5 craft beers. 

I was going to joke about how these songs are old enough to be considered classic rock, then thought about how DOOMSDAY is definitely a hip-hop classic and American Football is THE classic Midwest Emo record and I made myself a little sad.