Holy smokes! It’s even worse than everyone said it would be!

I feel obligated to point out that the concept of a grown man connected to his mother by his umbilical cord was addressed in a stomach-churning In Living Color sketch with a young Jim Carrey.

What was interesting was how, during the course of a single scene, the show goes a long way to redeem the setting's religion from being a pointless avenue for corruption when Trevor calls for an ordained priest to create holy water to fight the demons. It was even more telling when the wizard who had just been…

The only thing I was disappointed by was that a bat or medusa head didn't come flying in from off screen to knock Trevor off the structure when he was jumping around the clock tower. If they want to be true to the games, that should happen at least once an episode.

Which, considering he played Zatoichi with his eyes rolled upwards because there was no practical or digital effect to make him look blind, was about 102 hours of pure agony.

Probably because there's virtually no need to come up with an original premise for any given episode. Instead, just apply your characters to any of a large number of recognizable, preexisting events and you've got yourself a TV show.

I think the real reason that South Park is going to veer away from politics is that exaggeration as satire is dead. No matter how outrageously you depict a character, it's not going to be far enough from how real people act to actually make any sort of statement. I've been watching the older episodes of South Park,…

I found the rapid jump from planet to planet jarring, but not nearly as jarring as digital zombie Peter Cushing. I'm fine with acknowledging that digital effects can accomplish a lot of things in a movie, but they can't begin to replicate a person's natural facial movements. And young Leia was barely better than…

I started to feel the burnout after the seventh or eighth "cut scene where an NPC takes you a block from where you are standing and shows you something." My suggested subtitle is "Old Man From Viridian City: The Game."

I'd be willing to say that it's also an underrated gem in terms of voice acting. I can't think of a character in the movie that didn't have the perfect voice to go along with the puppet. That said, I'm really glad they decided not to use the constructed language they had originally planned for the skeksis.

I plumb forgot to mention this earlier, but I figured out how to bring down the Trump campaign. All we have to do is post on every social media available the follow phrase, as written: "A VOTE FOR TRUMP IS A VOTE FOR RUSSIA!" Most people will read that and realize the intricacies of international diplomacy that…

I'm also a Godzilla fan, and that prepared me for the inevitable long jaunts following the human protagonists as they run from Godzilla and encounter monkey/cockroach people from space, or whatever. So, for me, the Godzilla scenes were like a cool breeze when you didn't even realize how hot it was. I'm not going to…

Apparently the technology that allows a fade in from a black screen is inexorably tied to the technology that goes BWAAAAAAAAUUUUAAAAMMMMPP, because every trailer I've seen in the past year has both of those, regardless of genre.

I've long thought that "Base Wars" had the right idea for spicing up baseball; any out-at-base results in a fist fight between players, and all the players are robots.

The delivery on the line "First you crack the shell, then you crack the nuts inside!" is nothing shy of perfect.

I'm playing the original Castlevania for the first time in twenty years, and a lot of the difficulty comes from the fact that ol' Simon Belmont walks and jumps like he desperately needs ACL surgery. I like to think that it's the reason he wants to destroy Dracula.