I watched it recently for the first time in a decade and it’s...it’s the worst one. I was around 14 the last time I saw it and WOW did I not clock how relentlessly gross that movie is towards all of it’s female characters. It’s pervasive. Also the movie’s boring or whatever, but I expected that going in.

This is a little pedantic but the point of the phrase ACAB, to my knowledge, is the structural reasons people keep being shot by police. All Cops Are Bastards doesn’t mean that all officers are individually violent as much as it means the system of policing is so fundamentally flawed and harmful that anyone inside it…

If I recall, they did that in Get Smart and it worked like gangbusters. Not quite the same tone as Black Adam, but it could still be really effective.

I’ve never cared much for 21 Jump Street, not really sure why. The jokes just didn’t land for me as much and the highschool setting didn’t endear me to it. 22 Jump Street, on the other hand, is maybe my favorite comedy of the 2010's. The movie fires on every cylinder for the whole runtime and every piece works. It…

That scene (and the buffet that precedes it) is maybe the hardest I’ve ever laughed in a theater. Ice Cube is killer in it and the egg timer sound as Channing Tatum realizes what’s going on is inspired.

I have a weird phobia of only very long escalators; it’s something about how steep and tubelike they are. 95% of the time this isn’t a problem because most escalators aren’t long enough for this to be an issue. But I also live in the dmv, so every there’s always the Wheaton metro or some other steep shit lurking in…

I literally just got around to watching this last week after meaning to since it came out. I love a lot of latter-day Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes and Man From U.N.C.L.E. especially) and this started out strong. Really fun, ridiculous movie with propulsive action. However, it’s so rushed that there’s no time for any…

I’ve never actually seen the first one, but I saw the sequel pretty young and revisited it last year. That movie rules.

So, I sort of grew up with American Dad but it wasn’t until this year that I fully realized that it’s one of my favorite shows of all time, full stop. Not comedies or animated shows, just favorite. Every character has so much comedic potential especially compared to Family Guy, it’s closest cousin, and there are so…

I’ve been really enjoying Stumptown’s run so far. It’s a charming show with great dialogue and likable characters. There’s a lot of Terriers energy to it (the multi-episode Donal Logue arc adds to that).  Kind of shaggy, but not so loose that it can't have tension.  And the cast is terrific.

Hey fair enough. Nurses being paid more is a good thing for sure.  I wasn't considering benefits either.

It’s probably less than that, even, because I sincerely doubt a nurse at a free hospice is pulling 100 grand a year.

I wasn’t the biggest fan of first season, but it really really improved after that.  The second and third seasons are great, imo.

He was.  And his name was listed as Dmitri which made me wonder if he'd be some version of Chameleon.  I was excited for a Numan Acar Chameleon, based solely on that episode of Jack Ryan!  But, no.  He was just a glorified extra.  Oh well.

I mean, he had a small role in the Spider-Man movie this summer, but it was marginal.

Numan Acar was absolutely the best character in the first season.  I'd love to see him in other stuff.

Well the issue is more that the first two seasons were good. And then so was 5. And that’s...kinda it. I’ve been watching since the beginning and I really loved those first two seasons. Kept watching out of habit and hope until 5 which was a return to form and then just trailed off. I may catch up for the last season,…

Len Wiseman is an ok director, barely, but he’s such a weird choice to direct this. His Total Recall and Die Hard movies had alright action but none of the physicality that something like John Wick or Atomic Blonde needs. Plus, obviously, it’d be nice if it was directed by a woman.  And Lexi Alexander is right there! …

Maybe, but this review made it seem like a much more critical look at this type of movie and the type of people involved, without the glorification that Tarantino seems incapable of fully subverting in OUATIH. Unforgiven is the touchstone Dowd gives in the review and that’s not a super self-aggrandizing work, even for…

I can't argue with you there.  The series in general does need better representation all around, but I think (hope?) they're trending upward in that respect.