“Trust me. This is like the least weird thing about it.”

She’s tragic and utterly heartbreaking in “Days of Wine and Roses” (which is still a tough watch) and actually steals “The Hustler” from Paul Newman in every single scene she’s in. She was once-in-a-lifetime good and jaw-droppingly gorgeous on top of that. Like Inger Stevens, she should have been one of the movie…

Zootopia also has a much more interesting setting. A city where every kind of mammal lives together has a lot more potential than a city with four kinds of inhabitants. The background is packed with details showing how the needs of so many different creatures are accommodated, all of which feeds back into the movie’s…

Seriously, look at the original run. These are all whizbang adventures that are just plain fun to watch over and over:

Seriously, does no one at Disney remember Mars Needs Moms or John Carter? If not for the fortuitous timing of the Marvel deal, those two actually could have legitimately bankrupted the whole studio. They literally lost over $300 million dollars on them!

I think it’s simpler: it’s ugly. It doesn’t look like Pixar; it looks like an Inside Out knockoff from the $5 Walmart video bin.

Lightyear was also ugly, as it happens. Was there a big change in Pixar’s art direction just before that?

I was surprised Barbarian wasn’t getting a DVD release on Redbox, so I watched it VOD a few weeks ago. Pretty good, but because it had taken me so long to get to it I was somewhat spoiled as to certain plot turns.

saying, “As a leader in this community, I’m not going to stand by and allow this minority to infiltrate our schools…God did put me here.”

Yeaaahhh...it’s a great episode, but I don’t really buy that the Midnight Train to Georgia number was intended to be some metatextual pre-strike sendoff. In fact, I think it’s funnier as a completely random bit with no additional significance.

Like the Simpsons, 30 Rock has a lot of song-parody moments that stick with me for years after and ultimately replace the original in my head. Can’t hear “Midnight Train” without thinking “I missed it! (He missed it!)” or “Empire State of Mind” without thinking “concrete bunghole where dreams are made up, there’s…

Were you going for the irony of writing for the New AV Club, having replaced the old, far better writers?

I notice they missed Leap Day 2008 because of the writers strike, so I wonder if their Leap Day 2012 episode was something they’d planned for 2008.

Man with the lease deals that all of the manufacturers are now offering on EVs the market for them is going to explode. Toyota can say whatever it wants, but not having to drop $75 at a gas station once a week is powerful. Seeing it in your electric bill once a month is a whole lot different, especially when many…

Wow, I actually forgot Gawker was a thing.

Thor 3 was a palate cleansing sherbet after a bland meal. Thor 4 was a truckload of sherbet.

I liked it. But I was immediately on board with the comic direction taken with Ragnarok, because I always found Thor to be a tedious narrative in the comics and those first 2 movies. Though I guess I owe Stan Lee for teaching me the word “verily” when I was 11.  I would’ve liked to see them explore the “Asgardians of…

Frankly, I was deeply turned off by the darkness, grotesqueness, and generally miserable mood of Vol. 3. This is the series that gave us dancing Groot and launched with a Raiders-style tomb raid set to “Come and Get Your Love.”

“Whether you find that ominous or exciting depends entirely on how you feel about Chris Pratt.”

Marvel would be smart to leave the actors alone and let them miss the characters/work/money. They could lean on warlock/Stallone led ravagers/Nova film.

This remains the easiest money Cooper and Diesel will ever make.

Also, with What If, Marvel Zombies and who knows what else animation, all the actors can do easier work.