Speaking of fooling Nazis, I rewatch The Last Crusade a lot. Funny, heartwarming and a legit crusade against evil. I stand by my opinion that it's substantially superior to Raiders of the Lost Ark. 

The Great Escape. It’s a perfect three act structure: (a) The Planning (b) The Escape (c) On The Run. Like Infinity War it juggles a ton of characters but is constantly moving between them to keep things interesting. Don’t like James Coburn and his weird Aussie accent? James Garner and his blind friend are in the next…

“I’m not sure any have ever more accurately captured the spirit of Mr. Wickham than the way Bride & Prejudice reimagines him as a hot British backpacker with a performative laid-back cultural sensitivity.”

I’m gonna go with option C. “You’all need Jesus”

Why don’t all these people split the difference and have sex with me? I’m gross and unappealing, but I’ve also never killed anybody.

Hot take: The Meryl Streep number in “Mary Poppins Returns” was terrible and should have been left on the cutting room floor. Narratively, it also makes no damn sense. They bring the bowl to Meryl to “fix it”, even though the entire point of the previous extended sequence was to fix the bowl. And then the bowl…

Aw, thanks! Sorry for getting a little salty about it. Sometimes it’s hard to tell if people are literally just racing down to comment on the head, which I’ve seen happen. Never fails to puzzle me!

I don’t know, part of me thinks that some filmmakers might do well to take more cues from music videos in terms of imagination and energy. For as many music videos are generic or half-assed, there are so many that are conceptually strong, beautifully executed, and as thrilling as a great musical number in a great…

Imperfect is a perfectly cromulent word

I know lots of people love this show, and lots of other people hate it for the same reason I can’t connect with it (lots of Gen Xers trying to be artists don’t get enough help from their family to not have a day job while pursuing their quixotic dreams) but I just wanted to point out that this whole thing failed not…

Max Power! And it comes with a song!

I think you’re right about that. Many of his early numbers were contemporary (“Let’s Have Intercourse”, “I Go to the Zoo”), which he does well, but this number was a real treat. And might I add that Vinnie looks sharp in that tux?

did love Josh’s “You don’t wear underwear? That’s really dangerous. Like, what about zippers?” back to Nathaniel

The first time I heard any music from Carmen was in the Gilligan’s Island episode when the musical producer (I want to say it was Phil Silvers?) ended up on the island, and they tried to convince him to rescue them by staging a musical version of Hamlet. Gilligan sang the “to be or not to be” soliloquy to the tune of…

Oh my God, how could I forget that by the time I read Of Mice and Men as a jr. high reading assignment, I’d already seen who knows how many Looney Toons characters who say, “I will love him and pet him and squeeze him and call him George!”

I always remember the old Merrie Melodies cartoon where it was just a bunch of fish that were caricatures of 1930's movie stars. Eight-year-old me was all “what the hell is this?”

My dad had a copy of a Mad artist Don Martin’s book of parodies featuring a parody of generic Elvis movies. I thought it was funny enough until I watched Viva Las Vegas, then all the jokes hit. Thank god for Mad Magazine and the good work they did over the decades, forming the senses of humor for 9 and 10 year olds.

Thanks to Airplane!, I knew most disaster movie tropes long before I ever bothered to actually sit down and watch The Poseidon Adventure or The Towering Inferno (the best of the ‘70s disaster flicks, IMHO). And Airplane! wasn’t even directly parodying those.

About a year ago, I was at my regular karaoke night and we slipped into a “Weird Al” block, where one person did a Weird Al song and that inspired somebody else to do a Weird Al song until suddenly a dozen Weird Al songs were queued up to go. The KJ then asked us all the question “Are there any songs where you knew…

If we’re talking D&D ability points, although Jacksonville dirtbag Jason may have rolled a 3 or a 4 on Intelligence, looks like he somehow scored around a 17 on Wisdom (also clearly a high roll on Charisma, and given the dance background, likely Dexterity as well).

Bonus question: what character class is Jason best…