Yeah it’s a shame, if he is Gandalf that’s what’s going to happen. 

Since it was pre-streaming, my seasons were 22 episodes long, so I could still get through a fair bit of the plotlines. The idea was to expand the early issues, update some of the sillier silver age elements and beef up the characterization, basically one issue an episode. Until ‘round about the Second Gen / Season 5, …

The real problem with the X-Men is in order to do the complexity of the evolving storylines and characters any justice, it would have to be a tv series, but it would also have to be insanely expensive. But I for one would love to see the classic 5 as teens in school being taught for three seasons, learning their…

I always wanted to do a retcon where Puck was a little person initially, but in one of his adventures accidentally took a growth serum, then got cut back down by the Razaar demon or whatever the fuck was going on there. 

Avengers Academy meets Squid Games, with a ‘roided out Carrot Top as Arcade.

Great job Natasha Lyonne, truly seemed like just another cast member. Kate and Aidy, we’ll miss you. Pete and Kyle, best of luck. Seriously though, it was Kate and Aidy’s show for ten years, and while I’m glad that some of the talented newcomers will finally get a chance, it is sad to see them go. Kyle and Pete each…

Seven but also George Coe, Michael O’Donohue, Father Guido Sarducci, Franken and Davis, a film by Albert Brooks, and some freaky ass muppets.

Single Female Lawyer
Fighting for her clients
Wearing sexy mini skirts
And being self-reliant

That’s all I got. CGI is questionable, but Maslany is like 2 feet tall and she’s playing a green gargantuan, whaddya want? I’m in.

Most likely they will be returning home at the beginning of the first episode, with flashbacks to show how each of them fared during their time apart, no? With so few episodes a season, I’d hate for them to waste too many getting the band back together. Though I do hope Colin goes through all stages of Energy Vampire…

I think Ego is the Hartman, as she brings a specific world weariness and authority to her straight man characters, while still having break out roles like Dionne Warwick. She’s “the Glue” of this cast. Gardner absolutely inhabits the weirdo characters with such realness that she becomes them for the length of the…

I feel like the Chuck E Cheese sketch could have starred him, but Cumberbatch’s falsetto was so hilariously good that they threw him a bone as the dancer. When he does get that one line or moment in a sketch he stands out. It’s just too crowded right now. Dismukes, Athari, the Johnsons, and Sherman would be absolutely…

Siskel always made more sense, even if I didn’t agree with his opinion, I respected his viewpoint. Ebert was more “they didn’t do this, they shoulda have done that.” While Gene was, “They attempted to do this, and here’s how they failed.”

Good start to your SNL episode reviews, and a pretty good SNL episode to review for a start. Aside from never wanting to see JAJ’s impeached cheeto ever again, I liked all of these sketches, tho I do think they could have pushed more. Like, if they’re going to lampoon Fox News being pro-Putin, really, really get into…

I really appreciated that he became a stadium-sellout “rock star” comic, and threw it all away to play genial weirdos in movies. Once he started doing urbane romantic comedies and taking on upper middle class dad roles I soured on him a bit, but at least he was doing it to fund his personal fine art collection. When…

Good luck Dennis! This was the last recurring series I followed and thus there is no longer any reason for me to come to this site anymore!

Onto the episode itself - pretty funny, Mulaney absolutely killed his monologue and was fully engaged in every sketch... but just too damn many recurring sketches. If you’re doing…

Blue River isn’t a real dog food. Blue Buffalo is the actual product they’re skewering. That original sketch with Cecily from 2014 was the one that convinced me she would be a real star, the way she so believably dove down the well to seemingly real madness about dog food. I’ve been consistently disappointed that SNL…

Sad to see you go, and sad to see the condition of this once great site. Even though I tend to read your (and really any) reviews with a grain of salt, I always appreciated your strict adherence to reviewing a film as a film on its own merits, asking it to be best it could be and criticizing where it fell short. As…

Winds of Winter may eventually be released, maybe even as soon as sometime late next year, but A Dream of Spring will only come out like you said as an outline and some character vignettes and a handful of mostly unfinished chapters. Which is nuts because all he has to do is take a look at those horrible rushed…

But the mouse just wants to watch football and eat chili.

Yeah the last two workers at an actual failing mom and pop video store would be more interesting. Let’s call it, I dunno... “Thomas Video” and set it in Royal Oak, MI. I’m not still bitter.