Yeah, the studio audience was completely silent at that. Guess the latest season of American Crime Story wasn’t exactly a cultural sensation.

Orphan Black Spoilers Continued: Aynsley’s death was certainly jarring. Everything’s fun and games and then... disposal choke. But looking back it really does throw a wrench in tonally and propels you into the next season.

That killed me, its such a John Mulaney detail to include.

Nah, this sketch was pretty dumb. The sad part was that the writers/performers assumed Meet the Parents was zeitgeisty enough for references to make sense. And if you are going to send up a movie that came out almost 20 years ago, at least you could have done a mini-Royal Tennenbaums reunion with Luke Wilson, who’s…

“When was the last time someone smiled as you walked into a room? I can’t imagine anyone deriving joy from seeing such an overprivileged husk of a shallow human being. OKURRR!”

So I saw Ready Player One.

I spent my first movie night this week with Street of Shame. It presented Mizoguchi’s usual life-draining forces: a selfish father, a greedy husband, a pathetic husband, an ungrateful child. But the protagonists were so much stronger than usual! Two of them refused to take crap from anyone, which was refreshing. I…

There was a period in the early to mid 90's where every fucking show I went to had moshing, even if the music genre shouldn’t inspire it and the musicians hated it and actively told the audience to knock it off. I remember the band James playing and the lead singer repeatedly telling the audience to stop moshing and…

I think Renee might be a big red herring. I mean, why should she keep targeting Stan when he’s been mostly out of the spy game for three years now? She has no information to collect from him, she should have dropped him and switched assignment by now. And sure, maybe now Stan will matter again because of Oleg, but to…

Now on number 7, I may have a problem.

A more recent one: Deadpool, very funny, zany and setting the mood right from the start.

And alt-reichers calling him a cuck and whatever new slur they invented for a Jew yesterday will RUSH to his defense.

The irony of you throwing a tantrum about other people’s feelings can be seen from space.

This is the problem with these modern outrages: they always have to be so binary about it. I have no problem with people having problems with representation, sexism, tokenism, or any other -ism, but the dialogue always seem to divide up into two camps; you’re either “fer” it or “agin” it with no nuance, very little…

The argument that Lisa was the mouthpiece for the writers’ shitty beliefs because she’s Apu’s friend is kind of insane, no?

Have you seen the documentary? It’s not as hyper-sensitive as you may think.

I loved Nocturnal Animals and thought it was the best movie of 2016. I recommended it to my mother, completely forgetting about the opening sequence. She, of course, turned it off during the opening and is now even more wary of my recommendations.

I did not enjoy the movie as a whole, but the opening credits to Nocturnal Animals are, shall we say, memorable.

There was a lot of it. Long straight hair parted in the middle, bell bottoms, etc. It’s the phenomenon, still evident, where 20-somethings are nostalgic for the decade they were born in even though they can’t really remember it (see, e.g., Happy Days). It’s about to get awkward though, because what do we say when…

The New WKRP in Cincinnati. The Columbo TV movies. Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. Not to mention all the music, TV, and movies that just copied the 70's vibe or were actually set in the 70's like That 70's Show, Jackie Brown, The Ice Storm.