Sometimes if I drop a can/bottle but nothing spills I find myself thinking "Any glue leakin'? Nah, that glue ain't goin' nowhere."

I've been catching up with some recent Coen movies, and their love of an elliptical non-ending seems to be ratcheting up. But they haven't topped No Country for Old Men, not even come close.

If you don't remember the scene where Josh Brolin climbs out of a river and shoots a dog, you might have been asleep.

My wife was extremely uncomfortable with how hard the parents try to normalize the girls' odd behavior. It's clearly not the parents' fault that there daughters were ill, but it also seems like the possibility of mental illness never really occurred to them in a meaningful way.

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I actually found that the "reveal" made the beginning of the movie kind of pointless. Knowing that the girls are mentally ill (the one who doesn't have schizophrenia has schizotypal disorder, though that's kind of buried in the editing) makes the Slenderman even more incidental. It…

I haven't read Apt Pupil in years, but I was really unnerved by the way it explicitly connected the teenage character's obsession with genocide to his sexuality. Stephen King usually pulls punches with his characterizations, but that character is just a black hole of decency. The movie was a dull turd on its own…

Yeah, the word "from" in that retraction actually does require its own retraction.

(Adopts a Very Reasonable tone of voice)

Do you think if the American people banded together we could convince Trump that the White House is haunted so that he resigns the presidency?

That's what the description sounded like, but I like to give fiction the benefit of the doubt.

I really liked Unfriended - it works surprisingly well as a horror movie and as a formal experiment, and I appreciate how it applies the horror genre's relentless, draconian sense of justice to online bullying.

When I was about fourteen I wrote a story about a group of teenagers reacting to their dead friend's long, detailed suicide note. It wasn't embarrassing per se because of my age, but in retrospect it requires an absurd degree of naivete to treat suicide as a thoughtful or reflective activity rather than the ugly…

I'm an optimist by nature, so I'd put him at square two.

At the anti-Trump march I attended in Pittsburgh there were lots of kids with their own little homemade including one that read "TRUMP IS A SHMUCK" and one that read "BOO BOO BOO BOO BOO TRUMP." (There was also an adorable little girl with a comically oversized "BLACK JOY" sign.)

I think the last scene of the movie, where Freddie starts "auditing" the woman he just had sex with, but really he's just asking her about herself, suggests that he's actually come away from the experience with something constructive. Compare it to the earlier sex scenes were he's messily humping a pile of sand or…

I'm lukewarm on Chris Evans, but he's grown on me by force of repetition, and he plays well off of Robert Downey Jr. Stan reminds me of a taller, blander Peter Dinklage with a less distinctive voice.

Even if Phoenix didn't have a chance against D-Day at the Oscars, there's no reason Waltz should have beaten Hoffman.

It's more that he's able to couch his rhetoric in a way that makes it palatable - for example coining the term "alt-right" as a less-loaded euphemism for "white supremacy" and then expressing antisocial racist views in language that makes them appear more reasonable and less violent than they are. As a society we…

It's not a good sign - if you don't read the very last word, it's saying the exact opposite of what the demonstrator intended.

Picture that scene of the T-1000's foot reassimilating a missing part. That is Richard Spencer stepping in dog shit.