God damn you! God damn you to hell!

This "retirement" is sounding more and more like Sir Patrick saying he won't work with Bryan Singer anymore.

And it's interesting because Shaun of the Dead and 28 Days Later are so familiar that they're essentially pastiche, but they're made by such excellent creative teams that they work on their own merits (I would love to see a straight-up horror movie accomplish the slow-burning escalation that Shaun manages during its…

I find Riley extremely tedious as a character, but the line "I'm looking for a man - a SALES man" almost makes the character worthwhile.

I think it's funny how the Slenderman looks a lot like the Tall Man from Phantasm and even has a name that sounds the same. The Internet's obsession with him might have been a little less fervent if more folks watched a thirty year old movie.

One of the most frustrating things about zombie stories as a whole is that they really don't change much. The original "Dead" trilogy is, in order: a siege story about a group of people trying to fend off zombies in an enclosed space; a road movie / gonzo satire filled with gory violence; and a post-apocalypse story…

It's the only one I've seen in the last fifteen years or so, and it really is wonderful. I've been stocking up on palatable kid movies since we had a baby, and Sleeping Beauty is a lot less interesting than I remembered (though it's pretty!). The beginning of Bambi is really truly amazing, so that one I'll have to…

This is a movie post, so I should ask - front projection or rear projection?

"Shared-universe theories can only enhance your enjoyment of a stand-alone narrative."
- The internet

Hey, if you think about it fairy tales are kind of weird! Someone should make a movie where they take out all that naive, subconscious weirdness and replace it with glib meta-humor, farts, and Smashmouth!

I don't remember either of these things, and honestly I don't know who you're talking about - and why does the header pic show a guy with a pompadour shouting at a mannequin?

When a culture tries to contradict the first two statements, things go poorly. When it tries to contradict that last statement though… that's when it gets ugly.

The most recent time I watched the series, it struck me that the second half of S3 contains an awful lot of dicking around about how to deal with Angel without taking the obvious approach - which is something that makes Buffy the show it is, but Xander's take on the situation is still pretty clear-eyed: Angel is…

Every time the show gives us an "Angel with a Brogue" scene, I sincerely wish they had just taken the "Prince of Thieves" approach and said, "Fuck it - an American accent is still less distracting than what he's doing."

The phrase "think of Josh Radnor" just doesn't make any sense. Like the words and grammar are there, but the whole idea isn't.

I was pissed that they killed off Anya, but it was a fittingly badass way to go.

As narrative cheats go, the abrupt transition from "these Uruk-Hai Turok-Han are unkillable killing machines!" to "the Uruk-Hai Turok-Han drop like flies if you have a crossbow" was extremely unsatisfying.

Unless the X-Files lied to me, you guys have a LOT of weird shit in your forests.

Are we talking about Congo? Please tell me I wandered into a discussion of Congo.

This is a lot of words to say "I dislike this person, and if you disagree with me it's because you're an idiot with no taste." Which is still a lot of words to say, "Just ignore this post." Which is still four words more than necessary.