The downtuning is a big thing, but their songs can't even be arranged for a single guitar. I had the same experience as a teenager - going from metal to punk, which is all just power chords no matter how complicated it gets, and then running into something that's actually intricate.

Gore literally flies at the camera!

I went through adolescence thinking that Kurt Cobain was basically a secular saint of limitless artistic and social importance. He was one hell of a musician but also one hell of a trashy fuckup.

I was about to say, are we sure this is the result of hacking and not a minor change in the Post's editorial practices?

See, old people use the internet like this… (pantomimes squinting at a monitor and laboriously clicking a mouse) but young people use the internet like this (pantomimes being a Nazi).

(Arranges desserts in a swastika shape)
"Aww, I made that Nazi thing again!"

Ron screaming "Call an ambulance!" between bouts of uncontrollable vomiting is the kind of thing that could have been a slapstick punchline, but instead they stage it just realistically enough that it hits the sweet-spot between being hilarious and legitimately disturbing.

I think this may be the only time in the history of the universe that the phrase "Good thing Paul Rudd wasn't in this" is accurate.

"'Then he cut up the body and take the piece to the sea' - that should be a new scene…"

I think it helps that the core of the show is a nightmarish combination of uncertainty, and despair, which it expresses through nonstop, hilarious jokes. It never even presents the characters as unhappy, just damaged, which I think gives the humor some extra depth (even "maladjusted" sitcom characters usually just…

Please tell me that sentence means that Rob Thomas, the creator of iZombie, has a role in the show as Rob Thomas, the singer from Matchbox 20.

My wife is still flabbergasted that the line "May the Force be with you" is never followed by "And also with you." She totally remembers that being a thing, I suspect because she only went to church a couple of times as a kid and places "organized religion" in the same low-rent space as "Star Wars trivia" in her…

People get all fixated on the graininess and "texture," but what really makes good 16mm cinematography special is how uniquely it handles light. It kind of flattens the color in brightly lit scenes, but under low light it picks up all of these odd blues and greens. Especially for horror movies, it gives them a…

Citizen Kane "aged" new film to look like old film by literally scuffing it up. That's different from "aging" digital video to look like old film, which to my knowledge worked okay in "Grindhouse" but otherwise is a boondoggle.

Just send this post to Sinbad and Tom Arnold's agent(s). I'd say there's a 50% chance one or both will ask for the completed script to read. Send them a script that refers to the main characters as "Sinbad" and "Tom Arnold," with the working title "Untitled 2017 Sinbad/Tom Arnold Picture," and I'd say one of them…

Should I get you started on the digital "16mm film grain" effect in digital editing packages? Or should I not?

I haven't seen Rogue One yet, but when I watched the Force Awakens for the second time, I realized it was almost exactly like watching it for the first time, which is to say that the whole thing was pleasant and comfortably familiar. It's well paced, and the acting is solid across the board. The effects look nice,…

Everyone knows that Star Wars is way better now that a new high-quality product is being churned out like clockwork every twelve months, and we don't have to worry about anything weird slipping past Quality Control.

Laserdisc. If you use an S-Video connector it's like watching a slightly more detailed VHS cassette. That you have to flip over every forty-five minutes.

Japan gets the best commercials. I remember reading in GamePro about Capcom's Japanese ad campaign for Resident Evil 2, which included a commercial directed by George Romero on a full-scale replica of the game's police station. I mean… come the fuck on.