If you watch Asian comedies you see they often humorously reference that crawling girl from the horror film ‘The Ring’. How often has that mask from SCREAM comically popped up in other films? Once the ‘horror’ is gone from an old horror genre all that remains is ‘corny bullshit’

I’m so excited. Now I can pay to seem something I used to be able to see for free! On a side note, shouldn’t ‘CBS All Access’ have instead been named ‘CBS No Access’?

Mental illness is not a ‘free pass’ to behave badly. Sorry you’re going through problems but being a pro-slavery Trump supporter is a bridge too far.

Caitlyn Jenner’s son-in-law is having a particularly bad year. There’s no lifetime guarantee on celebrity fame. You can’t repeatedly abuse and insultand degrade your audience with impunity. It looks like its time for Kayne to go the way of Vanilla Ice.

Remember this is America, the land of over-expensive internet, spotty service and often crap download speeds, especially if you’re not in a major metropolitan area. Also, the country is aging rapidly. Some folks just do things the way they always did them, not attempting to play leap-frog with new technology every 5…

You should watch more Korean TV. They revel in (1) characters going back in time and living their lives an alternate way (‘Go Back Couple’ is a noteworthy recent example), and (2) characters getting randomly killed off by either the ‘car of death’ or the ‘bus of death’, depending on the show’s budget.

McCarthy really shouldn’t have done that film ‘Bridesmaids’. Ever since, her manager (I assume) has been steering her into raunchcoms. Before Bridesmaids America knew her as Sooki St. James, she was Dena in ‘Samantha Who?’ After Bridesmaids she started doing broad gross-out humor roles.

‘Thin Red Line’, ‘Rushmore’ and ‘The Truman Show’ were 1998 movies so its a bit of a shock to see the likes of ‘Ronin’  on this list. I thought Ronin was less a film and more of a ‘processed film product’ like cheese or bologna. It was a feature length automobile ad with a heist plot loosely attached. In Germany auto…

Sissy Spacek is Rip Torn’s little sister. So the topic of dementia would be very close to her.

As bad as the Sharnado franchise was, at lest it was more self-aware in its awfulness than most of those Steven King TV series filmed in Canada. Remember ‘The Fog’?

Ah, you’re all spoiled. Enduring the ads is proof that the series is worth watching! If you’re not willing to sit through the ads in order to see the series you might as well bail on the series altogether. (insert ironic wink emoji here)

Aaaah, we finally get a film not involving a superhero for once! Or is that statement correct? Is Castleman an iconic superhero character (in all but comic book superhero abilities), and is the wife representing the eventual fate of all of those Lois Lanes, Pepper Potts and Mary Jane Watsons who latch onto heroes?

If a 70 year old American male who came of age during the Vietnam war can’t distinguish napalm from Agent Orange he’s really and truly fcking stupid. That’s equivalent to someone who came of age in 2001 not knowing what ‘terrorists’ are. Even if you’re as ignorant as a stump you’d at least have learned about that…

Even going back to ‘Lolita’ in 1962, Kubrick had a way of making perversity seem mundane. ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ changed my mind about Stanley Kubrick. I used to like him before that film. Afterward I looked back on his oeuvre and his films seemed to get increasingly bloodless and desiccated as his career progressed. What…

I recently discovered the website ‘VIKI’ which showcases TV and movies from Korea, China, Taiwan, and Japan. The series library is huge and goes back years (and the translated subtitles have been excellent so far). And yes, a lot of the series are indeed big city workplace rom-coms just like this film. The difference…

The original story came out of an age of arranged marriages. Its subtext is telling girls ‘He may seem like a hairy brute at first but give it enough time and genuine feelings will develop.’ The male equivalent would be the ancient Greek tale of Pygmalion, telling boys ‘She may be cold an unresponsive a first but with…

I posted the names of two recent Korean rom-com series with overtly communist (sympathetic) main characters but the post didn’t seem to take. For young underemployed city workers with no prospects, the ‘class struggle’ lives on. Korean TV is diverse. Some series are very Buddhist, some very Catholic, some very consumer…

‘Let’s Eat 3' is currently running now (up to episode 9). That was one of the series that utilized the ‘bus of death’ to get rid of a character.

My own take on ‘The Death Of Superman’ is a bit different. It was the era of ‘Wall Street’,  Gordon Gekko and Beany Babies collectors. Comics producers decided to switch from mass entertainment to the ‘collectibles’ market. They began producing upscale comic books to be ‘collected’ as investments instead of actually…

There was a series last year named ‘Revolutionary Love’ about a chaebol heir who falls for a spunky communist temp worker. To prove his love he gets a lower class job and eventually unionizes the janitorial staff of his father’s office tower. There was also ‘Strongest Deliveryman’, a tale about the lower classes…