Oh, get over yourself. Killmonger had his whole life to plan his attack on a coddled trust fund baby and he still failed.

I was also disappointed in HT2. Roel Reiné just oozes anonymous competence. He knows how to get the shots in the can (which ain’t nothing, considering the budgets and schedules he’s working with) but he can’t invest any of them with any drama or interest. He should really just be a second unit director.

You don’t think those same producers you think she should have brought her problems to are some of the people who can fuck off forever? How exactly do you picture that conversation going?

Thank God an expert showed up. Previously we were stuck taking the word of the woman this experience actually happened to.

This is gonna go over well.

The Debt Collector? I loved it. My favorite kind of action movie is the kind where the conversations are as good as the fights, and the fights are pretty good, too. The best part of the movie is Louis Mandylor as the schlubby partner. If they gave out DTV Academy Awards, he’d take home the Best Supporting Actor this…

Have you seen the last couple Adkins movies? He’s getting better at the whole acting side of acting now that he’s allowed to be British on film.

I always hate that line of criticism. If Denzel wants to coast through some low-key action movies, who are you to judge? It’s his life, his career. He doesn’t owe anybody shit.

Cassandra Cain, you say?

It’s a movie that takes place on Christmas Eve and shares many themes and motifs with traditional Christmas stories. That’s enough for me. Your mileage may vary.

Of course he grows as a character. He learns to put his pride away and admit his mistakes (“She’s heard me say ‘I love you’ a million times. But she’s never heard me say ‘I’m sorry.’”) He learns to drop his macho bullshit and respect his wife’s autonomy (“This is my wife, Holly Genero.”) By the sequel, we learn that…

But the themes of Die Hard are perfectly in line with the traditional Christmas film. It’s the story of a career-minded individual trying to be reunited with his loved ones for the holidays and learning a lesson about what’s really important along the way. That’s what like 80% of Christmas movies are about. It’s just…

Make several shows about how nobody is 100% good or bad but everyone is human and worthy of redemption: Yay! What a wonderful humanist point of view!

A bad cat, though, is just the absolute worst. It takes your time and money, destroys your shit, and doesn’t even give you any love in return. It thinks you’re just some monster who leaves bowls of food lying around as a trap and inexplicably harvests its feces for nefarious purposes.

I never used to care for cats until I met one that had a lot of dog-like qualities to go with his feline ones. That was the best of both worlds and to this day he remains the coolest animal I’ve ever known.

I am with you on this. Dogs are like children: I enjoy them in small doses. That’s why I’m an uncle, not a father.

I can relate to this. I don’t know what happened to me. I grew up with dogs and will shed a tear to this day when thinking of that one special one, but then I woke up one day in my early thirties and realized I didn’t actually like dogs that much anymore. They’re great in theory but I don’t really get much out of the…

I’m not trying to knock it. I’m sure it’s great. But I was always fooling myself that I would ever read it. My tastes tend toward the terse and hard-boiled. Clean prose, straightforward storytelling, no bells and whistles. Crime fiction mostly. I got all that fancypants shit out of my system in grad school. I like the…

I had this book sitting on my shelf for a decade and a half before I finally accepted that I was never actually going to read the fuckin’ thing so I should let it go free so it could find a good home where it was appreciated.