You mean like If Beale Street Could Talk, To Kill a Mockingbird, Death and the Maiden, Brian Banks, When They See Us, etc, etc.... Yeah there are no movies or tv shows about that? Go back to 8chan, so that you can run away of all the mean women tormenting you for being a man, and refusing to giving you the attention…

You can always count on the trolls to be the first to jump out and prove the point of the article by trying to deny it.

Oh, and also ‘Silence’. But that looked kinda boring.

I do kind of love that we’re at the point with comic book movies where “It’s derivative, but like, at least it’s derivative of something else,” is a selling point.

Hey all. Just wanted to drop in here and give a very sincere thank you to everyone who’s read the piece and everyone who’s commented below. I had to kind of talk myself into writing this, for a number of reasons, but I’m glad I did, and I’m deeply moved by the responses here—by those of you sharing your own…

I can’t say I’m surprised they let Derry off the hook, even though the people who live there have been infected by Pennywise’s generational evil and were often part of the horror of the place (making its destruction logical once P. is dispatched for good).

Unsurprising. I rewatched It this weekend, and it’s just not very good. A lot of it works under the dumb, perceived notion of “CLOWNS R SCARY, RIGHT???” mixed with erratic movement and unnecessary CGI. This sounds like a doubling down of a lot of that, instead of trying to capture the better parts of the film where,…

It’s tempting to go with Shakespeare (“Hamlet” can be studied forever, rewardingly, and the fun of “Richard III” is always there to re-discover), but I’ll go with “Don Quixote.”

Moby Dick. Only book I’ve read repeatedly and discovered something new every time.

Yeah, apparently the AV Club is going all-out to try and make me seem like an intellectual lightweight today, ‘cause mine’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Anyone else beside me really appreciate that brass-heavy music style that Burt Bacharach often used? It’s not popular today, but to me, it brings to mind the fact that the late 60s and early 70s weren’t all hippies and rock and roll, despite what some Boomers want us to believe.

I can’t believe that I just now realized that Han Solo is basically Space Butch Cassidy.

“This scene has not aged well.”

Okay, School of Rock doesn’t suck.

To answer your first question, no. 

Oh, Posey would be great in either of those parts! Blanchett is a good fit IMHO but the movie weirdly shortchanges her by making her much more of the main character than the book does. And yeah, I wasn’t crazy about the book; I liked it, but by the time I got to it I heard such amazing things that I was maybe a little…

That’s probably fair—those Pitt roles in traditional big-studio vehicles are not among his most memorable (I like Spy Game, but Redford really dominates). He doesn’t have a Good Will Hunting or a Bourne Identity or a Catch Me If You Can. But I do think his best roles have been a bit more than “character parts,” per…

I think he definitely has some character-acting skills (Snatch, for example, is a great character part) but there are other guys I think this applies to more; he’s certainly carried movies in a more traditional movie-star mode. (To cite one example, Allied, which I thought was terrific.) I think he, DiCaprio, Damon,…

Isn’t 2019 25 years after 1994?

One great meta-observation I saw out of Once Upon a Time is that Pitt isn’t a leading man. He is a very handsome character actor.