Oh, I’m great at dramatizing arguments I’ve had several times before. Just takes a bit of pattern recognition and rudimentary grasp of script structure. ;-* 

Credit to Lucas, as inelegant and terrible as the prequels are in execution, but that’s at least a feature and not a bug. The Old Republic being ineffectual and naive about rising fascism is the point; Palpatine is Hitler and everyone else is Neville Chamberlain. But in the post-ROTJ stories, I don’t know that this is…

Spare 2: Strike

When I watched The Witch all I could see was Finchy from The Office

But does he at any point get turned into a vampire? (Cassian Nandor?)

I’ve been having a serious conversation with myself lately as to whether or not I’m seriously enjoying this show so far. Are we supposed to be rooting for Steven? Steven isn’t real!

If people didn’t value your opinions they wouldn’t have given you as much grief as they did. There’s nothing wrong with expecting a movie out of a universe as controlled and cultivated as Marvel to stand on its own as a work of art. Writing that it delivers what it is expected to deliver as part of that universe, no…

This is definitely one of the most underrated Disney features. The Once and Future King is, in my opinion, one of the great stories of the 20th Century, and the book version of the Sword in the Stone is truly amazing. I can readily forgive all the...oddities about the movie that have been mentioned by others, because…

It does seem to be a common SF device. The most recent example I’ve encountered was the Kefahuchi Tract in “Light” (MJ Harrison).

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…

Nacho Cheese is the superior flavor. It is the gold standard of flavored chips, it is abundant, direct, it has nuance but never betrays its original character, it is even a wonderful color. It does all this without even tasting that much like traditional nacho cheese, yet still being incredibly delicious and…

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Does it have the part where he’s

Well, you’re a bit late—I’ve been doing this professionally for over 20 years. And my job is not to decide whether a given film is intended to be either “didactic” or “entertaining” (as if that were a clear binary division) and analyze it accordingly. Nor is it to tailor my review to a perceived minority of readers…

Okay, so I started ugly crying at this episode, but it wasn’t at where you’d expect. It was at Ishmael (who also gave me Barry Sonnenfeld bingo, Campers!) the man who founded VFD on the idea of doing good through action. Helping people. Saving the world. And then, it all went to shit, he gave up, moved into seclusion,…

I’m grateful that this adaptation happened. It was never dull to watch, and often the most visually captivating series currently running, brimming with wit and imagination. Despite its Gorey-esque tone and macabre and cynical leanings, I don’t think I can call it a pessimistic series.
Yes, authority and institution…

Basically, she needed to collect three Etiquette Gems to affix to her Eternity Umbrella, then she can become queen of the clouds above West London. At the end of the first movie, she’d gotten the gems, but the post-credits stinger suggested that Angela Lansbury was about to be summoned from the Cursed Realm of…

And furthermore, when Neo played Agent Smith's skeleton like a xylophone, he struck the same rib in succession, yet he produced two clearly different tones.

I have said this elsewhere, but the great tragedy of the Wachowskis' career is that their films have been horribly misunderstood by the trolls and slime of the internet. Here are two people who have struggled with their own identities, construct beautiful and humanistic pieces about the true soul and body. The true…