I mean, it’s such a lesser-known, niche kind of show, who can remember, really?

My guess is that most people who think 64 doesn’t hold up and would rather gouge their eyes out with a rusted spoon than play another second of it (of which I count myself as one) never played it on the Nintendo 64, and their first exposure to it was on a different system, likely after playing any number of other,…

Either that’s sarcasm, or you’ve never been to this site before, in which case I bid you a hearty RUN! GET OUT! SAVE YOURSELF BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!

You all must really have missed these days. Congratulations are in order; I think I speak for the majority of the commentariat when I say those precious few moments without his face on the front page were like a strange wilderness, and there were days I wasn’t sure I was at the correct site. I assume the AVClub tweet…

And Mills Lane had his own court show from 1998-2001. And James Curtis had Curtis Court from 2000-2001. And Larry Joe Doherty had Texas Justice from 2001-2005.

No, that one was a documentary. 

This isn’t exactly exhaustive, and it’s about a year out of date right now, but: http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2022/1/3/200-oldest-living-screen-stars.html

It most definitely was a “congrats on making three movies” ceremony, but by that logic, shouldn’t Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 have swept the Oscars a few years later?

You know what, people are giving this a hard time, and can’t understand the power of cinema, but I get it. I do. I remember the first time a film touched me so deeply, in such a bare part of my soul, that I was moved to the point of knowing, at the core of my being, that this was no mere fictional creation; this was a…

They hit their “we don’t like this and nobody else should either” point and just kinda stopped, yeah. They said what needed to be said (in their minds).

Awards shows are designed by people who hate the awards to appeal to people who have no interest in the awards. 

Ugh. This is the same line of thought that’s led to the Marvel backlash, isn’t it? “I liked this thing, so this other thing is going to suck.” It amuses me that at the time I’m writing this, every single response is some variation of “uh, no, audiences are adults and can recognize that more than one thing can be…

Fun fact, a quick glance at the animated films released in 1954 shows Animal Farm and…not much else. One other movie released in the US (the stop motion Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy), Czechoslovakia’s The Good Soldier Schweik (also stop motion), Brazil’s Amazon Symphony, and the USSR’s Tsarevna The Frog. Animal…

One episode in, I’m digging it. About the only knock I have so far as that Raffi is still there, but I guess they needed someone to use profanity every other line. (Which is fine, in and of itself, it just stands out so much when she’s the only one doing it, and for no reason.)

And yet, it doesn’t matter if people are “reporting” on it cynically or vehemently or anything in between, people are talking about the M&Ms ad campaign, and everyone gets to write yet another article about it. Sounds like a pretty successful ad campaign to me. 

See, I was excited, because a few days ago, we were supposed to be Anti-Beyoncé, because she performed in the Middle East. (As someone who never got into her music, this possibility was exciting for me.) Now we’re supposed to be lamenting her lack of awards for a generational celebration of the minority culture she…

Also returning to theaters, at least according to a cursory glance at my (what’s playing at the theater) app: Elvis, The Banshees of Inisherin, and (for some reason) the Whitney Houston biopic. Also the traditional “here’s all the Best Picture nominees” release.

Never let the facts get in the way of a polemic. 

Thank you for that. The Exorcist is a horror movie, no question, and I would probably give Get Out straight up horror movie status too, but yeah, that’s it. Black Swan is a pretty straightforward drama with elements of horror, Jaws is an action movie, Silence is a psychological thriller, and Sixth Sense is basically a…