It’s readily available on torrent sites, in VHS-level quality. I watched it maybe a year ago. It’s...a complicated viewing experience. By today’s standards, it is very racist. But you can also see that the filmmakers were trying to be quite progressive by the even-more-racist standards of the time in which it was…

I used to spend way too much time tracking the development of film projects online (back when that was still a niche thing to do), and I remember there being a ton of hype around a Superman vs. Batman film to be directed by Wolfgang Peterson. It seemed like it was just about to be greenlighted, and location scouting…

This. Last spring a surge knocked out a modem, firewall, and 2 switches via the Ethernet/Coax (modem took the surge through the coax, Ethernet carried it to the rest of the gear) in one of the offices I service. Office had surge protection and power conditioning, but no protection for the non-power lines. Modem,…

Put the flour in a mesh strainer (think screen door, not pasta strainer) and shake it over your mixing bowl until all of the flour passes through. It’s all about breaking up clumps and getting more air into the flour.

For high-heat cooking like stir-fry, try picking up some rice bran oil from your local Chinese or Japanese grocery store. It has a completely neutral flavor and a smoke point of 490-degrees. Trader Joe’s briefly carried it, but dropped it a couple years ago, unfortunately.

Fortunately I get off easy in this category. I cook as much as possible using cast iron cookware, so I just use a steel chainmail scrubber. When it gets dirty, I just toss it in the dishwasher.

For a moment I was confused and thought that the new Candyman film’s plot was going to be a reimagining of Sleeping with the Enemy, and now that is the only Candyman remake I want to see.

One of my dad’s college friends was killed this way back in his 20's. Trying to pull a truck out of a muddy ditch. Ball broke loose and went straight through the windshield and the face of the guy in the driver’s seat.

This. Consent is a concept that isn’t restricted to just sex, so it’s easy to start that part of the education really early.

They should replace the word “love” with “trust” and the same lesson gets learned but without the extra emotional pressure.

I love his performance in that movie. He shaved the mustache, yet somehow became even more gruff and badass.

Since this article is about a young actress and Oscar category fraud, I’m surprised they didn’t use Hailee Steinfeld in “True Grit” as one of their examples. She’s the film’s lead, is in nearly every scene, and still ended up in the Supporting Actress category.

Could be an error in translation. Ebert’s reviews were syndicated to other publishers, some of whom used a 5-star system for their film ratings instead of the Chicago Sun-Times’ 4-star system. As such, Ebert’s ratings would be adjusted by the host publication to fit their 5-star system. My local paper did that, and it…

Same here. Maybe it varies by locale, but at the 3 locations nearest to me the fries are always soggy and undercooked, and come either with almost no salt, or so over-salted that the salt forms a solid crust on the outside of the fries.

Been great for me when casually browsing, but wildly inconsistent speeds when downloading large files. Their Chrome plugin is a great way to use a VPN with ChromeOS, though.

Nutritionally no real difference between corn syrup and “real” sugar, but they do react a little differently to high heat.

The real tragedy is that Disturbing Behavior was actually a pretty great sci-fi movie until the studio cut it to pieces and added reshoots to make it more in-line with the Scream clones. I remember watching the deleted/alternate scenes on the DVD and thinking “Holy shit, why was any of this stuff cut out?!”

Worth…

Go to Stroud’s Oak Ridge Manor location. Get there an hour early. Be glad that you did.

The weights are just tiny silicon beads. The blanket has a bunch of sewn rectangular pockets that each contain some of the beads, so the weight distribution is even. It’s safe to wash (on the gentlest cycle you can), but ideally should not be put in the dryer. Better yet, there are number of duvet covers made…

The weights are just tiny silicon beads. The blanket has a bunch of sewn rectangular pockets that each contain some…

Threats don’t work as well for me. Believe me, I tried. Bribery is still the best option for me.