Does the son of Paulie’s Robot also appear?

Yeah I was really conflicted about this movie. Looks great. Some wonderful sequences, both those that exactly mimic the source and those that break from it in ways that effectively shorthand some convoluted material (seriously, did someone else direct the title credit sequence?). I’m glad the Night Owl fight was…

Just follow the recipe verbatim. You will doubt yourself; it seems like it will never work. “That’s too much chocolate. Gross.” But then it cooks for hours and comes together and it is so much more than the some of its parts. Cook it with someone who also likes cooking and divvy up the duties so you don’t get…

Years ago, I made the recipe for mole from Rick Bayless’s first cookbook. It’s 26  ingredients, four pages of instruction, and it took my three days to make. It’s one of the most labor intensive things I’ve ever cooked. I can see why it’s traditionally a communal effort, since I was flying solo here. I foolishly…

I’ve requested Cat in the Hat a couple times for viewer request month for WHM, so this was sweet, sweet vindication. CitH is one of those movies where you’d need a whole series of episodes just to analyze the layers upon layers of awful it contains. They didn’t even touch on the fact that the two kids actors were…

I’ve tried watching it three times--including opening night in the theater--and have never made it through awake. I don’t know what sort of ASMR signal it sends out but I am out like a light about a third of the way in. 

My daughter is a huge fan of the first movie, which means I’ve been roped into seeing it several times. I’ve disliked it more and more every time, largely due to Redmayne’s offputting, wormy performance. He’s a complete non-entity: he reacts to everything the same way, he doesn’t have any growth or development, he’s a…

So they hired and paid Benedict Cumberbatch money, only to saddle him with an unrecognizable American accent, thus rubbing him of his defining, Cumberbatch-iest quality: his low rumbling voice. It’s like when Robots hired Ewan Macgregor as the lead, then made him have an American accent. I’ll never understand doing…

Love that he called out the “recorded in a gymnasium” quality of sound for Disney movies from the ‘60s. That’s always bugged me, even as a kid. 

He doesn’t just cap the guy; he blows his face CLEAN OFF and the cop is all “PUUNNISH-ERRR! GET YOUR ASS IN HERE!”

There was a beach version of the Juicy Fruit commercial that pubescent me remembers better: during the “pull it out” lyric they cut to a, um, vivacious blond woman pulling her shirt off slowly with her bathing suit underneath. 

Yeah I was one of the Internet Nerdz who got mad that Ledger was cast (Jude Law is RIGHT THERE, GAW!!!), and then promptly shut my mouth when I first saw him in the teaser. 

LEX ALEXANDER TO DIRECT NEW SONY SPIDER-MAN REBOOT

When I saw TDKR I went in cold so I was totally expecting some kind of Harvey appearance, but nada. 

Two weeks ago I said Tom should have just made this week’s entry a tie, but damned if he didn’t make his case for TDK.

He became persona non grata for a bit there after the Love Guru bombed and then that scathing story about how difficult he is to work with, so it might have done a number on him. 

*dies of acute British overdose just reading that name*

This is very similar to my all-purpose vegetarian curry as well.

I’m convinced Brian Blessed didn’t need a costume for his role in Flash Gordon. He just showed up on set dressed that way, because that’s how he always dresses.

I’m not quite as horror averse, but I did avoid a lot of the big horror movies as a teen, particularly the slasher genre: I’ve never seen a Friday the 13th or a Nightmare on Elm Street, for example, and I don’t really have the desire to.