I’ve always thought the complaints of “coldness” and “characters as game pieces” levied against Kubrick and Christopher Nolan are weird because both of their movies almost always elicit strong emotions in me, the viewer. I think perhaps one of the strongest reactions I’ve had to any movie is A Clockwork Orange, where…

I think that Stephen King is more like Hank Aaron. Long prolific career, with amazing career totals, and perennial All-Star status, but surprisingly few years where he was the league leader in those stats. Over a 23 year career he is all-time first in RBIs, second in Home Runs, and third in Total Hits. With all those…

One of my favorite of that joke was when his parents were over and his mother answered the door and said it.

Tonight on a very special Roseanne, the Conner family confronts Sharia Law.

George: I don’t get what happened on the date. It was going great, I used my catchphrase, and then nothing.

The hot takes are making me thirsty.

This is a perfect comment. That’s all.

I have only walked out on two movies in my entire life. Halfway into this I thought to myself “it’s so beautiful outside, it’s like the first gorgeous day of the year. Why am I in a dark theater watching one man’s interpretation of God and the universe, trying to understand the improbable and wondrous beauty of life,…

“This Terrence Malick movie needs to be longer!” - no one ever

(gasps, sinks onto fainting couch at the prospect of not using a word for which there are ready alternatives)

I don’t, I was 3.

It’s a ballroom dancing extravaganza featuring the New York Mets.

Nah, that’s just how people were in the 90s. It was a different time.

Also, some of the jauntiest fedora-tippage in all of human history.

I wish I could find it, but years ago in the TV listings, some wicked, wonderful soul gave a summary for The Wizard of Oz thusly (paraphrased): “A woman regains consciousness to find she is in a strange land and has killed someone she never met. She then joins three strangers on a road trip, determined to kill again.”

Nope, you’re legally not allowed to talk about how bad things are if there’s something out there worse. Can’t talk about how you have a cold, because imagine if it were cancer. Can’t talk about police brutality, because hey, there’s still human trafficking. Can’t talk about Miller Lite because there’s still craft…

Chris should have gotten out of the fucking car.

I keep typing “boobies” into my calculator but still no porn.

I thought Young Adult was about perfect in its dissection of Mavis as an arrogant trainwreck who’s the type of person who feels sorry for he ex because he’s (gasp) married to someone else. It was mean at times, but played fair.

Honest to blog, I think some of the backlash against Juno was Cody’s attempt to release new slang and hamburger phones into the cultural lexicon. I still enjoy the movie.