"Webster's dictionary defines genre fiction as…"

I'll be honest that a huge part of my dislike of Midnight's Children was that I read it right after The Tin Drum (which I also hated), and it's the same goddamned book.

Also: "Hey, man, just ignore the article and go straight to the comments" is not a phrase you usually hear on the internet.

Where would you recommend I go next with him if I: enjoyed The Satanic Verses at the time but don't remember much about it; hated just about every page of Midnight's Children; and very much enjoyed his monograph on The Wizard of Oz? I guess that's an odd lineup.

Not the biggest Rushdie fan, and it wouldn't surprise me if this book is bad, but this is maybe the worst review I've read at the site: lazy, irresponsible, and glib. No sense of where this fits into Rushdie's body of work, of its relationship to literary genre (or what genre it really is), of any of the historical or…

I think by that point the iconic slasher villain had kinda done itself in: we'd largely ignored the 9th installment of Friday the 13th a few years before, along with the 7th in Craven's own Nightmare series. People weren't going to see them anymore, because the impossible-to-kill slasher had driven itself into the…

Imbrued is a fine word, but I hear what you're saying. The opening comparison doesn't make much sense*, and the article is… not exactly well-written. I stopped after the second paragraph and figured I'd get better stuff in the comments. Hi, comments!

In some ways "Star Guitar" is the natural evolution from his video for Daft Punk's "Around the World", where each group of dancers represents a different element of the soundtrack: bass, vocals, etc.

every line the character throws out feels like the most sarcastic and insulting (though the child line is already insulting) take down of a crappy sequel possible.

Yeah, I just kinda assumed everybody knew "Tossin' and Turnin'", but… apparently not?

Don't worry: they're panicking over construction on the 405, not zombies.

the now-defunct practice of using a filter to make a scene shot in daylight look vaguely like the middle of the night

suave alter-ego Stefon, who is preparing to walk in a Milan fashion show

Exactly. It's almost a moment of slapstick comedy, which would be lost, and the deleted scene doesn't add any new information.

I'm mentally filling in "crows attack" with shots from Birdemic.

Somehow this is really great despite the writing in individual scenes, which clunks pretty hard. But it's thrilling stuff at its best, and the bureaucratic waffling is making for way more compelling television than it ought to.

Or: his tête-à-tête with Steve Coogan in Coffee and Cigarettes, where he's just a decent, enthusiastic guy crushed by Coogan's narcissistic indifference.

This is actually my least favorite song on the album (and Adz is my favorite of his albums). It's clearly leftover material from All Delighted People - heck, it's the only song on Adz that uses the word "delight", repeatedly - and I don't think it fits tonally with Adz's more narrowly obsessive and religious material.…

It's possible - just going by the NYTimes article.

I wouldn't say "nobody". According to the NYTimes article, 2/3 of viewers now watch the show through streaming services, and the HBO deal means that Amazon and Netflix can no longer stream it.