I bet he wishes he had a pair of magic bracelets so that he could repel stagflation!

Give it up, Mel Gibson.

I don't have kids, so maybe this affects my opinion, but I think it's fine to have some superhero movies aimed at teenagers and adults and some aimed at the younger set. (The criticism I think you could level at SvB is that it's less aimed at adults than it is aimed at teenagers).

I know the internet consensus is that DC's movies are too dark and grim, but I'm all for WB trying to differentiate their superheroes from Marvel by making them a little darker. The problem with Superman v Batman wasn't that it was too dark. The problem was that the basic motivations for most characters were ill…

I'll preface this by saying that I'm not much for musical theater. But listening to the soundtrack made me think this was "hip-hop" made to appeal to bourgeois whites who don't really like hip-hop. I've heard so many people claim that the soundtrack transcends its potentially disastrous single sentence description,…

"The project is being spearheaded by Ivan Reitman, director of the 1984 original—which is reassuring"

As a kid I was always confused as to why the cartoon Ghostbusters looked nothing like the live action Ghostbusters.

I don't think I've ever made it through an entire game of Monopoly. The thing gazangas forever.

So Billy Corgan and this dude have to be kicking it on the weekends. Maybe there's a secret society of conspiracy obsessed 90s alt rockers.

Good. Now the Terminator knows who to kill in order to stop this obnoxious musical from ever being made.

*waaaaahhhhhhhhh* "I wanna see da aliens!" *waaaahhhhhhhhh*

At least her whiny scientist boyfriend's still dead.

Have we reached peak Western?

During the summer, I usually read a lot more genre focused novels. I just finished James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere and I moved onto The Last Unicorn, because the cartoon is underrated and I haven't spent much time with fantasy and I want to try the genre out.

He was always a welcome addition to any film, whether he was the lead or had a smaller role. Green Room is one of my favorite films of the year, and he brought a necessary grounding to the film's extreme situation. The movie works because it make you think about how you might react in a similar situation, and in large…

As with anything, the novel might grow on me the more I think about it. I guess what made me slot it below The Black Dahlia is that the two plots don't quite fit together as nicely as they could. Ellroy has to do backflips to tie up the serial killings with the commie investigation. Still, there are some great twists.…

Ten free tickets and ten $2.50 vouchers. I'm fucking rich, people!

Since Finding Dory made about a gajillion dollars this weekend, I wonder if Andrew Stanton's trying to figure out a way to leverage this success into a John Carter 2.

"Some of us have work to do."

Sounds like Rivers Cuomo finally hit puberty.