I used to catch Roger Ebert's televised show back in the day. It used to be that every movie released was screened for critics. And there was a pivitol moment when that stopped. When certain movies just stopped being available to critics because they knew they would be panned into oblivion. I believe one of the first…

DC animated movies are always watchable, but when they periodically get it right they get it SO right. Under the Red Hood, for example, is one of the best Batman movies ever made. The cast! The action! The FEELINGS! It blows me away every time.

I've been making my way through IT for awhile now…it's mostly great, typical King slice-of-life stuff, just following all these distinct kids through their encounter and confrontation with the Ultimate Evil.
That said, man is the character Richie uncomfortable. I get that he's the group goofter, the one who takes…

Adventure Zone?
Came for the idea of MBMBaM playing D&D with their dad, stuck around for how genuinely great the characters and stories quickly became.
The Adventure Zone is my Game of Thrones. I'm just so deep into these characters and this world that was all meant be a one-off goof.

I worry that Retro is one of the few studios that will ever "get" Samus. To me she's like Link, silent and dutiful and brave, and an utter badass as defined by the the player's own actions of making progress and beating challenges and bosses. And while that remains the house style for treating Link, projects like…

Suggestion: Keep A.A. Dowd in storage and break him out to review Cannes and Sundance. Once a month let him out to record a pithy, verbose podcast about how much he hates a particular mainstream movie…y'know, as a goof! Call it "A.A. Downer", obviously.
But don't let him write sincere reviews of dumb, big, wacky…

Doing a backflip on the trampoline.
We'd had it for years, and I regularly did front flips. That was easy. Somehow, front flipping was the most natural thing, but back flipping was this wild, exotic move that neither I nor my brothers nor our friends ever genuinely tried.
Then my bother and I got really into Star…

I haven't seen this particular movie, but I will say that it makes me mad when people automatically equate Massive Flop with Laughably Horrible Movie. Sometimes things just don't click right. Iron Giant, anyone?
Or the time I overheard a coworker say, 'Yeah, John Carter was good…to LAUGH at!' like he was the office…

So now they're just openly admitting that they're giving this rando movie a huge, preemptive Thumbs Up based on its trailers and posters? The site with the biggest film snobs this side of the New Yorker and Le Monde? From these arch film connoisseurs, these attenders of Cannes and Sundance, we get, "The new…

The review mentions it…but man, I was hoping Evelyn got a harder comeuppance than she did. She was an ice cold blooded traitor who defected for absolutely no good reason, then religiously stuck to the decision to bitter the end. There was no making sense of her. "I HATE Oliver because he killed a bunch of people he…

Easy solution? Between Felicity and Mr. T they figured out how to at least disable all the bombs in their immediate area, sparring most of the characters.
But I predict Ollie Jr.'s mom really is dead, and the kid is now a full-time player. There may well even be a time jump, aging him up to side kick level.

Traumatized as she was, I do in fact count Buffy popping up ready and rearing as "alive and well". There was some serious business to work out about her resurrection, but she was back in business right away. Her mind was pretty off, but it wasn't six episodes of Giles re-training her body..she was ready to go from the…

Blegh. Flash pulls a Buffy, and I'm not even sure why. Did they write themselves into a corner? Savitiar-As-Barry was their huge plot twist, but everyone guessed it a long time ago, so they decided they needed amp the drama…SOMEhow?
Because, really, just as anyone who has watched these kinds of shows before knew…

How the hell did he screw up Watchmen?
I don't mean this as a lament, I mean it as a challenge to the many people (this site included) that hold up the Watchmen movie as some grotesque miscarriage of pop culture.
Dude made a line-for-line, shot-for-shot adaption of the comic. It's exactly what any comic nerd ever…

Man, even the most hardcore conservatives have to admit…you have the WORST celebs. At any random lib event you might get, I dunno, Spielberg, Madonna, Seinfeld, Pitt, Pitt-Jolie, Elton John, Stephen King, Tilda Swinton pretending to be David Bowie for her role in the upcoming bio pic (please??)…and what does the…

Typical PC Wikipedia! Contorting the facts!

I was curious about King Shark regrowing his hand, so I looked him up in Wikipedia. In addition to indeed having a healing factor, he's listed as having speed, strength, sonar (like all sharks!), something called "underwater adaptation", and…swordsmanship?? What? Sweet! When do we get THAT power on display? "Yes,…

Wherever Joel McHale is, whatever he's doing, he just got the text and a huge, single tear rolled down his cheek and splattered onto the face of his phone. "Thank you!" he choked out, staring at the screen trembling in his hands. "Thank you…!"

HA! I totally have a pristine copy of Alan Wake for the Xbox 360 just a few feet away. Contraband! Maybe I can retire off it in 40 years. You may scoff, but if you've set foot in a game store in the past 10 years you may have noticed that a non-illegal used copy of Final Fantasy VII goes for like 70 bucks! And that…

Kat Dennings seems to have a weird little cult going. On more than a few occasions I've heard otherwise-reasonable seeming people comment along the lines of, "Yeah, 2 Broke Girls is the worst thing ever…but don't you DARE say anything bad about Kat Dennings! She's the best!" Was she just truly great and spectacular in…