Admit it, you and I get a special little thrill out of seeing any version of Superman in the flesh, flying around lifting things and saving people. He's beyond iconic—he actually is more something like a modern Hercules. Go ahead and be jaded and declare Superman boring and outdated. I bet you still feel at least a…

I love Gorillaz. They've been being totally weird on their own spectrum of weird for almost twenty years now. And after almost twenty years, they're still just so unforgivingly weird. They have freaky music to make, and a freaky story to tell, and it's our roll to just to go along for the ride.

The screen went WHOOSH, and I said, "No, not a flashback…no, please, no more flashba—-NOOOO!" Where even are we in the timeline of flashbacks? Oliver needed at least a year or two of survivalist isolation to grow that giant beard from the pilot. So how much more military/international intrigue do we have to endure…

For a long time now I've considered the Flash to be DC's Spider-Man (or vice-versa?) A red-suited goofster with silly villains who are often based on animals (Grod, Rhino), elements (Weather Wizard, Electro), tricksters (Mysterio/Mirror Master), or blunt copycat versions of the hero (Venom/Carnage/Zoom/Reverse Flash).…

Is this the real life? Is this just gabba hey? Caught in a landslide, no escape from the KKK.

I still have the Netflix DVD mail service, and it's often a better deal these days than streaming. 2-3 good, brand new releases you might want to actually watch every week, verses unlimited Trailer Park Boys and Pocahontas 2.

Am I just naive, or isn't the buying/selling of human remains illegal in most ways? Otherwise, couldn't some eastern European lithium mine tycoon just declare, "I want the skeleton of Elvis, and will give his great grand nephew 500 million dollars for it!" And then the nephew says yes, and Elvis gets dug up and…

1) DS9 was pretty great, but was so damn dark and dower and relied heavily on the kind of episode-to-episode arcs that are the norm now, but make it almost impossible to just jump into a random episode and enjoy it for what it is (which I think should be a defining trait of Trek).
2) Voyager is scifi TV fun! Sure,…

My Star Trek Opinions, 3 ways. 1) Next Gen is by far the best in every way and always will be. 2) Voyager IS underrated. 3) The new movies are just terrible in every way always will be.

Roald Dahl also wrote a lot of pretty dark, messed up fiction for adults, too. "Man from the South", for a example, is a Stephen-Kingy story about a tourist who gets locked into a bet with a stranger over the tourist's ability to light a Zippo—the stranger's Cadillac vs. the severing of the tourist's fingers. The…

Meanwhile, the absolutely exact same movie has already been available in every imaginable way at one time or another over the course of the last 40 years or so.

Word.

I also think it will get better in seasons to come. This was clearly a weird, specific project, one where the creators were throwing a lot of things at the wall without much idea of what would stick, Thanks to the popularity that has ensued, I'm sure they have a pretty good idea of what worked and what didn't, and…

I didn't really click with this show as much as a lot of people seem to have. It was conceptually sound, but had so many glaring flaws and missteps in execution, Barb being a big one. Why was the dad presented as a really major player only to be exposed as a simple opportunist to never have anything to do with…

Pandora is your weird, burn-out uncle with a greasy ponytail and grey goatee. "You like Radiohead, man? That's, like, rock n' roll, right, man? Have you heard of Jethro Tull? Maaan, they're gonna blow your mind! This is the real shit! Just like your Stereo Face or whatever, but…but REAL. Hold on, I think I still have…

Pandora…my old nemesis. When I want alt rock and up vote a single Black Keys song, I get Black Keys very literally every other track, no matter how many times I subsequently down vote them just to get something fresh. "Didn't like the Black Keys, huh? How about some Black Keys??!" Change to World Music station, but I…

Man, did Suicide Squad kill the AV Clubs parents in an alley? Because they really have it in for this movie. Like, in a personal way. "Why did this and that happen in a silly summer blockbuster???" is such a pointless, arrogant exercise. Why didn't Skynet send the Terminator back to the point when Sarah Conner was a…

Disney loves it's live action these days. I pity the poor screen writers who are tugging at their collars, cartoon-style, upon being ordered to adapt Aladdin. "It's 2016, so don't offend anyone in the Middle East…ANYONE. None of them. Also, try to avoid the whole Robin thing…it's just too sad. Too soon, too sad. So…

I just don't get the proposal for the first live Pokemon movie. Why THAT?? Of all the infinite ways you could adapt Pokemon…Why THAT?? Is the head of the Pokemon Company having his children ransomed if Detective Pikachu doesn't get made? Is Morimoto threatening to disclose the dark LSD history behind Mario unless his…

Ten years ago, maybe, but these days? Blah. Lemme guess, they're both really crude, really stupid, casually sexist (in a funny way!) and probably have a hilarious scene where they both smoke opium and yell a lot while trippping. Movie written!