Maybe it is because these characters look so much like objects that I might see in real life and know to be non alive. Paddington doesn’t bother be at all, but I swear this movie looks like the scariest Twilight Zone of all time to me.

The trailer for Christopher Robin has finally given me insight into the “uncanny valley”. Seeing those obviously non-living stuffed animals moving around and talking and interacting with a live action world gives me the creeps so bad I nearly felt sick watching it in a theater. It actually felt frightening to me the…

Counterpoint: Spike Lee is the American Werner Herzog and one of the most important American artists of the past fifty years.

Not really. Spotify is a giant, on demand, subscription, record store. Once upon a time there were record stores. Even really big ones. I used to fantasize about owning one. If I had, would I have stocked product by an artist whose every act and utterance was morally objectionable? Nope. Spotify has a huge catalog,…

My second worst nightmare is where I’m falling out of an airplane, I’m naked, and I’m covered with ants.

Every single thing you have said about From Hell is wrong. Points,though, I guess, for mentioning that Lost Girls exists. There’s a film adaptation I’d like to see.

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Counterpoint: Bryan Cranston was so boring he ruined everything that could have been exciting about it.

Pthhfffhfft

Deadpool 2

My problem with this is that the kind of people who watch this are going to be middle to upper middle brow, educated, urban people (because it is an indie foreign film- not a lot of Klan guys are into those) and they are going to come away from it thinking “huh, maybe Islam really IS an evil religion. I wonder if the…

Ok. The singer can not, in any way, carry a tune or even give the impression that he is trying to do so. No song they have ever written contains a memorable melody or even a hook, with the possible exception of “Creep”, whose hook is that it is irritating. They never, ever, rock. At all. Nothing in their music would…

My favorite Radiohead memory is the original review of Kid A in Mojo, which I read because in those days I read Mojo every month. They hated it. Called it ten kinds of boring unlistenable nonsense. In other words, it was an honest and perceptive review. By the next month, once it was clear that everyone in the world…

Yes. They are the sushi of rock bands.

Lappin is a French surname. It means “rabbit”. Giggle.

I think this may be one of the oddest comments I have ever seen. Since when is this an issue? Millions of schoolchildren are being deprived of useful knowledge because they are forced to attend hours of Latin lessons every day? The U.S. could finally achieve a truly multilingual culture if only the Latin fascists…

I know this is a nasty thought, but now I’m imagining her, in the middle of sex, doing things to try to make Banner mad.

You must drive pretty fast. It takes me at least five hours to get from Durham to Augusta, and that’s not even close to being “south” Georgia. Back in the day when we had three little kids in the car we could easily spend an hour in a fast food place between everybody going to the bathroom twice and whatnot.

Please, can we keep it down to one ill-informed Quisling post per thread? Somebody already made this argument above. ICE is not our immigration law and not our border patrol. It is an unnecessary exercise in paranoia.

Families with four kids in one car driving back from south Georgia to North Carolina who just want a little time and space to unwind.