Would she leave me for Steve McQueen? Sure. Was she one of the best pieces of ass I ever had? Yer also damn right! 

Should I have produced this movie? Hell no! Did it get a bunch of Oscar nominations? Oh yeah! Did I marry the leading lady? Yer damn right!

We have to accept, for instance, that Barrett’s uptight rich-guy father would disown him completely for marrying an Italian Catholic girl, which seems pretty low on the rebellion scale. 

It was fun laughing about this until it struck me that there are literally tens of millions of people for whom this is some real, no-bullshit, truth bomb cinema, then I just got sad. 

“Compassionate but somewhat ineffectual”.

I dunno, I feel like South Park gets a bit of a bad rap because it confronts political issues so directly, while a lot of shows that are much more regressive get a pass because their politics is never made explicit. For instance, I can’t think of a show pitched to young people that shilled harder for shallow…

“Cartoon causes fascism”. I swear this is just as bad as the “video games cause gun violence” argument. And then capping it off with “likely unintentionally.”

A couple points: It is never confirmed that Cliff killed his wife. It’s left up in the air. He’s sitting there with the harpoon gun and his wife is drunk and stumbling to get up as the sound of a wave crashing up against the back of the boat happens. Hard cut. Obviously, Cliff’s story is that he didn’t kill his wife,…

Reshooting the season with “competent writers” would only be addressing part of the problem. They’d already long painted themselves into, if not a corner, at least a place where a single 8 episode season (even with longer episodes) wasn’t sufficient to wrap things up. I was fine with Dani’s heel turn in concept, but…

When people complain about Stranger Things being an easy nostalgia cash-in, I get it. For the most part, it’s too integral to the show’s identity not to be true. And you either have no interest in this, or you accept it and are in for the ride. Coming into the third season, I was feeling a bit of fatigue. For as large…

I’m really impressed with how they ramped up the body horror and the gore this season. It is a pretty huge leap from past seasons without quite pushing past the boundaries of what feels appropriate for Stranger Things: ‘Yes we’ll melt children into goo to create our monster’s body, but we’ll only show it happen to the…

“But... Tammy Thompson? She’s such a dud.” I’ve never loved Steve Harrington—easily my favorite character in a crowded ensemble—more than I did in that moment.

His body may have died in 2017, but his vindictive, childish, aggrieved-victim spirit lives on

Has any star had a run comparable to Mary Poppins and The Sound Of Music in back-to-back years?

(Coincidentally I have to change trains in Salzburg this weekend, as I’m heading from Stuttgart/Germany to Ljubljana/Slovenia - After reading this article I’d ordinarily have been tempted to maybe stopover and do the Sound of Music tour or something, but it is so oppressively HOT!! I'm only interested in rushing from…

Maybe this is a fair statement about Whedon, but I don’t think it’s really fair to insist that someone who engaged in a heterosexual relationship before ever considering (or allowing themselves to consider) the possibility of a homosexual relationship is bi forever, if for nothing else on the basic principle of…

It’s almost like Tim Story doesn’t understand the basics of, um, plot narrative...tale telling.  

and Tim Story has never made a single good movie

Greil Marcus’ “Dead Elvis” is worth reading on this subject. A lot of the popular imagination of Elvis as a dumb, racist hillbilly comes from one single source: Albert Goldman’s 1981 biography, which was a bestseller and figured pretty prominently in the public’s view of Elvis in the 1980s.

The original series appeared to be based on the non-existence of self defense in court.