I don’t get it. Aside from the one security guard, Slings and Arrows was almost entirely white…

Respect. When I read Il Signorino his DC Kids’s books, I always change “Shazam” to “Captain Marvel.” I guess we’ll’ve t’have a talk about intellectuäl property rights when he learns to read…

Agreed about Clancy Brown. I’m fine with the Batmen from The Batman, Brave and the Bold, Young Justice, and Beware the Batman (even if the latter two were pretty much doïng Conroy impressions), but always come back to Conroy, and wish Brown had the same always-coming-back-to-Luthor consistency.

It is. And I think the mos toyetic thing I’ve ever seen. And that’s saying something!

I agree with his order, which agree is hard to get your head around when Gorey writes picture books. But I read Danny the Champiön of the World, both Charlie books, James and the Giänt Peach, and Matilda when I was in preschool (so, had them read to me mostly) and loved them unequivocally. I read Snicket in my…

I understand that impetus. I listened to the books back-to-back-to-back (Tim Curry narration + an original Stephin Merritt song per book = perfection) until I caught up, and then read each one in a day as they came out. I’ll never forget the day I got The End on hold at the library, taking it back to my house and…

When I was little, I legitimately thought the Ghostbusters movies were horror movies. I guess considering that the dominant horror franchise at the time was the cheeky Nightmare on Elm Street*, that’s not too surprising.

I worry that that other movie with the same twist ending (i.e. Fight Club and in some ways also The Machinist and also that episode of American Dad!) might make people less eager for an adaptation. I love Basic Eight, but Adverbs (while obviöusly not for everyöne) is my absolute favorite.

In The End, they definitely play around with whether the good guys are good and the bad guys are bad.

It makes sense to leave room for 10-13 to breathe if they’ve got to cram it all into three seasons, but I really wish in that case they’d skipped #4 and done 1, 2, 3, 5 with this season. Heck, I didn’t even think the movie was rushed, so they could’ve easily expanded it a bit an done 1, 2, 3 in the first three hoürs,…

The first and second SOUE books actually might be the best, as the formula was perfect out of the gate and there was still enough left to do with it to make a great second one. There were some great refinements on the formula (Ersatz Elevator), reversals (The Carnivorous Carnival), and some cool stuff once it was just…

I’d still prefer he’d loosened up his prohibition for Series of Unfortunate Events: Now with Triplets! (or whatever) than for Dumb and Dumber To. [edited]

During ads? Totally fine, right?
During trailers? Grey areä, right? Like, tolerable to respond to a text but that’s it?
Obviöusly feature is sacred ground. Can surreptitiously check the phone to see if it’s from the baby-sitter only because getting up would be even more distracting.
Credits? Credits if a majority of…

I’ve also witnesses that teenager-musical-chairs-then-kicked out phenomenon, at our nation’s largest cinema, located (of course) in Hamilton, NJ.

Heck, I took my three-year-old to the PEM last week because they’ve got an exhibit on footwear, and he’s totally a junior foot-fetishist so I thought he’d at least look at the shœs. Nope. His first non-touch-museum experiënce and he literally walked around saying “I don’t want to be here…” on repeat.

I care about it for one reason: when Mark Hammil guest-starred on The Muppet Show he revealed that he and Luke Skywalker are cousins. That’s ludicrous, right? Because Luke Skywalker lived a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, and cousins have to have one or two shared grandparents. But in TPM, we find out that…

I thought you were gonna say that Maul read Obi-Wan his fortune using tarot cards, then when Kenobi woke up, the former Sith apprentice was just a pile of bones…

I guess I wasn’t into Star Trek yet? I know I watched some of TAS on Nickelodeön when I was little, and was completely obsessed with TNG by the time it ended in 1994, but despite that it’d been airing for two years by summer 1989, I think I’dn’t discovered it, and thus Star Trek as a whole yet.

Yeah, agreed. One reason those are great is because they’re a two-minute read, and in reälity, they tend to hue a lot closer to the established villains than the Nolan interpretations.

There were kind of a lot of them in there, weren’t there. Apologies to the sensitive. Can you imagine that it used to be worse? I cleaned it up a lot once I became a linguist, taking out all the stuff that made no sense. Don’t ask for examples: I’m deeply ashamed.