Dexter should be nowhere near this list. The Good Place deserves to be higher. 

Twin Peaks: The Return deserves a top ten spot over Thrones, at the very least. 

I love that her Raven in TTGo has a secret obsession with “Pretty Pretty Pegasus”.

I was born in ‘71, so I experienced the 70s & 80s classics largely via VHS and DVD in the safety of home. Can’t imagine an in-theatre in-era experience of Alien’s chestburster or Exorcist’s crucifix masturbation.

It seems more obvious than ever that NWH will end with Holland’s Spidey departing the MCU for Sony’s Spider-Verse. Keeping shared rights to the character isn’t narratively workable going forward.

The Dick in a Box one legit made me snarf. 

Like the other two mid-late 70s suspense classics (Jaws and Alien), Halloween is an absolute masterpiece of tension and release, set up by a long, largely bloodless first act built on atmospherics and mundanity. The simplest shots - Michael among the sheets in the backyard, disappearing behind a hedge, standing behind…

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Ah yes. Die Another Day cuddles up between License and Quantum in the stinker pile.

The legit good ones: FRWL, Goldfinger, Thunderball; OHMSS; For Your Eyes Only; Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies; Casino Royale, Skyfall.

So many songs could be vastly improved with this pedal replacing the solo. Imagine this kicking in on Hotel California. Sultans Of Swing. Layla. Bohemian Rhapsody. 

I continue to be bemusedly mystified by the suggestion that the interconnected nature of the MCU is a flaw. It’s not a bug or flaw, it’s a feature. Literally, from the post-credits stinger of Iron Man, it’s kind of the point. Now, some entries do a better job of balancing that feature with stories that function as…

I mean, good for her and all, but I don’t want any version of Soundgarden out touring as a play-the-hits nostalgia act. And Cornell wasn’t just the singer, he was also the primary songwriter, so any version of it carrying on without him will be exactly that. This isn’t Alice In Chains or Stone Temple Pilots swapping…

I’m sure it’s being pointed out, but: Pratt has done two Lego movies as well as Onward… Jack Black has the Kung Fu Panda movies, Shark Tale, Ice Age… Rogen, Armisen, Day and Key all have extensive lists of voice over credits… even Taylor-Joy has two.

I’m a fan of the MCU, and while there’s obviously legit criticisms to be made of individual films, I’ve never gotten the idea that the “house style” that envelops even the more adventurous directors was one of them. I mean, yes, there’s a template, but that’s to be expected of films in a franchise telling an…

After Popcorn Champs, History Of Violence, and Age Of Heroes, the three best columns on this site, I’m down for more Tom.

The dialogue sound mixing in Nolan films has been uniformly bad from Inception on up. It’s like the dialogue, sound design, and score are all mixed separately from one another and then simply mashed together, level overlaps be damned. It’s genuinely baffling in a blockbuster director’s output for such a basic thing to…

Easily, handily, far and away the most talented queen to grace the Drag Race. Exceptionally quick comedic wit. Her Judge Judy in Snatch Game is incredible. Season six was stacked, man. Bianca Del Rio, Adore Delano, BenDeLaCreme, Courtney Act… 

Gene Parmesan!

My first exposure to Brooklyn Nine-Nine was via “stinger ads” on Global, the same kind of 7-10 second clip hits you’d see for a Big Bang Theory or a 2 Broke Girls. So I naturally assumed it was a piece of Chuck Lorre tripe, and ignored it. Only really got on board when they were airing season five. Now one of my…