I kind of do want to see a "For Your Consideration" or similar type of article that is specifically about this issue. With the critical, if not financial, failure of so many high-profile adaptations (most recently Assassin's Creed), it really is starting to become kind of fascinating to me why it is so damn hard to…

Help out the non-classical music nerds here. Are we talking about extended passages that are almost note-for-note ripoffs, or are we talking about them being similar because they both employ bombastic orchestral brass, like surely thousands of other compositions have before and after Wagner?

I guess we're using the term "news broadcast" very loosely, but then surely the "nail through hand" incident takes the cake for 2016:

Rich person's Christmas gift to the world is a donation of 95% of their income to charity, because they made $10,000,000 last year and $500,000 is far more than enough to live on.

Horror has indeed been awesome the last couple years. My top five would probably be The Invitation, The Witch, Don't Breathe, The Wailing, and Green Room, although I thought Green Room was a tad overrated.

Thank you. Anyone who doesn't understand the appeal almost certainly doesn't have to do serious amounts of typing for a living. I find it quite hilarious that not only is tactile feedback no longer the norm, but it appears to be considered some kind of insufferable hipster trend now. Saying you can type faster if…

OK, good to know. But doesn't everybody call :) an emoji now though?

Back in the day, we Gen-Xers called these "emoticons," and somehow it didn't fully sink in for me until reading this article that nobody uses that term anymore.

Just my two cents, but what I always find strange is how we laypeople seem to assume that the principals involved can accurately predict the quality of the finished product. Just going off the shooting script, I bet it would be quite difficult to tell the difference between the likelihood of success for something…

Really? Not trying to argue, but I was about to post that it's seems awfully strange that Green Room would get the nod over Don't Breathe. What did you like about Green Room? Aside from the interesting milieu, I thought it was disappointingly straightforward and a terrible waste of Patrick Stewart, who didn't have…

I doubt it, but Kristin Blumreich probably is.

I was going to say yes, except it had a better theme song. But now that I think about it, all four of those had bangin' theme songs.

Can anyone name the first game that used chunky pixels as a stylistic conceit instead of unavoidable limitation of the platform? I'm asking because I have no idea but I find it kind of interesting to think about when the tipping point came. I mean, obviously nobody in 1997 would have been caught dead making a game…

I see now how the travel itself is important to you, and that helps me to understand why your article inspired me. I don't think it's actually the travel that calls to me. It's more the idea of rejecting the traditional careerist attitude, while devoting as much of my life as I can to what I actually do love…

I don't know quite how to say this without sounding insincere, but that is inspiring. I've dreamed for years of doing something like that, but as a musician instead of a writer. In fact, sometimes I think the lack of a retirement plan is the only thing that really prevents me from doing this.

That whole sequence, starting with when he rips the gangbanger's shirt down the middle for no apparent reason, is sublime.

Unfortunately, that trend continues unabated. I really wish full coverage would come back. Accentuates curves much more tastefully, in my very humble opinion. Wait, what were we talking about? 50 Cent?

He was killed in the ring in Houston. By Tex Colorado. You know, the Arizona Assassin.

I had never heard of any of these before, but Monster Factory has got to be some of the most hilarious shit I have ever seen. There goes my weekend.

Can't argue with that.