Or, as I refer to it, “THAT F**KING BEAR.”
And yes, it’s a *very* memorable scene.

That is a strange argument. You can most certainly like or not like a fictional character on the same grounds you would a real person.

My wife and I are pretty firmly in the not-liking Nora camp. She may be doing a fine job as a character, but that character is annoying as hell.

She’s presented as someone in desperate…

I interpreted it as “at least you still have one Nora.” Which was pretty chilling coming from the guy who killed Barry’s mom.

Yeah, no. I’m 54 years old, saw “Star Wars” (when it was still just “Star Wars”) 12 times in the theater, and have an entire room full of merch. And for my money, “The Last Jedi” is the best “Star Wars” film since “Empire.” I go back and forth on whether it’s better than “Empire.” Shove your “faux Star Wars fans”…

Never understood the hate for Christmas Jones, as if Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist in hotpants is somehow out of place in a series that gave us Xenia Onatopp and a submersible Lotus Esprit. (Mind you, both of these are great, it’s just that they’re also inherently ridiculous and no one ever complains about…

YES to this. “Hereditary” has a couple of great performances, but it’s not nearly as clever as it has been made out to be. Midway through, the movie tries to argue that perhaps it’s all in Toni Collette’s head, never mind that we have already witnessed a number of things she wasn’t around for.

Not only is Mike Brody the son of Chief Brody, but Jaws 3-D also features his other son, Sean. And Jaws: The Revenge brings back Brody’s wife, and literally suggests that the sharks are specifically targeting the family.

Just found the old TZ article on the Internet Archive, and I’d forgotten one important detail. The bigot describes Nackles as having a dead white face like a corpse, but the real Nackles taunts him thus, “And you almost got it right. Not quite, but almost.” According to the script, Nackles “slips back the hood. His…

Twilight Zone Magazine published an article about the “Nackles” affair back in the day, including Ellison’s original script.

The original short story “Nackles” was about a bullying father who imagined an anti-Santa Claus (pretty much like Black Peter or Krampus) and spread the legend far enough that he brought the…

Agreed, and it’s largely because of this that I’m baffled that it’s received such high praise. Toni Collette’s performance is excellent, but by the time Annie’s mental illness is revealed, we’ve witnessed various events—unseen by Annie and/or Peter—that confirm that the cult is real.

I met him once at PBS’ annual meeting. He was the final speaker of the multi-day event. Often, celebrity speakers quickly vanish backstage following their presentations, but Fred stuck around. And normally, those of us in attendance rush off to the closing reception or to our dinner plans, but a lot of us stayed too.

I don’t know if I’m exactly a “Batman Forever” apologist, but I honestly enjoyed it more than “Batman Returns.” The latter is a bloated mess with too many villains and too many competing plots. It has cats licking Catwoman back to life and penguins performing a goddamn Viking funeral. Yet “Batman Forever” is the…

Yep, it’s the same sequence of traps used in the deleted scene that was reinserted into the TV edit and (I believe) the Donner Cut.

And Reign spun herself through the ground into that corridor, same as Superman did when breaking into Luthor’s lair.

Same here. I live in the hometown of the freakin’ University of Illinois, and our single Borders is the *only* store selling a wide variety of new books. There’s a campus bookstore for textbooks, and a couple of place that sell used books, but otherwise it’s Wal-Mart, Target and Meijer.

I’m with you. I enjoyed Burton’s first Batman film, and my wife LOVED it—mostly because of Nicholson’s Joker. Both of us were excited by the trailers, and I truly thought it would be one of my all-time favorite movie experiences.

NARRATOR: It was not.

What the reviewer sees as “magical, dreamlike logic,” I saw as utter…

Lots of statuary on Naboo and Coruscant, a huge relief in Palpatine’s office, various decorative elements in Cloud City...

That cold open confused and disturbed me, not only because I know nothing about the “Bachelor” incident it referenced, but because the past couple of weeks appear to indicate that Mueller is investigating much more than obstruction. I was like, “did something happen I haven’t heard about?”

“The Rocketeer” has never quite worked for me and I’ve cannot understand why. Not only was I in my mid-20s when it was released, but I had long been into movie serials and pulp adventures. It was in the dead-center of my wheelhouse, and I was excited about its release...but it just fell flat. I tried watching it again…

White guy here, and yeah, it was uncomfortable to see myself in the actions of Rose’s family members. (Hey, I really would’ve voted for Obama a third time; I’m 53, and he’s by far the best president in my lifetime.) That’s part of what made the movie so great: it didn’t take the easy road of making the villains…

White guy here, and I absolutely would not have felt fine with a “more realistic” ending. Besides, for about half the running time of the film I already had been thinking, “This is gonna end with him shot by the cops.” It was nice to have that expectation subverted. Watching the last act of “Get Out” with a live…