I just watched the Animaniacs parody of Duck Soup again yesterday while I was babysitting. The Anvilania national anthem (Sung by Anvilanian national treasure Perry Como) remains the best as well. "Anvilaniaaaaaaaaa….Anvilaniaaaaaaaaaa….Anvilaaaaaaaaaaaaaniaaaaaaa."

Cool. I'll be marathoning the nuke pretty soon after abstaining from watching it live; I'm crazy excited. I can take Adventure Time airing at such a snail's pace because the episodes tend to be more self-contained, even when they touch on big plot stuff. SU is so directly focused on its ongoing story that every…

Usually stomach. I'm essentially never comfortable lying down, so I just try to stay in the position I will be least inclined to move from until I lose consciousness.

The government dudes are somewhat intimidating, but the fantastical element isn't (Intentionally, at least).

Alright, I finished Stranger Things.
I think I finally figured out why it's so good, and why the fact that it's so derivative just never bothered me: it's not a throwback, it's a fulfillment. The tone it achieves throughout is one which the numerous works it draws inspiration from always tried to hit but never quite…

Well, Life is Strange is the only time I've ever been compelled to watch Let's Plays, because I thought the story looked really neat but wasn't interested enough in the gameplay to bother buying it. So, I've essentially only experienced it as a TV show anyway, and I thought it was extremely cool and had great…

I haven't been to the movies much, but The Nice Guys was just unbelievably fun.

I…I just don't know. I will defend Shyamalan's first three films as great genre movies for the rest of my life, and I've always hoped that he could get his ego in check and make something interesting again. But I've been hurt so many times…

I know, I know. No worries; you'll get around to it when you get around to it. Honestly, I'm not sure it would play better binge-watched than eeked out bit by bit; Disney's airing schedule was cruel and unusual (40 episodes in four years), but it did let people obsess over tiny clues for a good long while, making the…

Oh, duuuuuuude. Somewhere in the future, an immensely enjoyable televisual experience awaits you. Season two is when everything happens. Like, it would take me ten minutes to describe the storyline of Gravity Falls and one of those minutes would be spent on the (Admittedly still excellent) first twenty episodes. …

Gravity Falls really might be favorite fictional town of the past several years. The atmosphere is just so tangible; it's somehow simultaneously very comforting and slightly unnerving. The cast and locations become familiar and beloved, but the darkness creeping beneath the surface gets more and more prominent,…

I would give it another try. It's honestly far from the bleakest film out there; I get more depressed watching Se7en. It's also committed to being an engaging and suspenseful thriller while laying bare the darkest parts of humanity. It depicts an evil that is almost beyond comprehension, but it depicts it as evil,…

Nice! Honestly, Adventure Time should be shown more often in schools; it's excellent for illustrating various philosophical topics and storytelling devices.

Yeah, weird small towns are a great staple. I feel like they're making a comeback; between this, Gravity Falls, and Welcome to Night Vale, not to mention the upcoming Twin Peaks revival.

Okay, if the premise of Suicide Squad is that Amanda Waller is all like "Let's assemble a task force of the most dangerous people on the planet",…why are Harley Quinn, Deadshot, and Captain Boomerang on the team? The fire-wizard I get, the witch-chick I get, the man-crocodile I get; but an acrobat, a guy with some…

I'm quite frankly astonished at Winona Rider's performance. I've always considered her one of those people who can almost act, but never actually managed to be convincing. I've always had a pet theory that Heathers was written the way it was in order to establish a world in which Winona Rider's way of speaking seemed…

Which is better: the music in Stranger Things, or everything else in Stranger Things?

A friend of my dad's told him this story recently: years ago, he and a friend of his decided to tramp around America for a while, Kerouac style. They made it to southern California, and were thumbing for a ride; a beat-up old station wagon covered with left-wing political stickers pulled over and picked them up. Our…

I SEE YOU.

Oh glob yes.