Wow. After all these years, after becoming so desensitized to all its absurdity, surrealism, and penchant for non-sequitur, Adventure Time still managed to completely mindfuck me yet again. And not only that, but they ended possibly the single most batshit insane episode they've ever done with some legit drama and…

I second the motion to catch up on season seven; it was clearly designed to be the payoff to all of season six's melancholy and philosophical overtones, following Finn's newfound equilibrium he gained in "The Comet" with an action-packed, lust-for-life swashbuckling ride, mixing the delights of the earlier seasons…

Kubo, from a technical standpoint, is the single most impressive piece of stop-motion ever created, and while it's not the most innovative of stories, it is quite beautiful and moving. Zootopia is an all-round brilliant film: great characters, really unpredictable and engrossing plot, lightening wit, and a level of…

Guuuuuys, again with this? Again with the reviewing the miniseries as a unit rather than episode-by-episode? That's such a stupid idea; Adventure Time clearly doesn't intend its miniseries to be taken as something separate from the main show, so why treat it like something else? Continuing to do this just means…

There's something very satisfying about the fact that when Fury Road came out, some accused it of being short on dialog to a fault, and now it's probably the most widely quoted Hollywood movie since The Dark Knight.

This particular video series actually has a lot of really great insight. And not all of it positive; I'll forever respect the writers for dissecting the uncomfortably conservative, borderline fascistic undertones of The Lion King.

Stealthy. I like it.

Yeah, I can see how it would tick fans of the book off, since it's clearly doing its own thing. I've never read the books, but I'm watching it with my dad, who has. He's been fine with it, since to him, they got the core of Dirk's character right. A core he summed up as "Some people say they're down for anything, but…

Maybe that's it; I've always been naturally inclined to give storytellers the benefit of the doubt and see where they're going with all of this. In fact, since I take it for granted that everything in the story will be cast in a different light once I'm able to see the full trajectory, even without any big twistums, I…

How does the CZ feel about Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency? I'm three episodes in and enjoying it tremendously, so I was surprised to find that the AV Club Basic's reviews are largely mixed-to-negative. Then again, the actual film/TV reviews on this site have been steadily losing me for a while now; I'll…

Aww!

I was at the movies very little this year, but Arrival might be one of my favorite science fiction movies ever, so, that one.

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Eh, that one's not has hard to get out of has some would have you believe: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

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That's my point: you're only two movies off from general public opinion; that's not terribly controversial.

A guy on reddit who made a snarky comment about my album after I submitted it on the Lo-Fi sub a few days ago came back and apologized, saying he had been really high at the time and hadn't eaten all day, and that on second listen he enjoyed the song he had heard.

Son of a bitch.
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Debatable. Maybe February 10th. 1964.

Well, here we are. The last full day of America's existence as a free country. And I have been trying so, so hard to convince myself that that is an over-dramatic exaggeration.