"Her Best Friend's Bottom" is like some grand comedic relay race, running from the "Captain Subtext" sequence ("Cleft?") to Steve's rant on cushions ("Couches were designed by clever scientists to protect us from scrapes, bruises, and, of course… Daleks!") to Susan just deflating it in one line ("What possible use…

"I have doobie in my funk," which I believe is a reference to the Parliament Funkadelic classic "Chocolate City."

The version I read went straight for dark comedy, which I suppose is… better?… than playing it for horror.

Sadly, I feel like i'm coming down on this side of the fence. I read the script way back in the day, and while I may have been feeling extra PC that day, it felt like it tripped all the old cliches of living with schizophrenia. Oh, you hear voices that tell you to kill. Oh, taking the pills makes all reality feel drab…

"Siskel and Ebert have panned [the Immaculate Conception] as 'poorly conceived' and 'sloppily executed.'"

"So, is this like The Ring, where we die 7 days after watching this?"
"No, this is WAY more potent. I give us 30 seconds, tops."

There's this strange sort of spectrum of Annie, when you take it as a whole (and God, that's probably the most pretentious way I could frame this). Most people know it through the musical, which is about striving for a place that loves you, even as the strip turned towards wild adventure for decades. It's like if the…

The general impression, from what I've gathered, is that Jackie, the accuser in question, could not conclusively remember details of that night - which frat house she was at, who was involved in what happened to her, etc. When she realized she might be fuzzy on the particulars, she asked RS to take her out of the…

OMABP 2: The Blackening

Meanwhile, on How Did This Get Made?, Paul, Jason, and June are joined by the guys at the James Bonding podcast to discuss Roger Moore's final bow as Bond, A View to a Kill. While it's not my choice for Worst Bond Movie, everyone really brought their A-game, to the point that I really want to check out James Bonding.…

Yeah, there are also some elements of the novel that make it very of its time. In the novel, the main issue of the time displacement of Colin Farrell's character is that he ends up in '80s New York, in all its fervid, Death Wish-captured splendor. There's a whole narrative throughout the thing of the city that was,…

"I thought we'd all enjoy that one."

Yeah, that was a bitter point of the movie. The guy's power is "I don't die," but they absolutely had to go out of their way to kill the black guy.

Hey, I'm sure after you post the fiftieth iteration of "No, you're wrong" with absolutely no fucking context or explanation, I'm sure it will drive through into our soft, peat-like brains.

It's the assumption that a man understands, on a more fundamental, intellectual level, something that a woman is much more likely to experience in everyday life, and thus able to explain to them from a position of detached authority why it's not THAT big a deal. E.g., "You shouldn't be so offended when someone calls…

The art looks cool, but… is it weird that I've seen enough "scarred grunt gets back from Vietnam, has seen some shit" that I recognize when the scars all seem to fall in the same pattern? Aside from the fact that the guy's a chimpanzee and everyone else around him is some type of primate, it feels like any other…

I actually got to do a term paper for a college class on why Die Another Day was a bad Bond movie. The main point was that it was trying to be too many new things at once - not only was it trying to compete with the Bourne movies, it was also trying to compete with xXx (another oft-forgotten but fleetingly successful…

Yeah, I think the major point there was that, if you rode the train long enough for the trope to turn around into satire, it just became unfortunate in another way.

"Countryside: the act of murdering Piers Morgan."

Sometimes you get the intersection, like Hemlock Grove, Season 1. "Wow, this dialogue is ridiculous, and WOW, they really seem to hate sexually-active women, don't they."