The Monster Trucks trailer at least inspired "there's no way this is a real movie, holy shit it's a real movie, of course it's getting dumped in January" incredulity. Wild Life's trailer was just painful.
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For me, it wasn't so much the propagation of a lie as it was "is this even a lie we tell kids any more?" The trailer made it seem like the plot addresses the myth's irrelevance, but still, talk about a this-came-from-an-octogenarian-studio-exec concept.
I like that this feels like an actual, human friendship/flirtation, which is why it was the only VMA moment that lasted past the day after.
I didn't watch this, but my favorite line that scrolled across Twitter was something like, "Ralph Macchio named his first son Daniel, after The Karate Kid. He named his second son That's Pretty Much It."
Everyone who was going to see it saw it at the Thursday midnight screening. I had just left my movie theater job when it came out, and a friend who still worked there told me that it sold out almost every show for two days, and then there were maybe 10 people per screening until it left two weeks later.
Djimon Hounsou entering the "we couldn't get Morgan Freeman" phase of his career. A shame. He's still ridiculously sexy and doesn't deserve this.
It was definitely a grower. I saw it in theaters, thought "nothing I'd ever watch again, but a good movie." And now I stop on it whenever I pass it on cable. I don't see the same happening for this one.
Yup. Boxtrolls felt like Laika saying "let's try something aimed at kids in the single digits, and maybe without the super dark, adult subtext/text of our first two films?" And while it wasn't bad and I wouldn't discourage anyone from seeing it based on the visuals alone, I found that I was pretty bored about halfway…
My stance is this: don't punish in perpetuity, because he did go through the legal system, and I don't think he's denied himself all success and happiness because he maybe/probably/did do a horrible thing 17 years ago. But I'm certainly going to think that he's more than likely a shitty person, or at least a guy who…
He said some shitty things about gay people too!
Someone on Twitter correctly pointed out that if Wonder Woman gets good reviews, they're going to blame it on SJWs. Keep moving those goalposts, idiots!
It's interesting that space horror is either brilliant (Alien, Event Horizon) or soul-suckingly shitty (Apollo 18, Jason X). Maybe Roth can be the first director to split the difference? Probably not.
Newlyweds was the show I was thinking about all through this column. While Nick and Jessica didn't come remotely close to having the same kind of problems the Coreys had, the tone of the show had a similar trajectory; it started as a sitcom about a meathead and a dumb blonde, and by the end was a sad document of a…
I think we're good for a few years on video essays about Nolan, Kubrick, Tarantino, Wes Anderson, PT Anderson and David Fincher
Uh, Mitchell Hurwitz wrote for The Golden Girls, which seems a pretty large omission in that first paragraph.
They should release it in December, so we can once again have the humorous incongruity of it being all anyone wanted to talk about at Christmas Eve dinner.
Remember a couple years ago when that news anchor talked about the "jigaboo music" at the Oscars? That's a term I'd literally never heard spoken out loud outside of a classroom. It's amazing, the beyond-dated stereotypes and terminology racists have to trot out to justify their bigotry.
"Full-on Porky Piggin" will also be a crucial puberty turning point for a very different set of lesbians.
There is no fact that gives me more embarrassment than the fact that Vin Diesel in Pitch Black, the first Fast and Furious and XXX served the function of Kevin Costner here: