SPOILERS FOR ORIGINAL MOVIE

Every season of HoC, I think "there's no way next season isn't the last one - where else can they go?" And it just keeps coming back. I still kind of enjoy it, but moreso just to watch Spacey and Wright be evil - it left internal consistency and plausibility behind long ago.

Today in Duh.

The only place I've ever seen them outside of stores is on people's desks, so this checks out. I'll take my cube neighbor's Supernatural Funkos over that woman a row over who has eight hundred little Minions on top of her file cabinet.

There was some interesting stuff on Twitter this weekend about how we engage with movies and stars that turn us on (I was thinking about how Moonlight was an incredibly erotic movie, but so few critics wrote about it). And this Ebert blog entry gets into some of this stuff too (and of course, he was a notorious boob…

We've entered a time when "This piece of art shows X" became "This piece of art supports X" became "Consuming this art means you support X."

Someone on Twitter posited that a horror movie about a vengeful queer spirit going after a Mike Pence-type would be kind of amazing. Someone call A24.

I didn't win a pass, but I worked at a movie theater, so if it was a mainstream theatrical release from June 2004 to August 2006, I probably saw it, for the exact reason you listed. "Herbie: Fully Loaded? Why not? Can't beat the price!"

My .5 was a similar scenario, although I loved the movie - I saw Her on a bitterly cold Tuesday night in January, it was me and a group of four people, and they walked out about 45 minutes in.

Three things:

EXCUSE ME, but she had decidedly left her teenybopper image in the dust after making out with Madonna/dancing with a snake/I'm A Slave 4 U, which were all before this. Boy, I hope somebody, etc.

Wasn't the ex-boyfriend the one who was weirdly bloodthirsty, on camera, about getting him convicted, and we all said "wow, he's way too invested and throwing off major creeper vibes for a guy who denies killing his ex-girlfriend?"

See also: Serial, where the ending summation had Sarah's friend agreeing that the case was completely fucked, but that, based on what they knew, it would have been an incredible, hugely unlucky series of coincidences for Adnan not to have been involved with the murder.

Yeah, what all these expanded universe set-up movies (and, to be fair, some of the Marvel movies) forget is that you have to actually tell a story in the movie you're currently making, not just give the audience a series of teasers for whatever's next.

Hell, it's happened three times this year alone - King Arthur tanked, Alien Covenant is underperforming, and Power Rangers did OK, but remember how there was going to be five sequels?

What's strange is that even Apatow seems to have fallen prey to what he created. 40YOV and Superbad are ad-libby and long, but they don't FEEL that way - there's clear plot/comedic objectives in every scene, and in the overall arc of the movie. There were at least a dozen scenes in Trainwreck where I thought, you…

Great Job Finding Something Twitter Was All Over A Month Ago, Internet!

"Stark pressroom photo of Kathy Griffin in tears" is somehow not the weirdest photo taken in 2017.

"This is where the magic happens! (pushes camera away from shot of bed, as if they're ashamed of it despite just bragging about it)"

The meme-ification of Smooth and All Star is when I officially entered my No, It's The Children Who Are Wrong age.