10/10 will be a better surplus second hand wheeler than the Humvee ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That’s ok. We don’t need to take it on the highway. Local surface streets are just fine. 

I dunno, compared to the new “autoplay and stick to the top of the page” unrelated video that nobody asked for those are seeming downright quaint.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Ford needs to do a luxury trim of its Raptor, either King Ranch or Platinum (or both). Like the 911 Turbo compared to the GT3, there’s definitely a market and Ford could sell every last one even at an MSRP of $100k+

“and Trainwreck did for Amy Schumer”

I guess we’re just coming from two different worlds here.

I don’t think either of those change the discussion. A movie is still a movie, even when it’s an ensemble cast. There may be multiple storylines for the different people, as in Love, Actually, Short Cuts or Crash, but each individual or pairing is still on a storyline track. You don’t get to see these characters in…

Overly relying on plot does feel pretty mechanical. But I’ll take that a thousand times over something like Everybody Wants Some or half the Jarmusch catalogue or any mumblecore jam. I appreciate the appeal for some, but I can’t stand that aimless, wandering bullshit. To tie that back to this review/article, I have…

I will admit that my analogy is the kind of “half-awake at 1.30am” thing that maybe doesn’t hold up to rigorous scrutiny in the cold light of morning, but replace “babied” with the rather less-condescending and glib “given an experience that’s worth the time commitment they’re expected to sink into it”, and it might…

Apatow aside, I’m not super fond of the concept of “star vehicles” in general. An actor is very rarely the reason I want to watch a film, and it’s hard for me to escape that these types of movies always seem to be nudging me and saying “check this guy out”. I’ll take a film that showcases the story over the performer…

Most TV episodes introduce and resolve their main plots within the scope of their running time. This is a frequent criticism/complaint about how streaming exclusive shows are sometimes written. So yeah, 4 episodes of TV might equal out to a feature but those are 4 separate instances of plot satisfaction. And weirdly…

This “review” is another example of so called film critics who can’t seem to review a film in front of them rather than bringing in their own inside baseball bullshit.
If you are going to review the movie review the movie.
If you want to write something about Apatow’s career and how he pissed in your cornflakes at…

I have enjoyed a lot of Apatow’s work and I greatly admire his true love of comedy since he was a kid. But no one is perfect and I truly thought Funny People and This is 40 were two of the most self-indulgent, sappy and horribly written scripts I had ever come across. They both seemed like first drafts that needed a…

Carrell wasn’t a star but he was established enough for comedy film fans to know of him when it came out, mostly thanks to standing out in Anchorman and Bruce Almighty in the previous couple of years. (And 11m watched the first episode of The Office a few months earlier - season one averaging just over 5m - so, again,…

I don’t understand this point at all. Lots of SNL cast members don’t get starring roles in movies. And it’s not really in line with Apatow’s similar work. Sandler was a star long before Funny People while Carrell, Rogen, and Schumer were well established and popular comedians and comic actors. Davidson, as far as I…

Am I just a fake liberal, or am I wrong to question the pairing of small c-conservatism and the values that can, and often do, come from familial relationships for people of all political stripes? 

First thought:

The issue with longer films (and why it differs from binge watching TV episodes) is that 90-100 minutes is about the natural limit for a human to concentrate on one thing. So if you go beyond that, you’d better have something really compelling to say or you’ll lose your audience. Older, longer films would often have…

Apatow once responded memorably to this criticism by complaining that audiences think nothing of an extended Netflix binge, but somehow chafe when asked to sit for 15 or 20 minutes longer than expected for a feature film.

When his comedies crest the two-hour mark, they commit the monstrous sin of self-indulgence. Apatow once responded memorably to this criticism by complaining that audiences think nothing of an extended Netflix binge, but somehow chafe when asked to sit for 15 or 20 minutes longer than expected for a feature film. I’m…