We all know that Malcolm X would have told the Seahawks Coach to run Marshawn Lynch on fourth-and-one in the Super Bowl. Sure, Beast Mode would have gotten the ball into the end zone “by any means necessary,” but NFL coaches need advice from civil rights leaders as much as activists and protesters need support from…

Oh God.

Er, what? Even without the sequel, where Bob spent the entire film Mr. Mom-ing, I don’t think that’s the correct read of the text at all.

To me, the best scene in the film was the airplane missile strike. I have never before or after seen a film so effectively readjust it’s own stakes, and say “no, we’re entirely for real about the situation here”.

Okay, I have to disagree with this, pretty vehemently. That was not the message of the film at all.

I’d go even further. It’s not that he won’t grow, though of course he won’t. It’s not even that he can’t, though of course he cannot. It’s that he was put in charge specifically because he won’t or can’t grow.

I think I may have to mea culpa this. I was independently intrigued enough to try and find the article, not only could I not find it, the closest article I could find to what I was thinking of from Slate was entitled something along the lines of “John Roberts Has Never Been Pulled Over”. It’s from 2015 or so.

Admittedly, this interpretation does present a challenge or two to the surrounding text. There’s the scene at the drive-in, during a brief on-again chapter in Sandy and Danny’s endless vacillation, in which Danny comes onto her and eventually overpowers her physically, pinning her down in an attempt to get her to…

It’s one of those films whose badness comes at least as much from context as from content. On its own, and remembering that “autism” is more of a constellation of superficially similar symptoms on a spectrum than a single diagnosis, it’s not necessarily a bad portrayal. My biggest complaint is not so much Hoffman’s…

Yeah, we talked about this in the Toy Story review: it’s perfectly fine to make a fundamentally good-hearted person (or toy, or in this case, a fish) do dickish things in your film, so long as you first establish that he’s good-hearted, and why he or she is doing the dickish things that they’re doing.

Yeah, Biden’s central political difficulty is that he takes his foot out of his mouth only so that he can change feet. If the question was whether or not Joe will compliment how clean and articulate George Floyd was, I can only hope that the Biden campaign has hired someone to tackle Biden to the floor and wrestle a…

Yeah, this is where I point out that, as bad as Trump’s actions are, Trump is not the worst actor at the moment. That honor goes to the Republicans on the Supreme Court, starting with William Rehnquist. Because they are the ones who have constantly hammered and weakened and procedurally nullified the 4th, 5th and 6th…

It would be difficult to describe without the context, but suffice to say that one of the most fascinating characters in the books is Stannis Baratheon. Stannis, through plot shenanigans, becomes one of the strongest claimants to the Iron Throne, but Stannis . . . *sigh* Stannis is a difficult person to like,…

His best cameo will always be as The Underminer:

. . . What do blackface or racism have to do with wearing a facemask? I mean, there are also laws on the Virginia state books requiring everyone to drive on the right-hand side of the road. Does Mr. Falwell only drive if he can paint Gov. Northam in blackface on his car?

Kellyanne: If you can stand in line for a cupcake, you can stand in line to vote

I don’t know that I’d go that far. But at least as far as reality show contestants go, we’ll never see men the same way again.

Heck, Joan Cusack even turned Barry Sonnenfeld’s divorce trauma into something marvelous, even compared to the glorious scene-chomping that Angelica Huston and Raul Julia performed in The Addams Family: