You can’t please everyone, Joe.

It’s just burned sugar! I’m not going to let BIG CANDY sell me something I can make on my own!

One way to find out. Anyone up for a road trip? Sorry about the smell, but it’s a lot cheaper to fill up all those gas cans before we get to California.

“Lacking the ability to distinguish words” as badly as someone who conflates “i.e.” with “e.g.?”

Now I think I’m the one creating misunderstandings: it’s not that I think a movie’s overt political expression is important, it’s just that I don’t think politics are separable from any facet of life. Every choice that everyone makes at any point has a political dimension, and if the person making that choice wasn’t…

Yes, I do believe that. The purpose of a review is to let you know whether you’d enjoy a movie; the reviewer’s opinion need not align with your own in order to do this. I’ve read plenty of one-star reviews of dumb comedies where I’ve ended the review thinking, “that sounded pretty funny, I should watch that,” and…

That D’Angelo review sounds to me like it fulfilled the basic critical objective of a review, though obviously I’d have to check the review itself. But it explains what D’Angelo disliked about the film in a way that allowed you to decide that, despite his dislike, you might find the documentary worth seeing. It’s…

The difference, I think, is that we have much more of a shared (and certainly less controversial) consensus on what makes good filmmaking

It probably helped that Gilber & Sullivan had done so much to establish talk-singing within the English theater tradition.

It is the ultimate movie to put on in a kids’ play room, where the kids can have several other things to do, and every once in a while, if they want to, they can look up at what’s on the screen and watch for a few minutes. There will usually be something going on that’s reasonably entertaining, and it won’t require…

Part of any act of criticism is a sorting out of what works and what doesn’t. If a critic talked about how My Fair Lady or Mary Poppins feel overlong today, for instance, or that the artificial-looking sets work well for the musical pieces but detract from the parts where dramatic acting has to hold our interest, I…

Username/comment synergy is off the charts.

*plenary

I guess when it came down to the wire, Marchand didn’t want to take a lickin’.

At times it tries for the absurdist hyperrealism of Lynch—at a morning meeting of the sheriff’s department, Martin sits in silence as his boss leads everyone in a chant of “Fascism!”, then busts out a ukulele

When did he win that? The year before Jennifer Weiner published her first novel?

Wow, I can’t believe you think Sparks is the hero of the story here.

Yes, I absolutely want to see every weird and unexpected facet of Lewis’s world in this series. That’s one of the things that makes the books so great, how bizarre and unexpected the supernatural intrusions can sometimes be.

It would be hilarious if the would-be assassins turn on the drug lord, and the authorities use their testimony to arrest him, and the drug lord essentially ends up going to jail because David Ortiz stuck it to his wife.

Curses! Foiled by the free market again! That’s it, I vote for socialism.