Any historical record of Alexander that exists is a copy of a copy of a copy, same as Josephus’s history or the early gospels. Any archaeological artifacts could have been created decades after the time period in which he supposedly ‘lived.’ And, of course, most knowledge of Alexander that exists was preserved by the…

“Tune in to The Rewatchables as we cover all the films of Ken Loach!”

Unionization ought to be an industry norm, not a weapon of last resort. The Ringer staff might simply be unionizing as a way of guaranteeing that they get a fair share of whatever money the site makes.

I mean, I assume they canceled it for a reason.

Tarantino seems to take lots of obvious joy in “talking about films,” which is actually an entirely different activity than “making films.” I would love to see him re-launch At the Movies.

Mostly I got the feeling he was tired of making movies when he stopped making movies for 6 years.

I feel like Tarantino got tired of making movies after Jackie Brown. Then, he needed money and couldn’t get any more cameo roles, so he decided, “Fine, I’ll make that Lady Snowblood rip-off Uma and I have been talking about,” then it did well, so he made every type of genre picture he wanted to do, and with Once Upon…

In the special features for The Incredibles, they made a 1950s cartoon of Mr. Incredible and Frozone using this technique. Then, to add another dimension to the joke, they included an optional audio commentary of Craig T. Nelson and Samuel L. Jackson playing their characters, commenting on the cartoon:

At the same time, it’s also an opportunity to see terrified MAGA-types run screaming into the woods, some of them begging for their lives as they’re being slowly tortured, some of them trying to spit out one last piece of Fox-news inspired before being ripped apart by a coastal elite’s pack of rescue bloodhounds, all…

If someone’s playing the game blindfolded, they aren’t working at the task with the required level of seriousness, and deserved its death at the hands of a lucky dad.

It’s basically The Breakfast Club if Judd Nelson’s character had a gun, killed the principal, Stockholm-Syndromed the other three characters into raping Emilio Estevez, and then ended the exact same way The Breakfast Club does, right down to the celebratory tone. Not all challenging stories constitute a worthwhile…

Donald Trump probably thinks Green Book is too radical in its politics. The WHITE PERSON is the driver?

Yeah, I feel like the space baby thing is easy to parse when you step back from the film a moment—monkeys find a monolith, it changes them, they become the descendants of humans. Humans find a monolith, it changes them, the first one to reach it becomes a huge space baby. It’s clear that the movie is about the…

I dunno, after all the Hunger Games and Divergent takes on the genre, I think The Long Walk almost feels like a satire of those.

I kind of like Dreamcatcher for how crazy it gets, and how willing King is to kill off characters, but I will never understand why William Goldman, one of the best screenwriters of the 20th century, decided to preserve so much of the dialogue from the book.

As the Bachman books go, I’d much rather have a version of The Running Man that stuck closer to the text, and made the whole thing less of a game show and more of a reality TV show.

Frasier is actually generally depicted as an out-of-touch, well-meaning liberal. There’s an episode in Season 1 where he hates an obvious Rush Limbaugh analogue that his dad loves.

Dicks out for America or you’re a goddamn communist.

I get why your wife wants it that way, though. If you and your date are sitting on opposite sides of the table, one of the two of you will have your back to your wife when she storms in to confront you.

You’re looking at it all wrong, Drew—that little girl next to you listening to Dora at full volume is just giving you permission to turn off your headphones and play your death metal playlist at full volume as well!