I’m commenting here 3 years later to say you are spot on. This movie is great, and it is SURELY not a comedy. I watched it on MUBI, and they too incomprehensibly refer to it as a “riotous comedy.” WHAT?! It’s a drama with a few chuckles sprinkled in. And also, it’s great.

Aaron - thank you for the fantastic piece!  

that video is fucking JOYOUS!

I love everything about Judge Gen.  Maya Rudolph is so great

Jeremy Bearimy.  Duh

Counterpoint - I freaking love Brent. Ben Koldyke is killing it.

crude, but apropos. I’ll allow it!

I’ve gone back and listened to “So Appalled,” “Devil in a New Dress,” and “Blame Game,” and ... yup ... still great.  I had forgotten just how great they are, so thanks for the reminder!

Every guest lyric on this album is perfect. Nicki, Pusha, Rick Ross, CyHi, etc.

I’m with you on The Conjuring. I said below (or above?) that while I have to admit it is certainly scary in a classic horror way, FUCK those fraudsters who were actively profiting off the backs of genuinely grief-stricken people. Hard to get behind a movie that deigns to suggest (as the filmmakers do) that any of this…

OH! Thanks for the reminder re. Baskin. SO, so great.

So your hot takes on Hereditary and The Witch are coming from having only watched the first 15-20 minutes?

Terrific list.  Hard to argue with any one of these choices.  The Conjuring pisses me off to the extent the con artist Warrens continue to profit off of their exploitation of others’ genuine grief, but I have to admit it is a fantastic, classic horror movie.  If we expanded the list to 12, I would add House of the…

Seemed more like the stomach, no?  But in all events, not the back!

Precisely my reaction.  The Shining is one of my all time favorite films.  I liked but didn’t love the novel, and had no interest in reading a sequel to that novel (I like King, don’t get me wrong, but nothing in The Shining book begged for a sequel).  ANYWAY, I had NO idea that the book is about a “cabal of psychic…

Love this. Had a similar experience while working at a dump of a movie theater my first year of college. I had a ton of experience as a projectionist but this place already had a projectionist so the stoner manager hired me exclusively as an usher. I literally did nothing for 4-6 hours at a time. Nothing. He would…

That article is fantastic for the simple fact that the moderator had to close the comments when folks kept posting all kinds of goofy New Age-y quotes and links to all sorts of kooky youtube vids.

Everyone is right about Season 2.  I’m being too hard on it ... definitely has its moments early on, and the last episode is fantastic. But that middle stretch ... hoo boy.

S3 IS the greatest piece of TV ever made

I am curious to watch this, but man, FOUR HOURS?! Haha that is ... something.