hahahahaha this is not their best idea ...  i mean ... those people are weird

I love everything you’ve said here.  The fact that there’s no bully also makes this endlessly rewatchable, I think.

Agreed. I freaking LOVE his delivery in this scene:

Caroline this is a FANTASTIC piece.  Love this movie (and I’m not a teenage girl, nor was I when it was released!)

And he had TWO SHOTS at it! When NYC was blowing up, we knew we had a testing issue. Couldn’t get ahead of it. That’s horrible, and of course the Administration’s response is “not our fault.” Fine, par for the course. BUT, even the most inept Administration, one would think, would say “ok let’s not get caught with our…

I need to revisit this one. I was 17 and worked the projection room at a movie theater when it was released. I’d watch bits and pieces of each movie all day, and would eventually see most of all the movies (really disjointedly, as you might imagine). Quick Change had a fairly short run because it was a dud box-office…

Your favorite mugs make my heart sing. My wife and I have our favorites, and they are equally awesome and ridiculous. Mine is a probably 20-ish year old mug with a Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover. Of Santa. So if we have guests and I use this mug I inevitably get “oh, that’s festive” and “it’s July why are…

“I just don’t want to be bothered again.”

At this very moment, as we speak and as I type this comment, there is a handyman outside hanging shutters on our colonial house.  I immediately cringed and hoped we didn’t make some egregious choice, but all seems well.  Those the blogger shames are REALLY doing it wrong.  

Definitely still holds up. I’d add one more thing that I think makes it a great watch, even today: the chemistry between Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd feels off the charts (to me). I am really pulling for them by the end of the movie. That chemistry is a key aspect of a romantic comedy that can push it from good to…

I’m in the same boat as YesButNo. I can’t answer for them, but I can give you my answer: it’s easy to think of Facebook as kind of a rough straw poll on how the world (or, at least, my little universe) is reacting to and absorbing the crazy things happening around us. I log in to see what the general take is (in my…

I’ve never, ever seen these guys before, but now I love them.  That was great.  And also frightening.  What is happening in Huntington Beach?!

Spot on.  This is a nice add to Kate’s article. 

I think this is a really good observation. Comedies started to move into the “irreverant” mode almost immediately thereafter (think Porky’s, Easy Money, Caddyshack, Stripes).

We must be of the same ... ahem ... vintage, because I too have seen this a million times for the same reason. And I freaking loved it every time! I love the exchange about taking the broom outside ...

Yep. It was so absurd I was HOPING we would find out that most of this shitty story was taking place in Wayne’s addled brain, rather than reality.

Hard agree. This season just muddled along. Had some promise, but this last episode was horrible, just horrible. These guys never actually solved anything ... they just sat with some old dude (who was shockingly still alive) and he told them everything with 20 minutes of exposition.  Cool.  And the episode still had…

spoiler: no moon men.  boring

Sure, you could buy this.  Alternatively, you can move to FL where most of us have central a/c.  And COVID.  SO much COVID!

Great stuff as usual, Tom. A couple other things that I think worked in this movie’s favor: (i) Home Alone was the ONLY Christmas movie and, really, one of the only kid movies released in Nov/Dec 1990; and (ii) it’s direct competition was ... just kinda weird. We are talking Rocky V, Predator 2, Dances with Wolves, Chi…