That’s a fair observation about Prue. I just feel Paul has sucked so much of the oxygen out of the show, I’d really like to see it without him. He was always best in small doses, but now that he’s gone all “Oops! All Crunchberries” the balance feels way off.

Noel Fielding is definitely the best part of the sadly inferior remodeled GBBO/S. Short of bringing back the original team, they need to get rid of Paul, replace him with Prue since they both fill the same bad cop role, but she’s less insufferable, and get someone a bit more gentle to balance out the critiques (which…

This is finally out, huh? I coveted this one when it was first announced, but I’ve all but forgotten about it in the lengthy, oft-delayed interim. Reading this has pretty much snuffed out my remaining interest, given the gameplay description doesn’t do a thing for me. ...So gorgeous, though.

This preview doesn’t make the movie look at all interesting, but Liam Nelson does a fine job imbuing fortune cookie-level wisdom with an appropriate gravitas. 

You really went for the snotty comment trifecta; calling out a typo, disputing the premise of the entry, but not deigning to offer an explanation.

While I wouldn’t quibble with the description of Janelle Monae’s lyrics as nuanced, what I enjoyed most about them is that they hit with the subtlety of a baseball bat.

I am the very model of a trident pedant commenter

I enjoyed The Ballad of Buster Scruggs a lot. The old west seems to be the best place to stage the Coen Brothers full-on late-career commitment to nihilism. But none of the stories topped Buster’s. The surprisingly shocking violence both working with and against the unbelievable black humor was as fantastic a feat of…

I’ve talked to my friends about my difficulty watching movies with endangered/hurt/killed children since having a family and when I told them I was eager to see Hereditary, one friend wouldn’t let me until he could text me the details of the scene first. It was very sweet. Even so, watching it, it was harrowing, but…

If the entertainment industry were really run by a Jewish cabal, they could simply get Rabbi Loew to breath life into one of those giant gold statue decorations to host the show. Golems never age, grow weary and can tell endless Bruce Vilanch-penned jokes impervious to shame.

I learned today that I will take a dozen deliberately shitty high-concept John Wick cosplays over one technical marvel Bumblebee cosplay. 

They flagged my illustration of a fire-breathing chicken!

Yeah, none of them should end up with anybody they met in the books. I mean, I understand that first true love thing is a fantasy as compelling as the spells and flying, but everyone deserves better.

Enamel is non-porous. Just wipe it down and it’s safe to use!

That dance scene is the best part of Deathly Hollows (either movie) and I suspect it existed solely to show off what fantastic chemistry and craft Watson and Radcliffe had cultivated. Still none of them should have ended up with their first High school relationships.

Absolutely. Ron was never written beyond “reaction shot/sad trombone”, but Grint wasn’t testing the edges of that much on his own.

I received my first email ever last week from someone who wrote me specifically to tell me I was a bad writer. It struck a nerve because my most recent round of reviews were not my strongest work by a long shot. But then I had to remind myself of what it must be like to be anything other than a white, cis, straight…

We’ve been rewatching the Harry Potter movies with our daughter and it’s so fascinating to watch as Radcliffe and Watson really came into their own to grow and develop as actors and Grint to just kind of... not. Nothing against him, he seems like a self-possessed and thoughtful fellow, but his Ron schtick pretty much…

The idea that content notices is preventing a generation of milk babies from being the hard-nosed commandos this world demands is the crustiest old Andy Rooney bullshit I’ve heard in a long while. 

Lord knows I was. The scene where everyone is walking to the party where Scott meets Ramona and no one wants to go or see all the same people, but they’re going anyway because what else are you supposed to do? is spot on.