As an Illinois native, I still can't believe that no one ever calls them out on how absolutely non-Illinois the scenes set in the countryside are. Even in the comments section, nary a peep…

I had somehow managed to avoid this stuff about Searcy. Now I'm just sad.

I agree with this assessment, except I'm the only person in the world who doesn't think it actually works in the end as a thrill ride. The characters are just cardboard. I wanted the dinos to just hurry up and eat the kids so it could be over. Spielberg's heart just wasn't in it—reportedly, he only made it so he could…

27?! Too old?!

Holy shit! Did I just see Brooke tumbling across a beach doing cartwheels and backflips? That's a fantasy I didn't even know I had until I just saw it on my teledevicevision . . . I feel like my brain just exploded!

Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Barron Trump is kind of a c—t, right?

Fuck me. I just posted that clip earlier this week as a response to a friend's post on Facebook. And I'm using Cooper's response to the incident as an epigraph in a ms I'm preparing.

When I think of Reznor scoring a Burns documentary, I think of "Heresy" playing over black and white photographs of angry Dodgers fans when the team leaves Brooklyn for L.A.:

Don't you get it? The writers kept throwing the word "faith" around, so that makes it profound, even if the usage is utterly random and incoherent.

It's not a happy ending because he only becomes "real" or fully human when he selfishly insists on regenerating his mommy for one short day and—oh god, I'm so tired of going over this again and again…

I have an off-and-on personal tradition of watching the double feature of Un conte de noel and Bad Santa on Xmas eve. These films aren't so much "anti-holiday" as "subversive of conventional holiday fare". I hadn't done it in a few years, but I fired up the blu-ray player this year and was quite satisfied. After that,…

I've been living in Tucson for 11 years and didn't know the Arizona Bowl existed until I got to the end of this article. Wikipedia tells me it's only in its 2nd year, so I guess that partially explains it…

For me, at least, the absurdity of it all becomes more funny on repeat viewings. I wasn't impressed with it the first time I saw it, but I thought I would give it another shot when it was shown as a cult classic at the local arthouse, and it clicked with me more the 2nd time around. Now I've seen it 4 or 5 times, and…

Big Weepy Style

If you write the proposal out in your own blood and send it to her, she'll probably take you more seriously.

The best part:

Where's Firefly?

I wonder if Melissa ate her fake baby's fake placenta…

So I'm the only one who noticed that this sentence says that a character in this movie dates her own brother?

"The crowd goes absolutely bazonkers! The champions in red and yellow are the victors, and Harry is spent. The crowd is destroying its throats calling Harry’s name. Harry feels right with himself. He’s down there, a new god who has found a calling. He holds up that Snitch and bellows: ‘I am a beautiful animal! I am a…