Hardcore movie fans are a demanding bunch. The performances must be jaw-dropping, the cinematography groundbreaking, and all the other tiny little pieces that make up a production perfectly in place before everyone will agree it was okay. […]
With movies as with all human bodily creations, they can’t all be winners. In fact, some stink bad enough to make you wonder what God was thinking with this whole “humanity” thing. Whether it’s Hollywood propaganda, […]
When asked why he loves cows so much, Gary Larson once said, “I’ve always thought the word cow was funny, and cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.” He […]
When you forsake a life of physical exertion and devote yourself to scholarship, you spare yourself certain dangers. You probably aren’t going to tear your ACL, for example. You also likely won’t get athlete’s foot […]
Bop on over to Redbubble looking for Christmas comedy gifts and you might come across this gem, a Jay Leno T-shirt that looks like a particularly alarming MTV promotion from 1984: Even more disturbing? Jay […]
Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire director Zach Snyder has never been a particularly popular figure among the professional film criticism community, but his recently released Netflix sci-fi epic gives the amateurs the opportunity to […]
Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire director Zach Snyder has never been a particularly popular figure among the professional film criticism community, but his recently released Netflix sci-fi epic gives the amateurs the opportunity to […]
Who among us could ever forget maybe the most iconic movie athlete of the 1990s: Buddy “Air Bud” Framm. You could try to argue that he has a rival in Michael Jordan and Space Jam. Sure, Jordan […]
Music is a movie’s unsung hero (okay, it’s sung a good percentage of the time). Without a score, everyone would be sitting around in awkward silence, sniffles and stomach gurgles painfully amplified. But it goes deeper […]
Slot machines are a fool’s game. Everything at a casino is a fool’s game, unless you visit with the assumption that you plan to lose money, but slot machines have the added problem of not even […]
It’s a bona fide Christmas classic. It’s the one where Chevy Chase uncomfortably lusts after a young woman for absolutely no reason. It’s the movie that features four SNL cast members and stars Mae Questel, the voice […]
We’ve been making movies for a good century or so at this point, so we’ve pretty much caught on to the standard formula. Good guy enters into conflict with bad guy, good guy and bad guy fight […]
Just like The Room is so hilarious because Tommy Wiseau didn’t set out to make a comedy, many of 2023’s funniest moments weren’t exactly intentional. You never have to look far to find silly stupidity in […]
Over the past month, Generation Z has spent an inordinate amount of time dunking on one of their fallen heroes, the controversial stand-up star Matt Rife. Little did they know that the first kid to put Rife […]
If you claim a writer has never been good enough to emotionally attach you to a character so hard that their inevitable death leaves you almost as devastated as if a real friend had died — […]
Though most Simpsons characters could hardly be described as “well read,” the series itself has made many meaningful contributions to the written word — like how it came up with an alternate ending for Little Women. The world […]
This post is brought to you by the letter “G” for Gabagool. There is, perhaps, no pair of TV shows that are as universally celebrated as they are completely dissimilar as The Sopranos and Sesame Street — except, maybe, for The […]
It’s safe to say that animals don’t have it particularly good these days. Honestly, being any part of the natural planet that isn’t “a human” is not great generally. If you’re really, really lucky, you’ll be cute […]
Determining George Carlin’s best and worst jokes is a fool’s exercise — with 15 HBO specials, 20 comedy albums and countless talk and variety show appearances, how does one single out a solitary joke as […]
There are two kinds of people: People who think everything can be divided into two groups, and people who think this is an oversimplification. There are additional kinds of people as well — namely, people […]