The one real sour note in Muppet Christmas Carol is the creepy porcelain doll Muppet as the Ghost of Christmas Past. Doesn't work! Shoulda used a real Muppet and given her a few jokes.

People have spoken and they do not want developer crunch, unless it means games cost more than $60, in which case, back to work, prole

The thing I always come back to on this: Good countries, countries that are really well-functioning and on-the-ball, countries that have it together, these countries do not, as a rule, have to shoot their citizens when they try to leave.

I'm generally not a big fan of Kino Lorber, my least favorite among the boutique physical media companies, but their release of Miracle Mile is fantastic, genuinely Criterion quality. Like, 9 times out of 10 their releases are just "Here's the trailer & some semi-related trailers." This one is good!

I just don't think I quite have the level of hate for AI making pictures that some people do. I feel like "using the machine to create a sense of the sort of thing I'd like to see then showing that to actual artists and having them do their thing with it" is, like, quite a good idea?

If you're putting out a physical media release of a film that includes multiple versions (e.g. "International" and "Director's Cut") you have a moral and, in a just world, legal obligation to include a feature that answers the question "So what's the deal with all these versions?"

Your detailed and nuanced expertise is no match for my simple heuristic.

The thing I love about bluesky is that it's a perfect simulation of being in a college town's anarchist bookstore. Just constant rhetorical games and bs. "Oh you think it's a happy holiday? Well I haven't been happy since I found out about Rosa Luxemburg's death" awesome no notes

Oh, some amusingly negative filmgoing experiences! First, watching a poorly-attended matinee of Last Christmas. So, the movie has a Twist. It's a very bad twist. And the audience was mostly bored to that point. Then there's a montage that reveals the twist. The rage was PALPABLE.

Oops! This movie has naked tits that I neither knew about nor expected - a mortifying experience for parents and their post-pubescent children alike.

The last movie I remember seeing alone with my dad at a theater was The Devil's Advocate when I was in high school. That was... a considerably more awkward experience

Seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark with my dad. Seeing Star Trek V with my dad. Seeing Oliver & Company with my dad. Seeing Roger Rabbit with my dad. Seeing Land Before Time with my dad. Seeing Princess Bride with my dad.

I'm always dubious of a study that's like "oh if only voters hear this context-free block of text instead of this context-free block of text they'll support us"

As both a lawyer and a nerd for constitutional law, it pains me to have to say this, but: If you're arguing that Dems should make fighting the Supreme Court an election issue, you should know that if you know all 9 members of the Court you are in a vanishingly small <1% portion of the population.

So... Kinda looks like Metroid Prime 4 and Octopath 0 are both bad? LOL.

It is striking the degree to which children's stories, toys, and media generally attempt to teach kids the lesson "Bears are adorable and cuddly and a little bit silly and definitely your friend," when you consider that real life bears are absolutely not that.

this is why i will never give up my circa 2010 dvd boxset of THE WIRE. i don't give a shit about high def for older tv shows, give me the original aspect ratio (need to get my hands on an old simpsons boxset for this reason as well)

Anime Christmas Content: 1. Tokyo Godfathers 2. That One Episode of Urusei Yatsura 3. ??? Suggestions?

Reminder to add TOKYO GODFATHERS to your Christmas movie watchlist this season! Grateful to have given (English, dubbed) voice to the trans anime icon, our beloved Hana, in this Satoshi Kon holiday classic from @gkids.com! Watch it for free on Tubi or rent it on AppleTV!

Stranger Things Season 5

Today I learned there was a Rush Hour 3.

Count your blessings. @theonion.com

All you peons who've never worked in journalism don't understand! The reporters don't write the headlines! The headlines are written by elves! The elves live in the forest! We must not enter the forest! We must not speak the True Name of the Elves! We must not criticize their mystic works!

My favorite genre of prestige television is "We cast a murderers row of world-calibre comic actors in a show with no jokes."

Hmmm, I'm running low on disk space on the hard drive I'm using for my home media server, but I still have a bunch of Dario Argento to add. Looks like it's time to make room for giallo.

It's wild to discover American sitcom adaptations in other countries. Like British Mad About You. You don't have to pay license fees to make a British Mad About You! Just make a show about a married couple that hates each other, but set it in London instead of NYC and noone will know the difference!

I requested the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe from the library, expecting the animated one (as that is the bibliographic info they put in the online catalogue entry) but they sent me the Disney one my rage is incalculable.

Wait... Huh? What? Huh?

In retrospect, seems like a bad move for Republicans to run the villain from the second half of season 2 of Twin Peaks for governor in Virginia.

Was thinking of taking my kid to her first movie. Want to pick an early weekday showing to minimize chance of disturbing others. I see there's an 11:30 matinee of a cartoon called "Chainsaw Man." Would that be a good first movie for a three year old?

German word for the feeling of pain and disappointment one feels when one sees a link to a "hilarious political rant by Jon Lovitz," only to realize it's actually Jon Lovett. "Lovitzschmerzen."

"All the teenaged girls on this show dress like school teachers. Is that how high school girls dressed in the early 90s?" -Mo watching Twin Peaks

I hope the remake of Dragon's Quest VII makes it longer.

City Hunter has amazing aesthetics, but the protagonist is a super tough hang.

My daughter actually requested a black & white Mickey Mouse cartoon! She stayed engaged the whole time! When it was over she turned to me and said "While later cartoons displayed unparalleled artistry and mastery of form, early Mickey Mouse displays an anarachic energy never subsequently equalled"

Perhaps the reason Gamers are bad is because video games are bad for your brain.

I got literally angry with rage at the FF trailer in the theater when they kept coming back to the "it's clobberin' time" runner without paying it off. Yeah, I'm sure it'll pay off in the movie, but it's not good enough to be worth the wait. Either pay it off in the trailer or don't put it in.

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Remember when the government commissioned cartoons to explain the benefits of public health spending and vaccinations? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiOz...

Oh no! A democrat did a heroic thing! And an elected senator, no less! But don't worry: The Onion has made up some imaginary Democrats who reacted shittily for you to get mad at. Phew! Your hatred of the Democratic Party (and your mom) is safe!

I... Think that the creator of this comic is attempting to make the same point that all of the people angry at the comic are making. Like, it's satirizing the "The curtains are fucking BLUE!" position. The cartoonist is saying "Oh, so do you think 'The Raven' is about how Poe fucking loved ravens?"

So I've been reading some short stories by Flannery O'Connor and I'm kind of surprised these don't get taught (more?) in high school lit classes. Short (obv), punchy, lots of flavor, lots of color, surprising violence, easily susceptible to interpretation. Maybe the overt Catholicism?

There's subsidised public transport specifically for people who disagree with me!?

As the parent of a toddler, I cannot stress how life-changing that 3-k program is.

Related: I actually got polled today! By a legit honest-to-god non-push non-partisan informational pollster! It was a Marist poll asking about my voting intentions for the NYC mayoral race. It even had "are you paying attention" questions like "Select Apple from the following list of fruit."

One thing that has also made people fussy is that their TV shows only have like eight episodes every four years. you need to have some dumb sitcoms on at least once a week so that people feel like there are these consistent things in their lives they can think about that aren't important

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The Criterion Edition of Watership Down, one of only seven animated films in the presently 1282 entry-strong Criterion Collection, contains an interview with Guillermo del Torro that opens with the director complaining that the gatekeepers of art and high culture do not take animation seriously.

Backlash: A Series of Interesting Observations that Add Up to a Reasonably Plausible Argument that Would Have Been More Convincing if They Had Been Paired with Rigorous Statistical Analysis. By Susan Faludi.

A surprising amount of Susan Faludi's "Backlash" is dedicated to complaining about Cagney and Lacey getting cancelled.