I walked into 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' half-expecting to hate it. Instead, I ended up kinda loving it? The stellar production design captures Seuss' whimsy. The film has a soft strain of subversion that I like. And Jim Carrey's giving his all to a role he was born to play. Grinchy goodness!

The Director of White Christmas: So hey, Danny Kaye is a little flouncey for general audiences in 1954. Can the dance department send anyone to take a little of the heat off him? The Dance Department:

I had some idea what to expect going in, but nobody tells you how utterly romantic Paradise Lost is. I'm hard-pressed to think of a more sumptuous or lyrical rendition of married love in the western canon than the way John Milton depicts Adam and Eve within Eden.

I'm new to the series. Is there any Doctor Who lore that covers whether the TARDIS is made out of giant legos?

I both get where this sentiment is coming from and would push back against it a little bit. Not everyone has the articulate inner monologue of a Jane Austen character. But everyone has reasons why they do the things they do and are the way they are, even if they never bother to examine those reasons

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Tom Bob-a-dylan

Do you ever stop and think how odd it is that we have to lick envelopes to seal them? It makes total sense as a way to activate the adhesive and all that. But it's like, "Hello friend! Here's a message of holiday cheer for you! It...comes with a teeny bit of my saliva." We're all freaks, I tell ya.

I wish more modern day brands had the courage to lead their ad campaigns with a message of: "It's not that weird, we promise."

I wish more modern day brands had the courage to lead their ad campaigns with a message of: "It's not that weird, we promise."

The last episode of Tiny Toons confirms, once and for all, that Hamton is a kosher pig! Happy Hanukkah everyone!

You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.

Rob Reiner didn't just make great movies. He made different *kinds* of great movies. His best films differ wildly in tone and style but not in quality. Everything from Princess Bride to Spinal Tap came with a palpable humanity, no matter the tack or genre. What a legacy! May his memory be a blessing

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Let us think about Ahmed El Ahmad, a 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah, and hope his lesson in solidarity is what we take from this horrific event

So long, John Cena. 🤼‍♂️

The best Muppet films for my money are the original Muppet Movie and Muppet Christmas Carol. I don't think it's a coincidence that they both feature music from Paul Williams. His songs like "Rainbow Connection" and "Scrooge" are so essential to the tone, spirit, and ultimate success of those films.

Me: It's probably not worth it for me to look through the cast of Fanny and Alexander. What are the chances I know this slate of Swedish actors from any other project? Me later: THE MAID WAS ANAKIN SKYWALKER'S MOM?!?!

Me: It's probably not worth it for me to look through the cast of Fanny and Alexander. What are the chances I know this slate of Swedish actors from any other project? Me later: THE MAID WAS ANAKIN SKYWALKER'S MOM?!?!

I did this completely by accident, but 'Wake Up Dead Man' and 'Fanny and Alexander' make for a surprisingly well-matched double feature: for the great and terrible power of stories and imagination on the one hand, and for the role of religion and spirituality in our lives on the other.

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Wake Up Dead Man is a great film on its own merits. But without giving anything away, it also serves as a reminder that Rian Johnson was, and remains, a brilliant choice to tell stories within Star Wars.

Live footage from the Florida Tourism Board:

Gonna tell my kids this was Mulder and Scully.

Don't mind me, just figuring out how I can move into the knockoff version of Whoville from the Roku screensaver.

I finished Tiny Toons! The last episode is an homage to It's a Wonderful Life, and I love the fact that only is Buster's guardian angel a pastiche of Jimmy Stewart, but in another nice nod, the angel turns out to be a six foot tall white rabbit named Harvey!

Time to fill in my biggest sci-fi blind spot. I am officially starting Doctor Who! This is my next big watch project, and I assume it'll only take me like thirty years or so to catch up.

Q: What do you call Daniel Craig's stand-in on the set of Knives Out? A: a Fill-in-the-Blanc

2015's 'Krisha' is an extraordinary but emotionally brutal film. It reminded me of 'Rachel Getting Married' in its fly-on-the-wall realism mixed with the bracing truths of fractured families. The movie itself is outstanding, but it was probably a mistake to watch it on the day before Thanksgiving!

This is the closest thing to a Tiny Toons Thanskgiving special.

I wouldn't call the Ironheart series well-written exactly. There's too many tonal problems and rough bits of dialogue for that. But it's...soundly built? Every payoff has a setup. Every major character has a motivation that leads to some kind of emotional catharsis. It's not great, but it's sturdy.

A national bond that transcends race, religion, politics and class is our shared agreement that the Muppets are real. They are real people with jobs and lives. Listen to that crowd screaming. They know they're seeing a celebrity.

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Donald Trump's policies would be horrible no matter who they came from. But moments where he calls a reporter "piggy" after she asked him about the Epstein files are a reminder that the guy's personally just a piece of shit and completely beneath the dignity of his office.

It doesn't bother me that I made this same joke four months ago. It bothers me that the Mountain Goats retweeted this one. Welp, time to find a foreign object.

re: the "meaninglessness of 6-7" -the police code 10-67 is used for reports of a dead body -philly rapper skrilla references this in his song doot doot from feb 2025 -this song gets used in basketball fancams -some kid at a basketball game shouted it as he recorded a tiktok -that tiktok went viral

Ah the joys of looking up classic film references from the Tiny Toons' Halloween special, only to fall down a rabbit hole about one fan impersonating a rival fan while stalking a cast member to escalate their feud on a forum for erotic Tiny Toons fan fiction. The internet may have been a mistake.

Ah the joys of looking up classic film references from the Tiny Toons' Halloween special, only to fall down a rabbit hole about one fan impersonating a rival fan while stalking a cast member to escalate their feud on a forum for erotic Tiny Toons fan fiction. The internet may have been a mistake.

I regret to inform you that I finally tried a PSL and liked it. I expect to be fitted for my oversized "I'm Basic" sweater shortly, and then I'll dutifully report for my public shaming without delay.

I won't deny that even Parks and Rec's cynical-but-goofy view of the world looks a little too rosy today. But whatever its mistakes, framing Leslie Knope as the show's champion -- someone who does tireless, thankless work becasue she cares about her town and her community -- wasn't one one of them.

Kudos to Dan Castellaneta, who voiced not one, but two parodies of Jimmy Stewart's character in Rear Window: one for The Simpsons and one for Tiny Toon Adventures. These episodes aired less than two years apart from one another!

I've done it! I've finally done it! I've created a meme scientifically designed to ensure that no single generation will get the entire joke!

"Actually Romantic" by Taylor Swift is the best song Everclear never wrote. (Though the bridge sounds a bit more like The Toadies to me.) (Yes, I am old.)

I wish I could bottle this expression of pure joy from Michael B. Jordan in Sinners

Director: So in this movie, we need something to symbolize that the President is causing great harm to the nation Writer: What if we had him just completely wreck a whole wing of the White House Director: A little too on the nose, don't you think?

This is an actual passage from Paradise Lost, and I think John Milton wants to wish everyone a Happy Pride: "[T]he crested cock whose clarion sounds the silent hours and th’ other whose gay train adorns him colored with the florid hue of rainbows and starry eyes."

Wife: I've reached the point where I don't know any of the people hosting SNL Me: Who's hosting next? Wife: Miles Teller Me: You know Miles Teller My Wife: Of Penn and Teller?

The Bun Also Rises

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't