Category: Features
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Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (2018)
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Read more: Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (2018)How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) was a delightful 26 minute long Christmas Special that ranks near the very top for Christmas Movie excellence. Any remake of this masterpiece that is longer than 35 or 40 minutes is destined to run into trouble. It is inevitable that the 55+ minutes necessary to make a full-length…
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NFL Week 10: Halloween Is Not Quite Over Yet Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 10: Halloween Is Not Quite Over Yet EditionReady to talk some NFL football? Great! Me too. Here goes: *ahem* FUCK Tucker Carlson. My God, the Fainting Couch Repairman’s Union are probably calling guys who haven’t worked in years. It wasn’t just the usual charlatans, either. One expects the generally-worthless corporate media to react like the sheltered, rich cowards they are, and of…
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The Old Man and the Gun
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Read more: The Old Man and the GunThe Hole in the Wall Gang has been replaced by the Over the Hill Gang. Robert Redford, even at age 82, has lost none of his charm and appeal. The Old Man and the Gun is based on the true story of Forrest Tucker, who just could not stop robbing banks and then breaking out…
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
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Read more: The Nutcracker and the Four RealmsOhhhhhh, dear. A couple of weeks ago, I spent the better part of eight days wandering around the various parks of Disney World. The average temperature there this time of year is low-to-mid 80s, but we were lucky enough to experience low-to-mid 90s because climate change is fake news. Toss in some legendary humidity and…
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NFL Week 9: Our Democracy’s Last Chance Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 9: Our Democracy’s Last Chance EditionSooooooo. How has everybody been? Yeah, okay, I was a little on edge last week, and it came through on the page. Can you really blame me, though? The body count went from 11 to 13 as I was trying to craft jokes about a guy sending 14 bombs to people because his pretend boyfriend…
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Hunter Killer
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Read more: Hunter KillerNot much below the surface. We are almost into award-consideration season, as movies like A Star is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody start. We are also almost into the holiday movie season, where all of the remaining blockbusters of the year stomp all over those award-chasing films. But, we are not there yet, which is why…
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NFL Week 8: Bomb ‘Em and Shoot ‘Em Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 8: Bomb ‘Em and Shoot ‘Em EditionHere extended before you is the notorious hot hand. See me, feel me, touch me. But for Manning the younger and Odell Beckham Jr. combining for a garbage time touchdown and Saquon Barkley punching in an ultimately meaningless two-point conversion, all the while being scolded from the booth by Joe Tessitore, wed have run the…
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NFL Week 7: They Play Kickball in Saudia Arabia Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 7: They Play Kickball in Saudia Arabia EditionHello again, Ruthless! Hell-O to the surviving members of G.W.A.R.! And a big big BIG HELLO to my new friends amongst the Florida Atlantic University students and alumni who can afford an ISP. Go Owls! Like, literally. Go! Go away and stop emailing me and (oh man I’m sorry bear with me, regulars) stop sliding…
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Bad Times at the El Royale
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Read more: Bad Times at the El RoyaleBad Times at the El Royale 2 hours 11 minutes, R for Tarantino-Style Gun Play (with comparable levels of blood splatter) Fair Value of Bad Times at the El Royale: $4.00. Its a solid choice as a streaming rental, solid without being particularly distinct, entertaining enough. Norman Bates, Travis Bickle, The Manson Family, and Nixons…
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NFL Week 6: 1.4 Billion Chinese Don’t Care Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 6: 1.4 Billion Chinese Don’t Care EditionOne of the crazier things about gambling as a hobby is the duality of emotions that come with the territory, so to speak. Sometimes you catch a break and you’re on top of the world, hugging strangers and tossing black chips at the stickman while the dopamine and adrenaline go flooding into your brain stem.…