Admittedly, about four or five of my articles so far this summer have amounted to, “Gee, they don’t make ‘em like they used to.” And on the grounds that those articles have been hugely popular, with a downright unprecedented readership, I have decided that this week, not wanting to rock the boat too much, you…
Look. We’re all nerds about something, right? It doesn’t have to be comic books or Star Trek; some people are nerds about rocks or numbers or history or maritime law, etc. Some people are literary nerds, and if I’m being honest—which I am required by law to be for a minimum 40% of every article…
It’s [summer month], which means the blockbuster season is now in full swing! We’ve already been treated to such [adjective] movies as [recent movie title] and [recent movie title], so while this year has, admittedly, not been quite as [adjective] as last year, it’s still had us consistently leaving the theater with [plural noun] on…
How’ve you been? Yeah? How’s the family? The daily grind? Good, good. Did you have a good week? Let me tell you about my week. How should I put this? What kind of week did I have? I had the watch-all-four-Lethal-Weapon-movies-in-four-days-with-my-mom kind of week, which may seem long for a taxonomical category of weeks, but…
I would like to preface this article by say that they simply do not make them like they used to. I’m not saying that the lows are necessarily lower than they were or that the highs were necessarily always higher: the quality of movies has, in fact, always been somewhat variable. Whether for better or…
Last year saw the release of Pixar’s fifteenth theatrical film, Inside Out (I’m pretty sure I counted that correctly; fifteen, right?). I don’t know if you’ve seen Inside Out—I don’t even really know who you are—but I saw it and I loved it. Following Brave, Monsters University, and Cars 2, Inside Out offered a return…
“I am confident that someday in the future The Rock, who was once a professional wrestler, will run for president of the United States, and I think that he will win. I have seen with my own eyes the power of The Rock. The Rock is a uniter, not a divider. When the BOP showed…
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