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Because not every blog post can be about Trump or Musk. Sometimes I write about things that AREN’T terrible.

Politically and culturally, we’re in a shitty 1980s teen sex comedy where the bullies think of themselves as the irreverent, propriety-puncturing heroes.

I understand why Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland to avoid Trump but I wish she didn’t give the MAGA mob the satisfaction of successfully chasing her out of the country.

Sometimes you learn something about someone that makes you think of less of them, like learning that they’re a Megyn Kelly super-fan.

Whether you’re a small child or a punk hitting your bottom on heroin and cocaine in the late 1970s, Yo Gabba Gabba! is full of life lessons.

We hope you're hungry for some meaty arguments! 

We never should have even thought about writing this article.

Not all celebrities remain rich and famous forever. Here are five who went from wealth and fame to being homeless street trash.

We were going to share some neat trivia about actress Mena Suvari but since you don’t even know who she is we’re not even going to bother.

You’ve seen all the memes! Now see them all again, this time with punishingly literal commentary!

John Travolta has big fun with a very big performance as a colorful lawman/law-breaker in the appealingly vulgar exploitation movie To Paris With Love.

Trucks. Monsters. Monster trucks. What's not to love? 

Charles Schulz spent four years making It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a live-action/animation hybrid starring his own daughter Jill and Snoopy’s unpopular brother Spike. It did not go well.

I finally got around to seeing 2019’s Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker and it’s so bad that it’s making me re-think my decision to devote my life to Star Wars fandom.

Mismatched Buddy Cop Movie Month begins with the 1990 dud Loose Cannons, a mental illness-themed action comedy about a traumatized cop with an outrageous case of Dissociative identity disorder

I watched the three hour long Kanye Infowars interview so that you don’t have to.

John Travolta has big fun with a very big performance as a colorful lawman/law-breaker in the appealingly vulgar exploitation movie To Paris With Love.

Hey, you know what movie is great? Get Shorty. That movie is SO good.

Shortly before the release of Battflefield Earth John Travolta contributed a voice to 1999’s Our Friend, Martin, an insane special with the balls to ask, “Why don’t 12 year olds from the present travel back in time to save Martin Luther King’s life?”

Nicolas Cage has got Laura Dern hotter than Georgia asphalt in David Lynch’s gleefully bonkers Southern-fried, Palme D’Or-winning Neo-Noir.

Our deep dive into the complete discography of Nicolas Cage continues with a look back at the muddled 1993 inter-racial buddy comedy Amos & Andrew, a maddening heap of missed opportunities and muddled satire.

A perfectly cast Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery are a mismatched buddy team for the ages in Michael Bay’s uncharacteristically enjoyable 1996 action adventure The Rock.

John Travolta continues to scrape the bottom with the deathly dull 2019 racing Trading Paint.

With Shania Twain for some reason?

One of you glorious sadists paid me a hundred dollars to watch a Cosmopolitan-themed Hillary Duff vehicle from 2010 whose hilariously regressive gender politics belong somewhere in the pre-Cosmopolitan 1950s.

One of you wonderful weirdoes paid me to see Champagne and Bullets, an amazing piece of outsider art that suggests Tommy Wiseau remaking Cobra with plenty of Manos: The Hands of God and Miami Connection thrown in for good measure.

My journey through Vinyl, Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese’s ill-fated rock and roll drama continues with a look at its fourth episode, “The Racket.”

You know what’s aged in a really interesting, prescient way? The David Lynch meets Phillip K. Dick 1993 prestige miniseries Wild Palms.

For my Shudder pick of the month, I wrote up the 2019 horror comedy Villains, starring Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Kyra Sedgwick and Jeffrey Donovan

I finally got around to seeing the 2023 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It’s fucking nuts! I mean that in a nice way.