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Our daughter and youngest just turned two recently. It made me think of something. The Simpsons has always been big, essential really, in...

The Olympics are over, but there's still a good story to tell and you'll have to pretend this was more timely. This year, for the XXXIII...

When I first saw ads for House of the Dragon, I was profoundly confused. Who wants this?!? My reaction shouldn't be surprising, the...

Until very recently I knew the name Burt Reynolds, but to be honest I think I'd only completed one of his movies, the original The...

Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France during World War II. It was the largest...

After we finished The Hobbit I was determined to regularly keep reading better, longer books to our firstborn. The next book seemed...

Maybe you've heard about the new show from FX (and Hulu) called Shōgun. It's a mini-series, meaning one season only, and is an adaptation...

I recently finished reading The Hobbit to my five year old. It was easily the longest, most complex book we've read to him in totality (I...

Dune: Part 2 (2024) is in theaters now and I made sure to see it in IMAX opening weekend. It was great fun to attend an event movie with...

It's cliche right now to say that this or that movie couldn't be made today. There are cases where it's true, however, though it's...

Sometimes with movies (or whatever else) it's easy to wonder if your recollection of something was perhaps an extension of a particular...

As a kid Spider-Man my favorite superhero. I liked whatever cartoons he appeared in and, as a teen, loved the Sam Raimi live action...

We haven't watched a ton of TV the last year or so, and what was likely our favorite show may be a bit of a surprise. Jeremy Clarkson is...

For my birthday my wife gave me The Fall of Gondolin, a new-ish (2018) book credited to J.R.R. Tolkien but put together by his son...

John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) is now classic horror, but seems a whole lot less known than the various slashers with too many sequels...

A month or so ago, soon after start of school year started I think, I introduced our kids to Raffi, using YouTube videos. He's now a huge...

Recently I (re)watched s1 of HBO's Rome and mostly decided against writing about it. Then, for a few days at least, the online discourse...

Much like Moana and Frozen, see those two previous posts, my kids (two this time) have become obsessed with Disney songs and have been...

10 years ago a friend suggested making a list, selecting a favorite movie from every calendar year. It's a fun idea, and one that...

A little while back I saw an article about NBC potentially getting back into NBA coverage after a 20 year hiatus. To be honest I'm not...