There are a couple types of bad movies. Well, 2 types really. There are movies that are simply bad — bad acting, bad plot, bad dialogue, bad effects, or simply an overall melange of badness that seeps through every aspect of the film. Then there are bad movies that are incurably bad, but still manage [...]

Happy Non-2009! Congratulations on surviving with sanity (presumably) intact! O brave new year that has such capacity for craziness in’t! (With apologies to Aldous Huxley, and Shakespeare for that matter.)
Given that we’ve moved on to a new decade, the editors at The Awl have been running a fascinating “End of the ’00s” series by [...]

Oh well — at least I’m under Brian Williams and Katie Couric:
Notable Quotable Awards for 2009: Nominees for Long Live Camelot Award
UPDATE: Turns out I won this shit. At this point, nothing to do but laugh. It’s what Mary Jo would have done! (Have a blast with that one, right wing.)

When I’m not ranting about slasher movies or toddlers in stripper heels, I do occasionally do some legitimate sit-in-an-office work (though it still involves writing and futzing around on the Internet, so it’s tough to really call it “work” — somehow that term seems reserved for, well, stuff that sucks). Anyway my new gig is [...]

Horror movies are honest. They let you know exactly what they are from the get-go. Slasher flick? Gonna have a guy (usually) who stalks and murders a bunch of teenagers. Zombie film? You’ll have a smattering of undead making a play for any non-zombie life form, while the still living work to outwit them.
These [...]

I’ve written a lot about climate change. I’ve also worked and written for the authors of Freakonomics. So I’ve gotten a few requests for comment on the huge controversy surrounding the climate change chapter in their sequel, Superfreakonomics, which goes on sale today.
I’m not a climate expert by any stretch of the imagination. I [...]

Every once in a while I’ll read something that restores my faith that writers are important. Something that’s so true, so authentic, and so universal that it needed to be written, and read, by as many human beings as possible. This is that in a nutshell.
I listen to conversations. A lot. Hell, one of [...]

Aaaand so for this week’s Horror Chick we delve into the vast and rarely original world of sci-fi horror. With a dig at Tucker Max thrown in. ‘Cause Lord knows it’s been a while since that sad scrap of humanity has been mentioned on this blog.
UPDATE: The witty and smart Lindsay Robertson has the best [...]

Writing on the Internet is funny. You can cook up a post in a couple hours and watch it generate national controversy, then spend a month reporting an actual edited piece (on a far more controversial subject) and watch it barely splash the surface before sinking into Google-able obscurity.
Such was the case with this [...]

Alright, so admittedly I fanned the flames on purpose this time with this. But it’s important that the true bullshit vortex be ID-ed and brought to light: A small segment of society is exercising undue control over the larger conversation in our news media. And this is harming our freedom of speech, our national discourse, [...]