You’re Not Crazy: Hereditary Was a Bad Movie

My face during the first 20 minutes of Hereditary
My face during the last 100 minutes of Hereditary. (credit: A24)

Last night, for the first time in my decades upon this earth, I asked a movie theater for my money back. They declined, and I can have no peace, because the most heartfelt statement of my 2018 will be this: God, I hate Donald Trump. But a close second? Hereditary is a bad movie. Not only bad, but the worst film experience I have ever endured, and I made it through the entire Uma Thurman/Ralph Fiennes AvengersHereditary is a film so laborious, so tedious, so consummately PONDEROUS, I was writhing in my seat with frustration for at least eight hours of this 127-minute movie.

Spoilers below, probably, I can’t tell yet because I’m still furious with this film, so I’m not sure of everything I’ll say.

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Sketchy Saturday: Accidental Stranger Things Fan Theory — Maybe Eleven is a Jedi

Bar sketches

In this week’s sketchy Saturday, Han and Chewbacca ponder the Stranger Things fan theory we’ve all been wondering: whether Eleven is a Force user. (has anyone been wondering that? I wasn’t until I accidentally juxtaposed these two sketches. Let’s run with this notion that she’s strong in the Force.) Also a melange of random bar … Read more

Sketchy Saturday: Hemingway and Poe Walk Into a Bar…

Bar sketches

…and stagger out together, drawn from memory in my pile of cocktail napkins. A couple famous author caricatures here for you courtesy of Messrs. Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Allan Poe. Also, Lit from Indelible, Inc. shows up, just because I love that guy as a character. He was supposed to be some minor villain, but … Read more