Stephen Frears' understated chronicle of the week following the death of Princess Diana, is an astonishingly humanizing character study of both Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II, highlighting their own flaws and their own strengths, all in a remarkably effective, yet no doubt primly British manner.

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Director Ryan Coogler reinvigorates the beloved Rocky franchise with this unabashedly populist and inspiring film, which manages to not only provide a wonderfully respectful and heartfelt farewell to Rocky himself, but also provide us with a new name to root for in that of Adonis Creed.

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I wanted to share with you guys a little something different today, to celebrate the fact that I’ve made it to the 160th blog post. It’s a music video, but this time...it isn’t a PMV.

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Rating Scale:

12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws
8/10–a great film with numerous flaws but not enough to ruin it

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Six years ago today, Peter Parker of Earth-199999 is fresh off of his debut during Captain America: Civil War and is preparing for his school's homecoming. Sadly for him (and luckily for us), his duties as the wall-crawling, web-slinging, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man become complicated when he goes up against his first major bad guy: Batman the Vulture!

Fourteen years ago today, the Autobots once again confront the Decepticons, along with their enemies' founder: Megatronus Prime, the Fallen. Meanwhile, Sam Witwicky discovers that the Autobots and Decepticons weren't the first Cybertronians to visit Earth.

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Sixteen years ago today, the classic war between Autobots and Decepticons came to the big screen in a whole new way!

Well...that was a total waste of my time.

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Scene Rating Scale:

9/9: Flawless! Outstanding scene!
8/9: Great scene! Totally Rewatchable!
7/9: Pretty good. Not as perfect as I expected though.
6/9: Decent. Doesn’t ruin the movie/episode.
5/9: Mid.
4/9: Pretty bad. One of the weakest scenes of the movie/episode.

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My TV Show Rating Score:

5/5: It is an awesome show!
4.5/5: it is a great show albeit not perfect
4/5: It’s a good show with minor flaws
3/5: It’s overall okay/guilty pleasure
2/5: It’s bad but not awful
1/5: Look, up in the sky! It’s super bad!

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I present to you now a thread in two parts. One was written by Daniel Angster at Media Matters. The other was written by me and teaches A MOST IMPORTANT LESSON.

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You know, it's rather obvious by this point where this review is going to go.

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So I decided to watch what many say is an underrated Tarantino film, his low-key ode to Blaxploitation and so far only adapted work, Jackie Brown, based on the novel Rum Punch.

And I thought it was pretty damn good.

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Dear lord above on the glen this film is bad.

1995's Rob Roy is a sluggish, two and a half hour bore fest that drags itself along, driven by a horrifically idiotic and badly put together plot, and acting that, with the exception of John Hurt and Tim Roth, is monotonous and bland.

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"Common Ground" may have been written to mirror the situation of its guest stars as well as with them in mind. "Sparkle's Seven" may have been a fitting tribute to the 5 actresses that did a lot to make the show's main characters as endearing and entertaining as they have been over the years. But they are, in the end, behind-the-scenes stuff that might not be instantly, aggressively obvious within the episodes alone (okay, Sparkle's Seven clearly feels unique when watching it; point still

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Grading Scale:

A (fantastic episode)
A- (an excellent episode with at least one flaw)
B+ (a great episode with a couple of flaws)
B (a good episode which still could have been better)

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My TV Show Rating Score:

5/5: It is an awesome show!
4/5: It’s a good show with minor flaws
3/5: It’s overall okay/guilty pleasure
2/5: It’s bad but not awful
1/5: Look, up in the sky! It’s super bad!
0/5: MY EYEEEESSS!!!

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Is it just me or do movies and properties that don't know if they're going to be any good try to lure you in with peripheral stuff? I mean seriously, how many times have we seen this over the years? From the writer of... is usually a tip off that you're in trouble. Or what about when they put the director or writers name at the beginning? Ladies and gentlemen get ready to scream for "John Carpenter's Roman Fanny Pack," or "Stephen King's Old People in Maine."

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