The mad clowns of rap rock are a lot smarter than they let on.
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Overthinking Cool Runnings: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sanka Coffie
Reclaiming Miyagi: The most unjustly hated man in movies
Mr. Miyagi, considered solely as he appears in The Karate Kid, is not nearly so offensive as you imagine.
Jack Slate and Shadow Rule the Box Office
Last weekend, America’s #1 and #2 movies were the PS2-inspired cop drama Max Payne and the Madagascar/Kangaroo Jack tequila-inspired love child, Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Part of me can’t help but see this as a missed opportunity – As any millennium…
Surprise! A. O. Scott Likes Rambo. And So Should You.
Movie critic A. O. Scott has what appears to be a new series of retrospective video reviews of his favorite movies on the New York Times website, and much to my surprise, his latest entry is an independent art film…
Hillary Clinton As Norma Desmond
I’m a little late to the party on this, and I’m reticent to go too political in this blog, but this piece of overthinking is too good and right up our alley to go unremarked. By the way, this isn’t…
On the Beat With Retarded Policeman
[Overthinking It Magazine is the weekly feature where we give you articles you'll like all the more since the sabbath gives you an extra minute to ponder them. It may not replace your Sunday morning tryst with the newspaper of…
What hath Zod wrought? Dude culture and the future of American discourse.
Have you seen the May 5 cover of Time Magazine? Christopher Lambert has seen it, and it’s difficult to tell whether he’s amused or not. Hey, he’s Christopher Lambert — the man doesn’t have a ton of range. But he…
The ‘Net Overthinks Garfield
By now, you may have come across a real gem of a Web site — Garfield Minus Garfield. The premise: show Garfield cartoons without any of the talking animals. The result: A creepy bachelor talking to himself, which is a…
Books I Want to Write #1: The Thousand Lives of Asshole Shakespeare
[I'll get back to wrapping up my "No Crying In Baseball" series next week, but for a bit, I want to start a new series -- books I fantasize about writing someday. I'll probably come back to this intermittently. It's…