United staff are either wonderful or terrible. I had a great stewardess who gave me a ton of help the first time I flew with my cat. On the other hand, I was on a flight where the attendants skipped our row of seats at mealtime, didn’t respond to the call button, so I finally had to go back and get them. Then during…

Cathay Pacific don’t give you as many meals as they used to (I remember getting like four on a transpacific flight once, but now it’s the standard 2), but they’re generous with free wine and you can go to the galley and get snacks for free anytime you want. They have instant noodles, Toblerone bars, apples, oranges,…

Especially because there were two different burns on her neck, one above the other. If something had caught her whipping past, there just would have been one.

Actually, I suspect China wouldn’t have minded if the Ancient One was portrayed as being Tibetan. Especially if the story was set in the past, he could have been portrayed as an evil holdout from the pre-communist feudalistic society. The only thing would be the film would have to be careful not to imply that Tibet…

Yeah, but movie roles in general (with the exception of certain historical films and biopics) are open to white people, who are the “default race.” Usually Asian actors and black actors are considered only when a part specifically calls for an actor of that race. When a casting director reads “firefighter” or…

What about CHAW! the Korean man-eating wild pig movie?

Melanie Griffith had to have plastic surgery because of one of the lion attacks in the film. :(

Yeah, skinny isn’t really the word, although I can’t think of the one I really want. Lean? Spare? Anyhow, I mean she’s in good shape, certainly not stout.

Fan theories about what was going to happen with Arya this week were more interesting than what actually happened on the show!

Yes, I also thought it was a known thing — I remember reading about a study that asked incarcerated rapists to report anonymously on how many women they had actually raped before being caught, and the average was six per person. The study is pretty old — I think I learned about it in the early 90's, and I couldn’t…

The slab/old mattress he’s sleeping on and the dead trees are really reminiscent of Salad Fingers. It’s like they’re living in the same world. Maybe one day the mutant and his dog will climb over a ridge and see a shack with the number 22 on it. It’s a nice fantasy to imagine him and Salad Fingers spending time…

Didn’t she go to rehab for a while after the shoplifting incident?

I totally forgot about that!

I was disappointed by Mama because the first plot synopsis I read made it sound like the ghost ended up being welcomed into the family so she could stay with the daughters. That would have been pretty revolutionary and interesting. Not “kill the monster,” but “oh, the monster doesn’t mean any harm. Let’s just let it…

I think the problem with the Babadook is as soon as you know it’s going to be scary it’s not scary anymore because you’re prepared. If you went into it having no idea what would happen, it’d probably be terrifying. Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm scared the crap out of me because I had no idea what was going to happen…

A lot of the parents do know what’s going on. It’s been going on in Hollywood forever. I don’t know if it’s okay to mention specific people, but the story is that Natalie Wood’s mom let people know if they would cast her in a role they could do whatever they wanted with her. There was one really brutal and terrible…

They are. In interviews, they don’t seem very upset about the death of their child. They just complain that they are being prosecuted by “big pharma” as part of a ploy to make money off of vaccines.

Unfortunately, he’s really paunchy and unattractive in this movie. I saw it at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. He has his shirt off several times in the film, and it was kind of gross and uncomfortable.

I thought that too. But man, she also looks scared of her father. It’s disturbing.

In the show did Roose talk about Ramsay poisoning his son? I can’t remember. If he did, that made what happened last night make even less sense.