I think their reacting to it being called reactionary.

Meh not interested unless Topher Venom and Rhino Giamatti are involved.

Does the dog die, though? It seems like the goddamned dog always dies in these movies

S1 - yes.

I really hope Bing puts out a Person of the Year, too.

Vanity Star Project That’s OK and Not Much More = surefire Golden Globe winner

It is not good. Season 1 was mixed, but I’d say worth watching on the whole. Season 2 was insanely bad.

Exit To Eden (later adapted into a Garry Marshall buddy-cop comedy that was universally panned, including by Rice herself)

Is Bram Stoker gonna have to choke a bitch?

Years ago, I was moving from one crazy, dangerous neighborhood to another slightly less dangerous, yet equally crazy neighborhood, when a mentally ill homeless person randomly tried to cut me with a box cutter. Just one of those things. One second he was trudging by silently, the next he was coming at me, also silently…

Did anyone else feel the way some of the final battle was shot, where Bond is running through the lair shooting people, might have been a little 90s Goldeneye video game easter egg?

Forget Bond - I want Carey Mulligan as the younger version of Judi Dench’s M in a prequel series as the MI6 agent growing ever more cynical while discovering how shitty British imperialism really is as decolonization takes hold across the Commonwealth in the 1970s. Maybe she occasionally crosses paths with the…

Well, the original was at its core also a family dinner party.

I absolutely agree that Harrison’s casting here is excellent and I want to see her in more leading roles. She’s hilarious! I think the idea that a cisgendered person being cast as a transgendered person steals a job from a transgendered person is a fallacy, though. I also agree that, in general, major producers should…

When she appears in a comedy, there’s this wonderful moment of suspense because you know she’s about to turn the whole scene upside-down. She’s a ringer. Hopefully a lead dramatic role like this will give her some cache to continue doing whatever she wants.

Look, I get it, but adoption also isn’t quick or cheap. And neither is foster care—the people who do it are fucking saints, but you’re giving up a lot for it.

It’s something you have to be obscenely wealthy to even consider doing—on top of compensation for the surrogate, insurance doesn’t cover surrogacy, so all medical expenses are out-of-pocket—and there are certainly *potential* ethical concerns, but I don’t think the practice is *inherently* wrong. I think adoption…

Highly recommend the GQ interview with Harrison linked to above.

What makes it a “shitty fucking practice”?

I spent a moment trying to sort that out but couldn't manage it.