Yeah, this profile is really weird - it’s as though Pompei doesn’t understand the implications of the words he’s writing. He’s profiling a crazy person and doesn’t even realize it (he does call Gase a “maniac” at one point, but it’s clearly meant to be charming).

Payback is an enjoyably mean-spirited little movie. 

Jesse’s tombstone is going to have Jar Jar’s climactic speech inscribed on it. 

I have a book called Y2K: It’s Already Too Late which is a novel published in the late 90's that argues we’re totally screwed and Y2K is going to wreck havoc on civilization. There’s a heroic IT company that the evil American military takes over.

The commercials include a fairly bog-standard gag where Dora does something like that, and her parents do the whole, “Who are you talking to?” thing. 

The upside to the rage in conservative Colorado is that it’s entirely about the fact that they’ve lost. Colorado’s a blue state now - a light shade of blue, to be sure, and I won’t say there are no situations where a Republican can win statewide (Cory Gardner). But the Republicans in the state are now pretty…

Funny you ask...

I re-read the book a few months ago, and it’s really stunning just how relevant Harold still is a character. He’s simultaneously a sympathetic figure whose motivations King skillfully explores and basically the personification of all the worst trends taking place in the worst corners of the Internet. Getting the…

I think my issue with the whole idea of Alfred as a bad-ass spy is that I can’t really believe the transition from James Bond to butler. Alfred isn’t the Wayne family’s fixer or bodyguard or operative- he’s the damn butler. So Thomas Wayne, having watched Alfred seduce beautiful women, kill tons of bad guys and success…

Heh. I’ve also given the King of the Hill issue way, way too much thought.

The Tony Stark from the first hour of Iron Man or even the first hour or so of Iron Man 2 might have voted for Trump on a lark, even while mostly hating the guy personally. But the Tony Stark who emerged from The Avengers? Never. Hell, the entire point of Stark’s arc (reactor) is that he goes from being a Trump-esque…

Alfre Woodard had a small role in Civil War before showing up in Luke Cage, so Marvel has already shown a willingness to place old actors in new roles. 

Wasn’t this a movie that got shot, immediately shelved because everyone knew it was dire and then brought back from the dead once Bradley Cooper had his big Hangover moment?

*jazzy 80's saxophone riff*

Isn’t Fargo always about the things we do for money?

“Oh, god no, I never hope. Hope is pouting in advance. Hope is Faith’s richer, bitchier sister. Hope is the deformed, attic-bound incest offspring of Entitlement and Fear.” 

In his next movie, a little girl gets violently decapitated...and then the local morning zoo DJ plays a fart noise over the radio!

Suggesting that Russell Crowe is also still perplexed about that period in Hollywood history—stretching from 1997 up through, let’s say, 2007's Cinderella Man—when studio executives were inordinately horny for Russell Crowe

His personality has definitely improved.

I think that’s a good answer, and definitely possible. I wonder if the 2019 version of that might be one of the widely beloved Pixar movies - you’re not going to hear a lot of people object to The Incredibles or Ratatouille or any of the Toy Stories.