There’s Hillbilly Elegy, the memoir of Vance’s family, which (so far as I know, at least) is basically uncontested in terms of its accuracy. And then there’s Hillbilly Elegy, the socio-economic, political and cultural text that’s used to advance a very specific and very damaging political agenda. I don’t know to what…

Counterpoint: Werner Herzog impressions are always fun. 

I suppose I understand that you don’t want to name your characters something like “Joe Thomas” or “Steve Johnson,” but the way screenwriters name characters is always amusing to me. Even setting aside movies and shows where the characters have genuinely ridiculous names, even “normal” names in movies just seem a…

These are the same folks who thought it was the height of bad-ass cleverness to turn Trump into Thanos, using a scene that ends with Thanos being out-smarted and vanquished forever. 

Oh, sure, now you people are OK with African and South American immigrants.

Yeah, people like to blame Abrams for everything they don’t like about the shows his production company is associated with, but it’s pretty clear Abrams himself has no role in the creative direction of these shows. 

Wait...Travis Kelce?

“It tellsh me that goosh-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them.”

Will Poulter and Cameron Monaghan are different people, right?

There’s a segment in the Tex Murphy game The Pandora Directive where you have to skulk around an abandoned military base in Roswell in the aftermath of an event involving some kind of alien creature. The Pandora Directive obviously isn’t a horror game, but it’s an effectively scary sequence, forcing the player to…

Jacobs was a damn superhero in that show. They took Britta to some really humiliating depths, and she sold them with total fearlessness. 

I think Kate is going through the same thing Kristen Wiig experienced in the last few years of her tenure, where she’s still really funny and really talented, but because of that the show gives her a lot of under-written sketches on the belief that she can save just about anything. There are a lot of sketches that are…

That’s a Stephen King short story, assuming we’re thinking about the same thing — The Man in the Black Suit. I think King has said it’s his favorite story of his.

Geez, that’s a hell of a cast. Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Evan Rachel Wood, Margo Martindale, Mark Feuerstein, That Smoldering Balkan Guy From ER My Mom and Sister Swooned Over.

Slowed down “Toxic” is becoming an oddly popular trailer soundtrack choice.

The cousin of Bodega Cat is, of course, College Town Used Bookstore Cat. I don’t even like cats and I feel like a college town used bookstore isn’t really complete until it has a random cat lounging in the only chair.

I’m surprised there haven’t more movies and shows set in the French Revolution, which I’ve always found to be arguably the perfect example of history as high drama. Fascinating characters, huge plot twists, striking visuals, big, dramatic set pieces — it would seem to be tailor-made for fiction.

Thor probably doesn’t qualify as a “serious role,” but there have certainly been serious elements to it, and Hemsworth has mostly handled them really well. This scene in Infinity War is a pretty damn impressive acting showcase:

Finally got around to seeing this the other day. There was some genuinely pretty gnarly and freaky imagery, and Hader was great. But it was really poorly structured (the entire second act is just the Losers wondering around, doing nothing and getting scared), McAvoy and Chastain were phoning it in something fierce and…

The Lost City of D sounds like the title of a porn parody written and directed by a film buff pornographer who wants to honor The Lost City of Z and his only idea for doing so is making porn out of it.