There’s some interesting speculation among the characters in the novel about how Flagg seems to attract all the best engineers and technical specialists, who are drawn to the order and stability Flagg has brought to Vegas. 

I’m glad to hear Lauder’s a significant focus of the mini-series. I’ve always found him to be an utterly fascinating character, one of King’s best villains (to the extent he even qualifies as a “villain”). The review calls him a proto-incel, and that’s right on, and it really speaks well of King that he was able to…

Is Storm of the Century ever shown on TV these days? I bought the DVD a few years back, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen it on TV.

(this applies both ways: adult actors acting with children is a special skill, and you sometimes see good actors completely biff it when given a child scene partner)

The number of child actors who are legitimately good (or even solid) actors is incredibly small. Realistically, all you’re hoping for from them in showing up, knowing their lines, hitting their marks and providing a recognizable version of whatever emotion they’re supposed to be conveying. I re-watched the first…

And with Whitford’s vocally left-wing politics, it seems odd that he would sign on to Kill Fauci. 

Seems weird they were able to get Demi Moore and Bradley Whitford for this (Peter Stormare will, of course, ham it up for anyone with a hundred bucks to spare, and God bless him for that). 

When I got around to watching Parks and Rec, I was struck by how much more nuanced her performance in that show actually is when compared to the popular conception of it. Yes, there’s a lot of eye rolls and sarcasm (and doing those well is no small thing, by the way), but it’s a surprisingly joyous performance at…

It looks like the Mass Effect remake is just going to be a simple remaster, with no changes to gameplay mechanics. Which...I was kind of hoping they’d tweak the first game’s inventory system, to be honest. 

I like the Souls games well enough, and I’m sure I’ll play Demon’s Souls once I get around to buying a PS5, but it really is amusing how every flaw in these games is immediately spun into a virtue.

All I want in life is for Walton Goggins to tell me, “Wow. What an astute observation.”

James Marsden is awesome and should be cast in everything, really.

The AV Club seems oddly committed to this idea that Amber Heard, James Marsden and Alexander Skarsgard represent bad or bland casting, and I really can’t understand why. 

Barack Obama is an intellectually gifted man, a brilliant communicator, a once-in-a-lifetime political talent and, by all accounts, a good person, a loving husband and an adoring father.

“HBO Max is trying to give us a Rusty Venture.”

I mean, I’m all for artistic integrity, but would it really have been impossible in either of these scenes to give Cruise and Winslet a small air tank that you digitally removed in post production? 

I did, yes. And now it’s too late to edit that post. Stupid Kinja.

Funny thing about that documentary, it didn’t seem like Hader did any actual writing. Parker and Stone did all of that (mostly Parker, I think), and Hader was just hanging around laughing at stuff. 

I was born in the mid-80's, which I think was sort of the exact right timeframe for becoming a huge pop culture dork without also becoming a big Star Wars obsessive. By the time I started caring about movies, The Last Jedi was about a decade in the past, and we got through basically the entire decade of the 90's…

Tim Heidecker isn’t really my cup of tea, but goddamn, dude has a hell of a work ethic. He’s like the Stephen King of weirdo, absurdist comedy stuff.