Then again, I’m unfashionably fond of Sorkin.

Buttigieg was never my candidate, and I got pretty annoyed with some of his flip-flops over the last few months before Iowa, but it was genuinely kind of fascinating how much sheer vitriol Buttigieg generated and just how unhinged some of the reactions to him got. The bland white guy from Indiana — not the avowed socia…

Part of the frustration with bad old-school GTA missions is the games never had much of a checkpoint system, so if you tripped up on some later element of the mission, you had to do the whole damn thing over again. Often including a lengthy, boring driving section at the beginning. 

I have misty teenage memories of rather liking Papa John’s pizza, only to have them change the recipe at some point and become the laughingstock they are now. Is my mind playing tricks on me and the pizza has always been terrible?

Look, they also had to import millions of illegal voters into already-won California in 2016. These are busy people. 

Yeah, it feels like a show that very deliberately keeps the audience at arm’s length, and so it’s hard to genuinely love. But I’m always interested to see what comes next. 

But as in Wright’s last film, Baby Driver, the characters are shiny objects first and people second—a choice that assures that Last Night In Soho’s merits are almost entirely on a surface level. For Wright, dialing back the jokes shouldn’t have to mean dialing back the humanity as well.

You know, that really was the worst scene in Ant-Man and The Wasp.

Based on the screenshots this show is a science experiment in trying to make Nick Offerman and Mary-Louise Parker look really unattractive. 

Yeah, I remember being so disgusted with all these people by the end of the series that I almost fell in love with that federal prosecutor who showed up in the last couple of episodes, simply because she was a reasonable, articulate human being who probably handled inter-personal conflict in a normal, non-violent…

That is pretty damn funny.

Honestly, I kind of appreciated that his takeaway was basically, “You know, maybe the status quo is working, in a really screwed up kind of way?” It’s undeniably ridiculous, but on the other hand, the world hasn’t destroyed itself over Taiwan, and by the standards of international diplomacy that’s a win. 

Damn you, Gabrielle, you beat me to the “That’s right, the five Twilight movies” joke. 

I mean, I guess it’s generous of you that you’re willing to grant he “probably” wasn’t trying to murder someone?

A production still of Samuel L. Jackson in the last Spider-Man movie made the rounds of film Twitter a year or so back because he was holding what was obviously a fake gun painted green so they could CGI in a gun in post, and the reaction was basically, “Ha ha, Marvel’s so lame, they just CGI everything.”

I finally got around to watching it some months back, and I think my takeaway is that it’s a show that accomplished exactly what it wanted to do, but in doing so it kind of undermined its entertainment value.

I don’t watch the show, so I have to ask: is the show really this blue? Every screenshot I see makes it look like it’s shot through a blue filter.

I never thought all that much of Nicholas Hoult before, but he’s a damn revelation in The Great. Utterly loathsome, but hilarious, and with just a tiny bit of something sympathetic about him that never really comes close to making you forget how much you hate him. 

A Very Pleasant Series of Events, With no Unnecessary Complications, starring Kaitlyn Dever. The new smash hit on Netlfix.

I saw it at a theater in Boulder, Colorado (about an hour from Aurora) a week or two after the Aurora theater shooting. About 20 minutes in a guy walked in carrying a big duffel bag and walked to the back of the theater. About 30 minutes after that, a heavily armed cop entered and started looking around the room.