Ordinary People works almost too well because - at its core - it's not a white middle class ennui film. Granted, being white and middle class is indirectly addressed with Beth (like the Jewish doctor line from Beth's mother), but the film wisely restricts it to a trait of her character rather than the film as a whole.

Thank you, Jesse, because this article very much makes me want to go out and watch all of the Kevin Kline films, starting with the Kasdan collaborations highlighted here. I really, really like Kline as an actor, and every time I see him in a film, I want to see more of his films, but I think most of them are fairly…

I watched In & Out for the first time last year and was absolutely floored that Kline was already 50 years old in that film.

In his interview with Fresh Air, Peter Berg said this film was very difficult to make because BP didn't want the film to see the light of day, so they took some pretty sleazy steps to make his job as hard as possible (e.g., restricting access to real oil rigs, boats, helicopters, and interviews with the men and women…

This interview really confirms that Desmin has an incredibly deep understanding of and respect for Edgar. This line stood out to me: "I knew that no matter what we saw of Edgar, no matter how much he loved Rachael Ray or how much he loved cooking or how much he was championing Jimmy and Gretchen getting together,…

I've been waiting for this episode/arc for two years, as Edgar has been my favorite character since the beginning. It was astounding, and I was taken aback—but also relieved!—by the ending, too. I want Jimmy and Gretchen to know how Edgar is feeling and how much their words affect him. (I teared up several times…

I constantly confuse Denis Villeneuve and Jean-Marc Vallée—two Québécois filmmakers that directed Oscar-nominated films around the same time (Prisoners and Dallas Buyers Club, respectively, in 2013). Plus, both filmmakers have directed Jake Gyllenhaal recently. Do they know each other? Anyway, this film looks…

I caved and bought the comics. The comic and the show are remarkably similar, but just different enough to keep me satisfied.

There's a guy in my neighborhood who walks a lot, and my dog barks and raises his hackles every single time we pass him. My dog doesn't do that to anybody else - ever. Just this one guy. I've always joked that he's probably possessed.

I'm really late to the comments this week. So, two things have been clarified since my comment on last week's episode: (1) The comics confirmed for me that Joshua does not remember his possession. Maybe some of the possessed do remember, but it sounds like within the mythology of the show, most of them do not…

I didn't mind the Demon of the Week format here because it deepened the Reverend's sentiment about demonic possession affecting the possessed differently. Lee Tergesen's character reacted differently than Joshua, who reacted differently than Allison, Sarah, etc. One of my biggest outstanding questions of the series so…

I just wanted to thank you for reviewing this show, Danette. I spotted the Kingdom coverage last week and wound up binge-watching the entire first season this past weekend. It is really, really fantastic. Straight out of the gate, the show knew exactly what it wanted to be. There's not a weak link in the cast. Most of…

George MacKay had an unusual amount of fans/fangirls in the audience when I saw this film at Sundance, and I couldn't quite figure out why. Pride? How I Live Now? The Boys Are Back? I expected to see a YA film series or popular TV show on his IMDb page.

If Lady Gaga wins on Sunday, then she'll be one award away from the EGOT, and she technically already has a Tony…Bennett.

Same here. I also saw the short films (I've been seeing them for five years; it's one of my favorite categories at the Oscars), and "Ave Maria" was clearly the least effective of the five live action nominees. With his "total blind-luck shot in the dark" comment, Dowd makes it sounds like the Oscar-nominated shorts…

Same here. I stood by Elementary for three years. The show has fallen far after the Kitty arc. The back half of season 3 spun its wheels, but I thought the season finale was well worth the wait, considering Sherlock's relapse was hinted at throughout the season. Why have they done nothing with it? It is flabbergasting…

I had the pleasure of seeing this film at Sundance and thought it was an absolute delight. It was my personal favorite film that I saw at the festival. It is very similar to, although much lighter and funnier than Taika Waititi's earlier film, Boy (available on Netflix!). Waititi has an uncanny knack for casting child…

As a viewer who has not read the books, I'm enjoying the show quite a lot. (Am I the only one? I think so…) Going off of Grapefruit Simmons' comment above, I'm more interested in the effect of magic—or lack thereof—on the characters' lives than seeing actual magic on screen. I really like the performances,…

I agree, and the show made Naomi waiting for Holden that much more meaningful at the end of the episode. In the book, of course we knew she would wait for him. They were pretty good friends by that point, what with all the constant agreeing. In the show, the audience knew Naomi would wait for Holden, but Holden didn't…

Going off Zack's line about Holden repeatedly falling on his ass, I like that the TV show is clearly highlighting Holden's really bad decision-making (VAGUE SPOILER: a trend that continues throughout the series). IIRC, in Leviathan Wakes, the other survivors stood idly by as he made bad decisions for them, such as the…