It was also my favorite kind of fantasy dragon - irritable and eager to eat somebody but willing to toy with people, like (book) Smaug.

I assumed Alice was going in Julia (sounds dirtier than I meant it). I'm still not sure how the shades work exactly.

I think because there would be no body to put the second one in? Not sure about that.

Nice work from Mackenzie Astin, who gets to play one of the series' nicest characters and one its most repugnant. It's weirdly appropriate that Richard and Reynard are two very different kinds of bad dads.

This whole plotline with Frankie's health really depends on Tomlin and Fonda selling the depth and complexity of their friendship and they certainly deliver on that. I thought the protest plot didn't quite work in this episode but (minor spoiler) I really like the way it pays off in the finale and really shows some…

I recently rewatched Cage in David Gordon Green's Joe, thought about how he was so good in that movie and wondered why he doesn't actually try to act like a human being more often, then remembered he is well into his any crap for a paycheck phase. That man is in like half of the B movies I've never heard of on any…

I like the build-up in The Box. It's nicely atmospheric, suburban-but-weird (so very Matheson), and has some good performances. The end is kind of a mess but that's partly because "Button, Button", great as it is as a short story or Twilight Zone episode, doesn't really have a third act. It's pretty much all…

I remember that Aaron Taylor Johnson's character in Godzilla is named Ford Brody only because they made a joke on the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast about how he sounded like a dependable midsize sedan.

Well, there's Cute Pilot, the Architect's Daughter, the Non-Jedi Force Guy, Sarcastic Robot, Evil Bureaucrat, Wheezy Terrorist Guy, Pointless Prisoner Dude . . . and I liked Rogue One and saw it twice.

She and the show really do straddle that line well most of the time. And this show really needs it, because without any humor it would be just the most unbelievably sad, bleak story about the world's most screwed up family.

At first I thought the opening scenes with Norma were straying too far into camp - and then came those slaps.

That scene between Dylan and Norman when Dylan was begging him to take the pill made me cry. He knows that Norman is dangerous, even if he doesn't understand quite how far gone he is, but he's still willing to risk it because he loves him. Norman resisting Norma to save Dylan was moving in its own strange way, too.

Loved Wonderfalls. That is also an excellent 12th question.

Especially given that Davis's own daughter wrote her own bitter memoir about her mother.

I don't care what anyone says. Dunaway gives a great performance in Mommie Dearest, even if the movie around her is an exploitative piece of nonsense. (Although it's kind of a bitter irony that Crawford praised Dunaway publicly early in her career.)

That was an impressive damn Best Actress category. My personal preference would have been Hepburn (because I don't think much on film beats her Long Day's Journey into Night performance) but none of the nominees would have been an undeserving winner.

That was a perfect little scene and so beautifully played by the both of them. The amount they managed to convey - Bancroft grasping Crawford's game, developing empathy for it, realizing that she's in desperate need of approval even when she's a gigantic movie star.

Lazy jokes about oversensitive and entitled college students. A weirdly out of focus attack on for-profit colleges, which are some of the easiest targets around. An Ex Machina homage that really claim out of nowhere. Yeah, I just did not enjoy this one other than a few scattered jokes (slurring Lisa was pretty…

Bragging rights over the people who went to Mizzou? I got nothing.

I decided to have a marathon of John Irving movies after realizing that I own almost all of them for some reason. No Simon Birch because, well, I don't hate myself. The World According to Garp is probably objectively the only one that's actually a good movie. Yeah, there are things that have not aged well at all…