Yes, ideology making rational human beings ignorant, stupid, oblivious to facts, liable to create their own, and forgo evidence-based thinking, is a national public health crisis for this country (as it is for every country, but we seem to have a bigger case of it than usual). But everybody already knew that, though I…

Now I want one more than ever!

Stallone, it turns out, is a big fan of Frank Bidart and Lucie Brock-Broido, but he thinks Claudia Rankine is slightly overrated. You can't win them all!

Well said. Plus I never bought Logan's claim that the series was about a religious woman losing her faith. They didn't really portray in any depth Vanessa's relationship with God, so, when she lost it (not really a spoiler), it didn't register. The show was not about faith but about fighting monsters.

Fantastic Frankenstein's Creature story, and I discovered how great Rory Kinnear was.

I thought, "Terry O'Quinn was in Forever Knight? No he wasn't." To show you how old I am, and still not as talented as that bastard Jenkins.

Huh. I like the idea because if you can play chess with one, no reason you can't literally interrogate them. The movie, going for bright beauty and a sense of wonder about life, made me think of Tree of Life, which I believe was inspired in part by Job questioning God and He answering back. There are good ways to do…

I've come around to not asking these types of artistic integrity questions. Actors love to work, they love their work, they love getting paid big bucks (like we wouldn't appear in these movies if offered that level of cash), and they like meeting, working with, and hanging out with other big actors/crew on location.…

I'm disappointed they were actors instead of the real personifications of Time, Love, and Death. That would have been more interesting, and the premise far less stupidly cruel.

Penny Dreadful finale spoilers (Yes, 1000% on Eva Green): It's a beautiful last scene, but killing off Vanessa Ives is like killing off Frodo Baggins in The Two Towers, with his mission unfulfilled and Sauron has the One Ring. You don't create a beloved heroine and have her fail her journey—the entire point of the…

I was pretty impressed Jenkins was this young; his level of talent made me think of an older person. Same with fiction author Helen Oyeyemi. Oh well. I'm very glad they're around. (The avatar of breathtaking genius and talent at a very young age, at least in the last century, remains Orson Welles for Citizen Kane at…

It's not a movie, but before one I saw Apple's Christmas-themed Frankenstein's Creature ad, and it's pretty cute. Bonus points for the Creature having a real painted portrait of Mary Shelley in his house.

Judd Apatow's mother was Bea Arthur? That explains a lot.

Tonight, I finally saw Moonlight. Why, yes, it is the best film of the year (so far). If Barry Jenkins doesn't get the Oscar for best director—making him the first African-American to do so—I'll eat my hat, after I purchase one because for some reason I don't wear hats. The motherfucker is the same age as I am; how I…

People are the worst! I will ask the person in front of me if he can turn of his cell phone because I can see his screen. I'm much more confrontational now than I used to be, though nobody has really bothered me. The last time was when Moulin Rouge came out, and I went to see it with my sister. These two middle aged…

Let's quickly find the world's most powerful necromancer and have him/her/Eva Green reawaken all the Founding Fathers to ask them whether the EC was designed to rebuke someone like Trump. That should settle it.

Another great Kurt Eichenwald piece about Trump's constitutional-crisis mess of business holdings, focusing on three countries: Philippines, Taiwan, and Turkey, where the Erdogan government might blackmail him into extraditing the cleric they claim was behind the coup.
http://www.newsweek.com/201…

Very nice the very beautiful Natasha McElhone is 1. I thought she was under-the-radar for most people.

Good for poor Cindy. RIP. The cynical side of me wonders if Tim took or was told to take a fall to the cancer victim.

It's pretty awful to see your parent die right in front of you, and suddenly no less. I watched Growing Pains as a kid, like we all did. The last time I heard him, he was doing radio ads for tax forgiveness companies. He'll never show us that smile again. RIP.