I will admit not having seen any of the original ones (don't spoil how the first movie ends). Saw the Burton reboot; it was bad.

So I saw the first of the new Planet of the Apes movies, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. After seeing White Dog, it's the El Pollo Loco to the former's authentic Mexican cuisine, but El Pollo Loco I find to be good Americanized Mex fast food, and this movie had its pleasures. The minuses: when women actors talk about…

That is supreme dorkiness right there. I don't watch BBT, but she reminded me of Sheldon's Blossom.

I rather liked the three kids standing on top of one another who made up Abigail.

I like Murphy though I don't watch AHS anymore, but to all his critics regarding that show, this episode answers why he gets so many great actresses (and actors). I especially loved Miss Sarah Paulson playing a very different character from the one that got her her last Emmy. In just one scene, she gives a portrait of…

I was hoping the entire episode would be about Burns—whole episodes about the non-Simpsons being rare, I think— but I didn't mind Homer's story as a teacher because it was about the same plot. But that Ex Machina parody came out of nowhere and could have been comfortably not done. Lisa getting her first drunk on,…

No mention that Robert's mother is played by character actress Lois Smith? That scene was well written. While this conflict between Grace and Frankie was ably set up—last episode—I had the thought during this episode that show shouldn't give them one major fight that breaks them up every season, as it would be…

They've done like twenty Spiderman films in your adulthood.

I thought Cruise was playing the Mummy, which would have been a tad more interesting. You know, since he can play good villains and has those "dead, soulless eyes." But if they were going to go with a woman, Eva Green should have been the Mummy then, never mind the typecasting..

If Dems become the only ones working with Trump they have to make some deal-breaker demands: the nationalists and Mercer toadies have to go, and with them any immigration bans and stepped up enforcement. I wouldn't recommend giving him any actual help; maybe Democrats can support good bills and wait for him to screw…

The question threw me because I was thinking of a British head of state or politician. I think it was designed to do that. But April is Shakespeare's birth month, Jeopardy's subtle acknowledgment of that.

Yes, I will miss Andrea, for two specific reasons. Three, actually.

Michelle Pfeiffer's Inside the Actor's Studio Q&A, one guy starts to ask her something but then stops to say he's having a hard time with the question because he can't look at her. I imagine if I ever meet Jessica Chastain I too will have a hard time directly looking at her.

American Amnesia: How The War on Government Led Us To Forget What Made America Prosper by Jacob Hacker, Paul Pierson. Published last year. Two political scientists at Berkeley and Yale, methodically and comprehensively lay out why a strong active government is necessary for a healthy liberal democracy—and for the…

So the only news source that's legit (according to a lot of Americans) turns out to be riven with sexual harassers and bigots. You sure that kind of place is a good source for truth, Republican viewers?

He was very good acting out the writing, which made Ross into an asshole.

I was like "sure, why not" until the misconceptions about her family line. No, suddenly stupid, bad person, your family will get rid of "misconceptions" people have about it once they get rid of your father's VP, and probably many other advisors we don't know about who are anti-LGBTQ.

I loved those David O. Russell movies. Joy was good, too. I wish he were a better human being. Haven't seen her blue movies.

That's going to be a bit hard to do, for spoiler reasons.

Whenever I'm at the theater these days, people always react to trailer tropes as if they've never seen a movie before. I get you're at the movies, treating it like a fun night, but cliched trailers with the same tired beats shouldn't be encouraged.