My theaters have done this, too. I like the recliners but hate the first-come first-served assigned seating. Which takes away the spontaneity of deciding to go a movie and finding a good seat. Now people buy their ticket way in advance and I sometimes have to sit in the front row, craning my neck looking up and not…

Sure, why not: Guy Ritchie's Swept Away on cable. About 15 minutes later, why, as I would have walked out if I had unfortunately driven to the theater and paid to see it. Better to read reviews of how bad it is than actually watch the rest. My overriding question: why is Jeanne Tripplehorn in this? Elizabeth Banks is…

Why did I think from the description those Lady Hardcastle books would make a good porn series? Who knows! Putting alcohol in your coffee is disgusting.

This was a great show. As one of the (white) people who thought the reaction overblown, I finally got it after Dyson, Cube and Sanders had explained it to me. I thought people were attacking Maher because they thought he was a racist. No, as Dyson said, it was Bill reflexively, unconsciously showing his white…

It'd be nice to go at a late, palindrome age. I hope Barbara Feldon reaches 99. RIP to a man I enjoyed watching in my youth. Perhaps his campiness made me more receptive to the dark Batman I saw in Tim Burton's film, and that Batman has been my favorite superhero since. But it's much better to live life silly than…

List curiously omits The Tree of Life. Since they're the same subject, it should have replaced Boyhood.

"Genre" becomes a great positive with him. There are those who slam his sentiment but that optimism is his artistic voice, and it should not be valued less than any work of dark and gritty that people erroneously believe is more like what "art" should be. Like how premium TV isn't too optimistic. The wonder of Close…

Dammit, spoiler propriety, I can't make the pun I want to make.

Seriously, I may have watched that too with them; I don't remember.

Yes, my parents were very liberal and big tea drinkers. Actually, even though they and I are—no, I just sophmorically thought the contrast would be funny, and I don't make any effort in coming up with my usernames and passwords. (My bank pin is 1234, but tell no one.)

My local deli has the best Sorkin-Santos Reuben.

When I saw Basic Instinct (at 13, with my parents) I thought 6 was hotter than Sharon Stone. Anyone else?

There are at least two things wrong with that title: Orange can never be the new black because orange is orange and black is black, not orange. Fake news!

I'm hoping Bill opens the show with a sketch where he has to pay an N-word fee to a disappointed, sighing Larry Wilmore.

B reminds me of Hillary Clinton. But she did put a lot of effort into her campaign, but with the media's help, the perception was that she only attacked Trump. Don't know how May's campaign went, but this is another example of a nasty surprise after you assume you'll win. Don't do that, the-rest-of-the-world's…

I missed Jeopardy! because I got sucked into a nth rewatch of Spielberg's Minority Report. As Ebert told Roeper, this is one of his very best films and he's already a great director. This one of two (sci-fi) classics Spielberg made in the early Aughts. One of the critics on Metacritic said this was his darkest film…

I know but it—and making it into the verb—was the first thing I thought of when he collapsed.

Oh, how could I forget ILD, which I wanted to rewatch walking to my car after leaving the theater.

If it makes you feel any better, all empires crumble and all countries have made catastrophic mistakes. Germany started two world wars and killed hundreds of millions of people—including committing mass genocide—and they're apparently doing okay today and being the moral voice for Europe and anti-Trump. We as a…

Cats are in No Country For Old Men and Pickles from The Ladykillers.