Crystal Skull had fewer wildly inventive set pieces, but its star was a senior citizen. It does have Cate Blanchett in a bob with a Russian accent, so 200 automatic points there.

Excuse me, one last thing. Yes, a white guy telling black people how to feel about slavery and racism isn't a wise idea. I didn't mean to do that, and apologize that it came across that way. I'm glad the show has two black EPS who will reportedly be equal partners with the white showrunners. Benioff and Weiss in the…

Perhaps a bad analogy, but shows aren't afraid to depict African-Americans as criminals, or women as dumb and as housewives, those forms of discrimination people have. Granted its not bringing back an entire genocidal, terrorist society.

Okay, but I don't think the show will present the its Confederate world as a good thing or even with any ambiguity. The showrunners are well aware of the record of hate crimes and won't try to make racists feel justified and proud. If anything you'll see the horror of their worldview. The show presumably will have…

I don't see that at all. If anything, the show would put in stark relief the racism of today. I'm almost positive the show would use the news to come up with its stories. And it's not like slavery was fantasy, nor its effects. Many racial issues, if not all, are the legacy of the institution. This show would highlight…

I still don't understand the uproar over Confederate, an alt-history about slavery when there have been many alt-histories about slavery in book form. Last year there was a well-received one written by a white author called Underground Airlines, about a black bounty hunter forced by the government to capture fugitive…

I had to look this up; couldn't find it on YouTube. There are a lot of HPV vaccine ads. Yours sounds like a scared straight video. "You will give me cancer if you don't get this vaccine now!"

It's about time to retire Flo—she's way past being novel and cute as a spokeswoman. The same with the back-from-the-dead "Can you hear me now guy?" Nobody was asking for the return of that character, and for a new generation, he's just as irritating as he was to the older one.

Having recently seen Billy Wilder's The Apartment (I know, I know) there's a great scene where Jack Lemmon's character is waiting for a classic movie to start but keeps having to change the channel because there are too many commercials, like too many trailers, before it. ("Friends, do you have wobbly dentures?") From…

Think about how newly retired Barack Obama must feel! If I were him, I'd be planning a coup. What strength of character to keep that Obama cool.

Terrible Ad Corner—That Jeep "Recalculating" commercial drives me nuts. I don't get what it is and I hate the automated voice bringing up things about life that aren't related to the car the ad is selling.

Didn't see that, but maybe I should. Actually, I now remember she also crushed it as Amelia Earhart—very brash and winning—in Night of the Museum 2. So she has the chops! Hope she is offered screwball parts.

That's too bad. I always liked his acting, while not being familiar with his writing, which I now will attempt to fix. He didn't look good in his flashback scenes in Bloodline's second season. The last thing I saw him in, last week, was a small part as Ethan Hawke's father in Snow Falling on Cedars (a movie that has…

I've felt the same way, getting angst-y about not being well read and well watched enough. But remember as James Moar says, this community is large and isn't just one person in your computer who's seen/read/heard everything, though it can feel that way with all the comments from different people appearing in the same…

Not to be pedantic, but I thought the short list of any award was the actual nominations list. "Amber Appleton" sounds like a porn name.

Agreed. Happy Feet surprised me and blew me away with its last act. Have to rewatch Witches of Eastwick and see Lorenzo's Oil.

I've held the belief for a few years that every actor should do comedy, especially the ones who are praised for their dramatic performances. A comedy is Marine boot camp, when you know whether you really have the stuff or not.

Hey, stop messing with my favorite love song! Actually, I forgot about Tiny Dancer and Dancing Barefoot, so carry on.

I've no doubt Yoko has tweeted a billion times that she's not a fan.

Just remembering my local radio station DJ years ago reading the rock news— the story was about the divorce settlement— and she couldn't help but call Mills that "wicked, wicked woman."