This is a really good point - especially about "reving in neutral". I'm not sure how it could have been handled better, besides maybe letting him become a little more friendly with the main characters, so that him helping Dark Cordelia at their expense feels more like a reversion to his prior self instead of just…

I'll be in my bunk.

They meant "barely legal to rent a car".

But La La Land is a good and thoughtful film, and Birdman is a masturbatory mess.

Costume Design is well known to not be particularly well evaluated; instead, it's usually given to the period film with the most lavish gowns.

The title track of Honeymoon is fantastic, but the rest of it is rather forgettable sadly.

That's a good trick!

The contentment in my belly after I've had two big bowls of Greek-style egg-lemon soup (vegetarian no less, to accommodate my girlfriend) suggests it can definitely be a meal.

One may as well being with Helen's holovids to her sister.

Never mind, apparently she's playing Margaret's aunt.

I assume Tracey Ullman is playing Ruth Wilcox, and she's 15 years older than Matthew Macfayden (57 vs. 42). While it's a refreshing change to see the female partner be the significantly older one, it still seems a bit odd nonetheless.

For most novels as good as Howards End, there's going to be enough left out of a feature film to make a miniseries seem worthwhile. But the Merchant Ivory film does an impressive job of getting all the plot points across without feeling rushed.

"Howards End" does not have an apostrophe.

I'm a bit of a wuss myself but didn't find it overly scary.

With the caveat that I can't imagine anything that would make me want to watch the Grammies - As far as the actual awards go, I'd rather ditch the major categories you mention and make them all genre-specific. That would provide a higher profile for artists working in categories that don't have a chance at an Album or…

This little land of mine
I'm gonna let it shine

One of the few things I remember about The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is that the main character is making spaghetti for breakfast at the beginning. (I also remember what a colossal waste of time that book was.)

That's true, there has literally never been a good TV show that's not The Americans.

It’s an expertly coordinated chamber piece of technology versus horse.

I liked that movie a lot, but it gave zero nuance to any of the anti-gay characters, which was fine. It was going for warm and fuzzy, and succeeded - this sounds like it's trying to be somewhat discomforting and a lot subtler.