For some reason, I don't think the consent rules (traditions? is it an unwritten thing?) cover a situation where you can't reach quorum because the senators needed are dead, rather than simply goofing around with their interns or attending fundraisers.

Actually, this continues a longstanding tradition of Republicans of all genders using their children as rhetorical human shields. A few years ago, someone decided female conservative talking point regurgitators had to preface every remark with the words "As a mother…" Even if having kids had nothing to do with the…

True, but it's still a dilemma. Interestingly, I think the question of who would take over if KIrkman quit is the reason they made Hookstraten House Majority Whip instead of a Senator. I'm pretty sure if there was a sole surviving senator (and since 2001, both houses of the legislature designate survivors, not just…

An apocalyptic Flashpoint world (like in the comics) would've made Barry's decision to undo everything a lot easier. I was kind of touched by him introducing Iris to his parents before obliterating their reality, even if Barry's reasons for doing it made no damn sense. Even so, this plot felt tired. I sure hope this…

While I'm with you on all of your other comments, the central hook of the episode rings true to our times. While constitutionally, Kirkman's presidency is on solid ground—him being designated survivor is evidence that he was not, in fact, fired—as in real life, large swaths the public likely wouldn't give a damn about…

Watched Sorceror's Stone a couple of months ago with my kids, and yeah, that's one bizarrely directed movie. I think about a third of the running time has to be context-free closeup reaction shots, set against a neutral background. I get that might have been necessary, considering the large numbers of child actors…

Well that, insects, worms and bacteria. It takes a village to decompose Gertrude Stein.

Adolescence takes a long time for some people!

I'm thinking he gets away but then Brad Pitt cuts a swastika into his forehead so nobody can ever forget he was part of the Trump campaign.

Must…not encourage…007 Cinematic Universe!

Yeah, except that was kind of the root of Alien3's troubles. "Why a wood planet?" "Because monks. We have great concept art." And then because that concept art was gonna be pretty expensive to be put on screen, it was just a hop, a skip, and a stumble from "Monks" to "Rapist Beyond Thunderdome rejects where the…

Opening night of Alien3 was the only time I've seen people smoking crack in a movie theater. While it was annoying to watch the film through an acrid haze of freebase smoke, I couldn't blame them too much because that movie was boring as hell.

Didn't they already cast someone else as Caliban in X-Men: Apocalypse?

I understand where you're coming from, but White Castle would work best if they replaced the chairs inside each franchise with functioning toilets.

She had a legit point about the New Mutants, though. Once you've started and done well on the Varsity team, there's no going back to JV.

Blade Runner vs. Air Force One: Requiem?

Why they gotta be chasing Ruben Blades like that?

Blade Runner: This Mortgage Ain't Gonna Pay Itself

Robert Rodriguez (another guy who doesn't do nuance) directed From Dusk Till Dawn, not Tarantino. Still, I think just about anyone else's version of NBK couldn't help being more nuanced than Stone's, because Stone is on the far end of the spectrum when it comes to not leaving anything to the viewer's imagination. I…

You could even say that any person who's ever tried to change another person learns this. The biggest challenge to having adult relationships is realizing that while people constantly change throughout their lives, they mostly stay the same. Changing a particular undesirable trait in another person is incredibly hard,…