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Enrico Palazzo
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My favorite part of the Aaron Rodgers response was that he used the term "prejudicial ideology." Not that I'd think a football player wouldn't be capable of using 25-cent words - I'm a former player, myself, and also a vocabulary nerd - but just that he wouldn't shy away from unloading them at the mass media in the

Runaways, please.

And the two of them have really great chemistry together, too. All of their scenes feel very natural, very lived-in. Good stuff.

I'm 3 episodes in, and I really like this show so far, but man, is it a slow burn. Anyone coming in hoping to be knocked out by something like Daredevil Episode 2's tracking shot fight scene is going to be disappointed. The first episode, until the events at the end, almost felt entirely like a character study. This

This is horrible. Absolutely horrible. I'm so sad for those whose lives were lost, and their friends and family. I'm horrified at humanity's inhumanity. My heart is just breaking in 15 different directions. I want to remind myself that there is so much beauty in the world, but I'm just so at a loss for how to process

And yet, we hear over and over how so many movie trailers are giving away the entire plot of the film. We're seeing a lot of TFA, now, in terms of the volume of promos and pictures and such, but none of these trailers have revealed the storyline. Seems like a pretty good deal, to me.

Once Alfonso Ribeiro's involvement with this show ended, so did my interest. But that's pretty lame, ABC.

Yes, but that's 2 musicals in the last 5 years, running alongside the likes of Wicked, Jersey Boys, and the deathless, shambling corpse that is Les Miserables. Mamma Mia! ran for FOURTEEN YEARS. It's nice that stuff like Book of Mormon and Hamilton gets all the recognition that it does, but the reason that happens is

Syfy, stop trying to make reality TV happen on your network. With the exception of Face Off (which I'll admit to finding entertaining, albeit mind-numbingly formulaic), you've never once been able to do it successfully. Leave that stuff to MTV and give us more aliens and weirdos, please.

But, oh, those few exceptions. As someone mentions below, Book of Mormon is fantastic. Passing Strange was the best rock musical I've ever seen (and it's available on film thanks to Spike Lee, so everyone should check it out), the Broadway production of Hedwig was fantastic and lost none of its original edge, and

There would have been no way to make this movie that didn't involve massive amounts of CGI…but, I dunno. I just watched a new international trailer for The Force Awakens, this morning, and they're, like, running around outside and interacting with real props, and it just makes something like this seem so…plastic.

These guys didn't even come up with "Lawrence of Alabia." That joke's been around forever, and I'm pretty sure there's even a Lawrence of Arabia porn parody that actually exists that bears that title. So, you know, it took a team of four writers to rip off someone else's joke and get credit for it. Awesome.

Wow, what an amazingly shallow and uninformative "interview." It's cute, and all, to see Abrams face a question from George Lucas, but there's, like, zero information, here. I don't understand why this is even worth mentioning.

Whatever else you can say about the show's quality, it was damn refreshing to see someone SMILING while flying around wearing a big red "S" on her chest, rather than brooding and anguished a la the Snyder-verse.

In a previous life, i was a music journalist, and had to interview Leto about his shitty band. He was absolutely the worst, just so over being there and noncommittal with every answer. I was, like, "Look, I don't want to be here, either, but I have a job to do, so can you just help me out a little?"

I'm plowing through Alias right now, and I have to say the only thing that bums me out about this show is that it's not going to have as much Marvel universe in it due to the nature of the MCU/Marvel TV. I want to see Speedball, drugged-out Spider-Woman, J. Jonah Jameson, and all the other stuff Bendis throws in

Basic cable? To really capture the character and world of Hellblazer, it's pay cable or GTFO.

I AM DISAPPOINT

Also, it pulled off the nifty trick of soliciting a TON of product placement in order to totally make fun of product placement. That's a ninja-level move, right there.

Then @elmarinero:disqus is my fact-checking cuz!