A shot of James Ellroy peeping through someone's window. The homeowner is watching the credits of LA Confidential. Zoom out: it's your house!

Somewhere in LA, a screenwriter googles "motley crew origins," hoping it's a pithy Shakespearean couplet suitable for white text on a black screen in the opening moments of the biopic…

I mean, I definitely understand the visceral reactions in this thread, but with the film holding a 92 at Metacritic and a 100 at Rotten Tomatoes I can't help but feel like some nuances might have gotten lost in this writeup…

Check, check…and check!

"My turn" and "Shall we?" in one trailer…

Why are they putting this out before Wonder Woman is in theaters!? There's a reason we've seen a ton of Guardians stuff but relatively little of Spider-Man, even though it opens in just three months.

Google Messenger was their iMessage competitor and is apparently now called Android Messages.

I don't remember my mom's birthday but I can still tell you my ICQ number from 20 years ago.

Wow, now Google only has four official-but-competing instant messaging systems remaining: Allo, Duo, Hangouts, and Messenger. What a cohesive and sensible business strategy!

Apparently it's about joke theft, but I suspect it's about that in the same way that GG was about ethics in game journalism.

This is a serious question: why has Reddit been so pissed at her the last week or so? (I mean more than usual.) I assume she badmouthed the site or something?

I hope it's like the origins of Gandalf's sword in The Hobbit movies: he found it in some trash.

What was interesting to me rewatching these was how they were dated. The Hitler stuff in The Producers was shocking at the time but pretty passé today, whereas the jokes about the gay director were run-of-the-mill then but shocking and mean-spirited now.

I loved that Little just kept on going after breaking, leaving the film with the full scene. The mark of a pro!

"Strong emotional core" is the perfect way to put it. Their relationship holds the movie together no matter how zany the rest of it gets. Like even after the metatextual insanity, Bart picking the Kid up on his way out of town is still heartwarming even if the whole film was just deconstructed moments before.

Serious Eats recently published a vegan "carbonara" that's really delicious. I made it a couple weeks back and it was quite yummy: http://www.seriouseats.com/…

Weird trivia: Jami Gertz is literally a billionaire and is part owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and majority owner of the Atlanta Hawks.

I rewatched Blazing Saddles tonight for the first time in a loooooong while. Maybe since the senior year of high school? (We were the Party Crew Of '92, I'm sure you've heard of us.)

What was the thinking behind Kevin's small bet? Just that, given the topic, it was possible they'd both miss it?

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