I want my money back for every romantic comedy that featured "Walking on Sunshine" in the trailer but never played it in the actual movie!

The eternally non-prolific Redford, who only makes a few films a decade but makes sure no one remembers them

The as-yet-unnamed comedy stars Mulaney as a New York-based stand-up comedian who writes for a game show host played by Martin Short. Pedrad would play his roommate Jane, a sweet but lazy teacher.


So it's safe to assume that at least 50% of the show will be dragged down with boring "when will they confess that they're…

Willem Dafoe is a bit svelte to be playing a character called "the Buddha," isn't he?

Movie/TV show professions that need to be at least temporarily retired:

I actually first heard The Wall through my father, and I was fascinated by the grotesque artwork on the inside cover. Then my dad got cancer, and not surprisingly he didn't listen to the album anymore after that. I rediscovered it and the movie in high school. The movie is about as subtle as a brick to the face, but…

Yeah, just reading that kind of made my skin crawl a little, I must admit.

It really has become insufferable, hasn't it? And that sucks to say, because I would definitely be considered a part of geek culture. The problem is that it's been ruined by a lot of bitter, arrogant dudes in their 30s and 40s who still think they're on the fringes of society, even though,…

I bought Ready Player One a couple months ago, but haven't read it yet. Is it any good?

Amelie has been merely mediocre recently, as opposed to outright wrong.

Hannibal Rising was garbage. Red Dragon is the best of the bunch by far.

I will have to make do with reading you on Twitter, alas.

I haven't. I probably should, but I think I'll wait a bit after reading his journals.

You kind of hate him and yet want to hug him at the same time, so…probably? It's certainly sobering in the sense that he was yet another performer who, despite finding success in his chosen art, and never being short on friends and romantic companionship, just couldn't overcome depression.

I'm reading two at the moment: Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine, which I have to read in small bits because the details and exposition get a little dizzying (I realize that's the point), and The Journals of Spalding Gray, which I have to read in small bits because it's really goddamn depressing.

I honestly cannot wait to see this.

This is the worst news day ever.

I read somewhere that when Jason Segel first "met" Kermit the Frog when writing began on the most recent Muppet movie, he wept. I got teary-eyed just reading about it.

Goddammit, any more bad news?

The fact that he went out on a date with Oprah Winfrey is one of my favorite bits of bizarre pop culture trivia.