I saw 20,000 Leagues at the age of 11 or 12 many many years ago. It gave me a crush on James Mason, and made me aware that here was a movie with zero women in it, other than the dancehall girls on Douglas’s arm. I began contemplating what a movie with zero men would be like.

Hubby died from a neuromuscular disease, so this part wasn’t so fun for me.

I’ve been addicted to Sofi Tukker’s “The Good Time Girl” since the sisters had their dorm party.

It’s the kind of thing that ought to turn up on TCM sometime. We should send them a petition.

According to a long-ago article on women in Hollywood the screenwriter Eleanor Perry wanted to change a violent scene because she felt the girl’s character wouldn’t have succumbed. Perry’s husband Frank was the director and reportedly his callous response was “Change her character.”

Why didn’t they call it The Rhythm Method???

I can’t see the movie becuase I just can’t get behind Scarlet Johansen being married to Adam Driver. He is the homeliest excellent actor I have seen in a long time. (YMMV!)

British TV has been like that, too: more like an extended mini-series with a beginning, middle and end. It also meant that someone like Judi Dench could be in a TV series knowing that it was only going to last 6 months. Possibly it also helped that the episodes were mainly written by one or two people, giving the story…

I had a lot of options this weekend: things I could do on Friday or Sunday, or Saturday or Sunday, or could only do on one of those days. After sage contemplation I watched the first episode of “Picard” (meh - saved myself from signing up for CBS All access) and the rest of seasons 3 of “Narcos” (haven’t seen season 1…

Yikes, don’t watch this if you’re prone to seizures.

Fully-functioning Mandalorian or no dice.

At the screening I went to, someone brought their elementary school-age kids, who laughed their heads off. How they responded to the not-funny scenes, I don’t know.

Taika Waititi, the film’s creator, has a Jewish mother, which under Jewish law makes him Jewish and would have sent him to a concentration camp. It was his choice to satirize Nazis.

I’m with you. during the Bush years I could roll my eyes and laugh, but I can’t any more.

As it happens, I just finished watching the Pablo Escobar saga on “Narcos”, and I am sure that in whatever hell Escobar’s gone to he is having a good chuckle.

That must have been some knife.

If I recall correctly, at the Oscars they had a feature about how movies will often use local actors in small parts. In Contagion the doctor who tells Matt Damon that his wife has died was a local Chicago actor.

Does Hayley Mills (Miss Bliss, the star of its original incarnation, Good Morning Miss Bliss) get to come back as someone’s grandmother?

Judging by mediaeval manuscript illuminations, in the Middle Ages most men were clean-shaven (as well as they could be without electric razors). It was the leisure class who could afford to do the manscaping.

Hemingway. The only book of his I was able to finish was The Old Man and the Sea.