Yes, the show is good, depending on your tolerance for creepy stuff whch may or may pay off in the end. Beautiful photography, striking images (the causeway from overhead, the woods, the fens, the giant figures constructed for the festival). I don’t like really horrible horror, so I was peeking out from behind my…

A good 10 years ago or more there was an article in the New Yorker revealing that there are now so many categories for the Emmys that it was almost a joke that everybody in Hollywood has one. And this was before there was such a a thing as an “Unstructured Reality Program”. Isn’t “unstructured reality”... life?

She said “your precious little angel”. But note that not only do we not know what actually happened, we don’t even know what was supposed to have happened. Child, woods, T-shirt, immigrants.. that’s all we have been given so far.

a) Using an epithet to describe anyone can be offensive. (Repug, libtard, etc. etc.)

I haven’t watched much television this summer, but now I’ve got appointment TV back. God I love Jude Law and Emily Watson. However...

You just don’t like babies!

Actually, it is.

I loved how she was always so very very pretty without looking plastic.

Funny, in the middle of the night I was just flashing on having the ear thing done to me when I was 15 and had just met the guy. (He thought I was 12.) While there are things I would do in the heat of passion but not otherwise, some have remained a definite no.

I haven’t quite finished Season 1 yet, so it may continue to grow on me. I’m watching it for Nick Tarabay, but Lucy Lawless’s character is interesting too, and John Hannah as the patrician/master is of course very good. I just wish they would save the gore for the arena, and then I could pay more attention to the…

Also in 1960's America.. Sadly, I can no longer pass the pencil test.

I haven’t seen The Descent, but I’m pretty sure the women were *whaling* on the creatures, not *wailing*. Maybe they did some wailing, though.

Thank you, AV Club, for The Popcorn Champs. I’m old enough that so far there have been only half a dozen movies I had never seen before, and I am so enjoying your analyses and catching up. Finally watched “Top Gun” Friday night. “Watched” is a misnomer, because after ten minutes I had so much testosterone poisoning…

While academics have no business practicing deceit, is this more transgressive than men who want to be regarded as women because they “identify” as such? Or a woman who presents herself as a different ethnicity than her own by taking her husband’s last name? If my last name is Chang you don’t know without seeing me…

It all depends on where you’re coming from, After 3 episodes I became wonderfully horny, and it’s lasted all year.

I tore through the entire series after The Mandalorian ended, feeling withdrawal, and found myself only watching the episodes with her and the other women characters.

My first husband died of cancer. The second died from ALS. Whether or not Chadwick’s loved ones have made a public statement, I would guess that besides grief, that is how they are feeling

I have previously admitted to my irritation with classic stories being made “relevant” (which tends to mean fictitiously sexualized or uglified), but in this case, I’m in. (Also, Winslet and Ronan.) The real Mary Anning’s story is fascinating: a barely educated girl who collected fossils for the money, she grew up to…

I’ve admired him since his days as a lawyer on The Practice, and when he made his appearance as Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian my reaction was certainly not “Look, a black villain”, but “Cool! It’s Giancarlo Esposito!” He looks great in a cape, has a wonderful voice, and he can project this marvellously dignified air…

Fun fact: he could speak Yiddish! I was studying the language on You Tube and stumbled across a clip from “Taxi”, one of his very first roles. He’s a taxi driver who helps out an old Jewish man who can’t get an Irish cop to understand him. In real life Cagney learned Yiddish from growing up on the Lower East Side. He…