Just don’t talk about EGOT winners any more.  Wait till they also get a Pulititzer and a Nobel.  PENGOTs are the ones to watch.

I wish I could give multiple likes for that one..

I haven’t seen There Will Be Blood and for some reason have no interest in doing so. But... Yes, this kid is amazing. Prisoners was one of the best movies of whatever year it was. So intense - but.. um. A happy-ish ending? The mystery/mysteries at the core of the movie were both surprising and realistic. And (I’m not…

Diamond Men, with Donnie (I’m pretty sure) Wahlberg, was a good role for Forster.

I’m working on the sequel, Sinkhole Racoon.

poor facsimiles of Daniel Tiger and King Friday XIII puppets

No time to skim the comments so I might be echoing someone, but - the documentary on the group, Shut Up and Sing, is well worth a look. I’d been a fan of them since the beginning, and had followed the publicly available stuff about that fan “backlash”... But the movie makes it clear that there were actual death and…

it’s clear Tolkien is completely stumped about what happens next

“Begin Again” was really good. So were those others but that’s the one that surprised me.    So this thing could very well be worth my time.

He could be right, and I count myself as a Hugh Grant fan. Paddington 2 had not just a great role for him - it also had that completely show stealing musical number at the end. That scene is, I don’t know, a Schrodinger’s Cat thing.  It’s both completely unnecessary in the movie, and completely necessary in the movie.

When you watch it now, Mod Squad is... you know, dated and silly. But I’m old enough to have watched it when it aired, and (remember, only three networks) it was in fact one of the coolest things on. ‘Course I was like 8 or 9 but still. Lincoln Hayes chasing the bad guy and catching him with a mighty leap? Almost…

A perfectly good early-’80s property like “Streets of Fire” is sitting right there waiting to be remade and they decide they want to do “Gritty ‘Friends’?” Come on.

This looks good, at least insofar as a realistic depiction of that age. I remember when Bad News Bears (the original, with Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal and Jackie Earl Goddamn Haley, of course) came out, it was refreshing to hear swearing from little kids. I mean, if “shove that trophy up your ass” is swearing, and I…

I like Cracked Rear View a lot, and I’ve liked what I’ve heard of Rucker’s solo stuff. I don’t like the name of the band much, but I think Led Zeppelin’s a dumb name too. And I don’t like THEIR stuff at all - with its screaming and its bustles in hedgerows etc.

It HAS been a horrible half week. I don’t know if this story would make me almost cry otherwise. But probably.

It probably won’t be Ironheart but if it is? the first sound you should hear when opens is that “clank ...clank... clank,,,” from the end of Endgame.  But instead of Tony Stark hammering his first suit in a cave in Afghanistan it’s Riri Williams in her garage.

I have kind of a hard time with modern animation usually.  I don’t know why but I’m very old so that could be it. Anyway I haven’t tried Tuca and Bertie beyond looking at a trailer, But I will give it a shot now - the kind of heartfelt reaction I’m seeing everywhere at its cancellation makes me realize it’s probably…

I guess I’m with them - Fleabag, especially the second season, is quite a well written show (and deeper than it needs to be).

Ann Coulter, 12/3/18:“I am a settler. I am descended from settlers — not from immigrants.”

I’m not a game designer but if I was I would make a game called Thoughts and Prayers. Blame THAT, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy!