I have read The Switch. I can't remember exactly when I read it, could have been at the end of 2015 or the beginning of 2016, so I don't remember all the details (I remember liking it though). And I was just thinking when I was reading Rum Punch that I should go back and re-read The Switch.

I read Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, which was the basis for Tarantino's Jackie Brown. I gotta say, I loved the book. I can't say which I liked more, the book or the movie, but Tarantino did a great job at adapting the book. He trimmed out some of the secondary characters and side plots and focused mainly on the…

That's fine. I'd take more Fargo over American Crime Story any day of the week.

FX is one of the best channels on TV.

The ending was powerful, no doubt about it. And the whole thing with Wade and his gang (Ben Foster was terrific) was great. It was probably more realistic. The ending to the '57 version was very… rainbows and unicorns. Everything worked out for the better and I can see the argument that it kind of goes against the…

This week I watched "3:10 to Yuma" - the 1957 adaption as well as the 2007 adaption. And I read the short story by Elmore Leonard, which was good.

Totally agree on #1. Nothing turns me off faster than watching a trailer for a movie that looks kind of fun then seeing the world blow up in heavy CGI destruction porn. Most recently this happened with the Mummy trailer.

This week I watched Akira Kurosawa's 1954 movie Seven Samurai then went on to watch the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven directed by John Sturges.

2016 is not going out without a fight.

I don't know why, but i LOVE the Hateful Eight. You're right - it is too long ( a lot of scenes could have been shortened or cut completely), too self-indulgent, and the movie kind of falls apart when you think about it. But I could watch the H8 all day every day and never get tired of it.

Last year, I got Terminator Genisys for Christmas. It took me a few weeks to watch it but when I did finally did get around to watching it, I did a sort of double feature and watched the first Terminator movie before it. It was interesting to see where the Terminator series started (a pulse-pounding thriller) to where…

I take it you haven't watched the documentary OJ: Made in America.

I was hoping Tyrant was going to be like The Americans only in the Middle East. I was wrong.

The OJ documentary is fucking fantastic.

FX/FXX becoming one of a person's favorite networks is not that shocking. They make amazing shows.

Elmore Leonard's "Split Images." I'm not sure what to think of it so far. I'm almost half-way through and… not much has happened. I think this is one of the slowest Elmore Leonard books I've read.

The week you don't watch Predator, is the week something terrible will happen. So please, KEEP WATCHING PREDATOR!!

She was America's sweetheart. Then America saw her naked and America moved on.

Where's Waldo?

Yeah, but it was mostly a class on just Homer. The poems were even more epic than I was led to believe.