Uhm....what about Dune? My hope is that it’s among the best Scifi movie of a generation just like the book had been. Denis Villeneuve did such an amazing job with Blade Runner that I think it's feasible. So far though, there is no definitive film or TV version making the book the only true way to experience it. 

Eh, Highlander stole paid Queen to write the best possible theme song for an adaptation.

Hugh Grant had an interesting tweet. He noted how the Sun had replaced all their articles that bullied Miss Flack and replaced them with links to suicide help type websites. Abominable hypocrisy at its finest

They should be allowed to say mean things. They shouldn’t be allowed to make shit up, which they do. Every. Single. Day. I thought i was already very cynical about the tabloid press, but then a friend worked for one. The stories she told me were mind boggling. It was standard to just make up a quote, get someone in…

You’re putting an awful lot of weight on three letters that are basically just a standard shorthand (perhaps even AV Club mandated style) for “has died.”

I really want to give James Marsden a big hug, because with the exception of Westworld, he’s made some truly baffling career decisions for an actor who’s always so likeable.

He was very nice about the Van Gogh question. You obviously can’t hear it on the page, but his tone was more “let me go off on this thing for a minute” than “you’re a moron and I’m mad you asked me this.”

Especially when one of those words is ‘emancipation’.

They didn’t want people getting this film confused with The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel.

For the record, Our President’s mother may have been an American citizen when he was born, but she was born in another country (Scotland) and grew up speaking a language other than English (Gaelic).

While I generally feel narrative ambiguity gives the viewer more credit, the number of movies about whether this metaphysical experience is real or mental illness now far outweigh the ones where the resolution is concrete.

You know those posts where they collect feel-good stories to remind us there’s still good in the world? This belongs at the top of one of those.

Me: “Rose Byrne is very attractive and vivacious. No one could ever make me think otherwise.”

I’m going to use this as an opportunity to mention The Things , which is Peter Watts short story of The Thing , told from the POV of the alien ..its really quite good.

I will never understand people who don’t know that words have meanings.

Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, for one. It may not be the oldest, but it’s one of the most widely known and influential.

So they are building more natural gas fired power plants but are going to be 100% renewable..makes sense.

Digression, but US style outlets seem to be one of the least safe design to me. The prongs will be “live” even when halfway out. Also the plugs aren’t very securely seated, especially in older outlets.

Wonder Woman was excellent...right up until the end when it turned into a 90s game cutscene.  Had they nailed the landing, that movie would have been perfect.  I’m hopeful WW84 does better.

Is that anything like speed holes?