Tell me about it. Last week, my choice for Family Movie Night was Salò.

I addressed that in my post, but if you want to expound then sure. I took an hour walk outside today already and it is winter here. If it’s under 25 then wait a day.  If the problem is “no advance notice” then put it on a schedule: Tuesday at 2 is take a walk time. I’m not sure why we are acting like this is such a…

Fun fact: if someone’s born without a butthole, surgeons can create one. Don’t think I’d recommend the reverse though...

I had to explain to my husband - who did NOT grow up in the DC area but moved down in the late 90's - why DC-area residents of a certain age were geeking out over that.

I do sometimes wonder if people who make assertions about babies lacking personalities have ever met a baby (or, I suppose, two babies of the same age, for comparison).

I loved it too, and his time as the cat didn’t bother me as it let him be an observer of his own life and when he was back in his own body he realized he’d been looking past the things that actually gave him fulfilment. I can’t help but think that casting say, Wanda Sykes (who can do the cynical grouch as well as…

I just watched it, and he honestly spends more time as a cat than a Casper. I’m conflicted on this one, because I recognize the systemic trope of hiding the Blackness by morphing the character, but this movie still centers his Black life, and in both the ghost parts and the cat parts, his body is still around,…

As someone who grew up in DC, I was just laughing at the presence of a Green Line in the DC subway. They didn’t even break ground on that until at least a year or two later, and it didn’t open for service until the early 90's.

Silly rant or silliest rant?

it’s still a form of cyber-bullying

Some mild spoilers... Agree with all of this. I have no problem with 2 1/2 hour superhero films in theory - Infinity War was that long and was fantastic - but this could easily have lost half an hour. The first two hours have a weirdly sluggish pace and not much action - and the action that’s there is a bit dull (some…

There may be widely varying opinions on the Best Hollywood Chris, but you have united us all when it comes to the Worst AV Club Take.

implies objective truths where there are none

She is not wrong about Vegas

Hm, I think you’re right that we’ve never directly referenced that. But the show is pretty direct about it, what with the Myth Of Narcissus painting.

The #Metoo metaphor in Bojack’s ending also works because it acknowledges a difficult reality of the phenomenon: how quick Hollywood is to forgive these people. By the end of the series, Bojack has been convinced to film a new movie where he intentionally acts as offensive as possible as a way to “fight back” against…

I’m glad the Phoebe Waller-Bridge wasn’t spoiled for me.

My only other thought is that, given the similarities to The Lord of the Rings which must’ve been apparent to the creators early on in this production, a conscious decision was made to ditch the bow and arrows lest the witches basically just become elves.

TIL how much I needed The Downward Spiral: The Broadway Musical! in my life.

“Joe ends up plummeting instead into The Great Before, where new souls are assigned personalities. You’d think that obsessions, along with traits like aloofness or curiosity, would form after birth. Soul asserts otherwise.”