Oh man, I love “Play It Again, Sam.” Happier days.

Re-watch the original instead. Boyle and Gould and Loggia and a whole line up of outstanding characters. Of course, the dialog is based on the actual transcript rather than Sorkin’s cleverness.

“Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is funny....”

And that’s where you lost me.

Of all the Random Roles I’ve read, this one stands out for how many things he’s been in that I have never seen. I remember him in The Tick and the two Dark Knight movies, but the rest of this stuff.... He must have joined Lost long after I gave up on it, and Bates Motel -- is that worth a watch?

“Some frat boys, lames, idiots and goofies are going to vote for him”

Lames, idiots and goofies are Trump’s constituency. If Kanye wants to take some of them away from Donald, that’s fine.

It may not be my place to say this, but the conventional wisdom — that Kanye will siphon Black votes away from Biden — makes very…

My wife just said the same thing. To be more precise, I asked her whether she’d heard about this show and she just rolled her eyes. Which meant that same thing.

Lonesome Dove was maybe the first time I remember seeing this.

This aired in the UK a year or so ago, and I’d recommend it on merit, though I don’t know much about Peacock and the rest of its content. Anyway, it’s a creepy look at the surveillance state that seems only slightly ahead of its time, dealing with surveillance state and deep fake issues in a smart, exciting way. And…

I always figured Nicholson’s Joker was the inspiration for the character Donald Trump played during the 2016 election.

What’s the difference? I guess it’s possible you’re asking the question seriously, so I’ll answer.... he was white.

I can’t believe I have to explain this in 2020, but I will anyway. These micro-aggressions happen to Black people pretty much daily. Sometimes (90%?95? 99?) they happen because the white person involved…

My take, fwiw, is that Asimov has great ideas, his plots are cleverly and often intricately constructed, but otherwise he can’t write a lick. His characters are one dimensional (at best) and his prose is flat. In other words, it depends what you’re looking for from a story. If you just want something to make you…

I have very little confidence that this will be an improvement over the original. It’s hard to see what Sorkin brings to the table: he’s a writer whose writing tends to be over-elaborate; the power of the original was its reliance on the trial transcript, which doesn’t need enhancing. Also, the cast (Gould, Loggia,…

The Guardian gave if 5 stars too. Spike Lee is polarizing in the same way Tarantino is -- a wide variation in mileage from one critic to the next. 

Wait until the Tea Party finds out. Major rebrand needed.

“the most accurate description of medieval logic and thought processes he’d ever seen”

Thank goodness we don’t have people in America today with such a tenuous grasp of logic. Imagine what it would be like if one of them was president during a pandemic.

Alicia Vikander drunk-dancing to Solomon Burke’s “Cry to Me” is one of my favorite movie scenes of the decade. 

“Why don’t you call me sometime when you have no class.”

I think I saw Woods in Fast Walking (as a corrupt prison guard with a conscience), Split Image (as a cult deprogrammer), and Best Seller (as a sociopathic hit man) around the same time. He was awesome in all of them. What a fucking tragedy.

That visit to Woods’ parents’ house is great.

Also, Woods surprisingly convincing as a sociopath.