Would they have considered Bill Hader for the role? I don’t imagine anyone Hades better than Hader...

My Miata was totaled last October. I’m still broken up about it, but it was not the worst thing to happen to me in the second half of 2023.

Put the pick in there, Pete, and turn it round real neat! I want to spit once, on your head!

LONG LIVE DUKE LETO!!!

James May’s latest India series of Our Man In... was really something. (It never felt condescending; rather, while acknowledging the challenge of approaching India as a foreigner, he showed me things about my country that I never knew about.)

Sounds like an ice fishing trip.

For one, he lives exclusively by Eastern Standard Time. (Which helps with those early morning Hollywood shoots...)

He’s Tom Hollander, so I assume he’s a literal spider who’s romantically involved with the entire cast of Dune...

In related comedy, don’t ask René Magritte to design your road signs. “This is not a hazardous area...”

Had some Tillamook Chocolate ice cream for the first time recently. It blew my mind.

I’d love to see a Christopher Nolan film on the invention of the telephone.

If anything, Tenet seems to have more in common with Arrival, thematically...

Aww, bat-proof windows mean there can never be a Batman.

Yeah, I have a feeling the human brain needs a certain amount of nonsense and bullshit to stay healthy — we can’t always be ‘on’. (It’s what makes the rest of the intellectual feats possible.)

First guests: Jay Leno and David Tennant.

You think we can get in any more elemental references? “It set the movie world on fire!” “Its found-footage aesthetic had an earth-shattering impact!” “Its protagonists, chiefly of choleric temperament as opposed to phlegmatic...” (Sorry, drifted into a little ‘four humors’ there...)

Yeah, I never really got into hockey...

Covering a couple different recent Disney properties there...

Sorry about the bad news but...

Did you hear about the style-and-fashion-themed Book of Eli spinoff?