Ah yes, the full David O. Russell. I await it with eagerness.

You'd be up there with history's greatest robot actors - Acting Unit 0.8, Thespo-mat, David Duchovny.

I feel like DC are getting that impression too - there seems to be less focus on the character in general promo and the whole edgy method pranks nonsense really didn't give them the PR they desired.

Check out Dustin Hoffman slapping Meryl Streep and goading her over the death of her partner on the Kramer Vs Kramer set.

I do enjoy that one of the great recluses of modern entertainment is just using the site for the bare minimum. Given how almost non-existent the promo is for his books, this feels like a weird move (I'm still kind of surprised he's self-publishing his work: Surely writing Bart's Comet would be all you'd need to tell…

I'm currently reading The Sellout and am stunned by how confidently Beatty walks that high-wire act. Funny as hell too.

The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara is one that's stuck with me since I read it last year. Inspired by true events, has an unreliable narrator with footnotes provided by an unreliable editor, tackles themes of colonialism, ethics, 'genius' and the limits of knowledge, and is beautifully uneasy in its style.

There's actually a passage in Valenti's Sex Object where she talks about abuse and how often women are told to "laugh it off", which is actually incredibly emotionally draining and ends up being more about reassuring others that you're okay than actually being okay. It's a passage that's lingered with me since I read…

He's consistently bad, makes lots of money and gets work despite a serious lack of commercial and critical clout to justify it, plus he's an absolute douchebag to everyone, but particularly women. He's like crabgrass - he never goes away.

I'm still holding out hope Esparza will be on Fuller's Star Trek. Just anything that gets him off SVU would be nice.

Honestly, that's really sweet. Hurrah for fun!

There does seem to be more of an off-Broadway musical scene than there was in years past - stuff like Fun Home, Dear Evan Hansen, Giant, and even Hamilton have established themselves and moved to Broadway - but I agree that the market really isn't there for those risks; not when the average Broadway musical costs $15m…

Lincoln: I like political dramas, Daniel Day Lewis and Tony Kushner.

I've been reading The Caped Crusade: Batman & The Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon, which is a really interesting history of the character coupled with a discussion of fandom and how the pair often mirror one another. It's also very funny, which should be of no surprise if you listen to Weldon on Pop Culture Happy…

I'd be interested in an adaptation of the books up to a point - it was clear that by the final 3 or 4 books, Harris's heart just wasn't in it and she seemed to resent the fan expectations mostly created by the show (Eric's ending feels very much like an F You to those people).

I eagerly await your thoughts on Wildhorn's Wonderland or the upcoming Death Note musical.

War on Everyone looks like a fun step up from said warmed-over buddy cop movie, although I'm a huge John Michael McDonagh fan so I'm biased in that regard.

There's a pretty decent lineage of good or even great Broadway musicals being made from not that special source material. Newsies comes to mind.

Yeah, Broadway has a bad history of vampire musicals.

Outside of blockbusters, he's made some pretty solid films: Diary of a Teenage Girl is great. Perhaps he just needs to grow back the skeezy moustache for the serious movies.