Yeah, the political read of the movie in this article is misguided - not surprising as it written by someone who was a teenager at the time.

This is probably the only thing I’ve liked of Shia LaBeouf’s in about a decade. And I really liked it.

For me, reading the critiques of NASA by the many tremendous Gemini and Apollo era engineers and astronauts who’d been pushed out of the program - often by politics - before and during the Shuttle Era has been the most eye opening. Some of the oral histories are just brutal.

I guess I’m weird since I never much liked the marshmallows (or Lucky Charms generally).

It’s still pretty amazing to me how many folks in the US are familiar with the Animal Kingdom TV show but have never seen the superb movie.

FTL: Faster Than Light.

FTL: Faster Than Light.

“Why wouldn’t I go through Downtown Crossing on the way back to Beacon Hill or the North End!”

Sounds like my relatives from Bergen County.

“Angie! I love you baby!”

Quick Change 30 years later might reasonably brace for outdated ideas about New York as a crime-ridden cesspool

legitimately catchy song about history

They spent a lot of effort to actually make it pretty accurate, which is one of the things I really liked about it.

was an important part of the original show’s DNA the original series, TAS, TNG, DS9, Enterprise, and pretty much everything Star Trek except Discovery and Picard.

Wow, Secret Admirer made her one of my tween crushes and she helped transform the genuinely mediocre book of For Love of the Game into a pretty good film.

You’re being generous. Even at his lowest our good Captain Mercer wouldn’t intentionally belittle his crew or let others do so.

Earlier today, I stumbled on a video from one of the best naval historians out there, Craig Symonds, on his consulting work for the outstanding Greyhound.

Saw it. It’s terrific. Nails what it’s like to actually work on a warship under intense stress and what good command looks like, and while it’s slightly iffy on the history it’s a great watch.

Greyhound was outstanding. Best naval movie since Master and Commander, and it nails so much of what it’s actually like to be on a warship.

The story LMM tells about when he was about 10, sitting in the balcony for a Weird Al concert, and shouting ‘PLAY YODA!’ at the top of his lungs is cute too - along with another video where he finally got to sing the chorus of it on stage at a much more recent show.

Kinja won’t let me set the time on this to 2:15 as I wanted, but it does look like the dancing hasn’t improved at all in fifteen years.