I liked this movie a lot. It was just a solidly put together kids movie. The characters were sweet. Schwartz was a wonderful Sonic. It was also the last movie I saw in theaters before the quarantine. I remember the kids being so hyped at the end when Tails showed up. So, you know what? I trust ‘em. Definitely seemed…

This sounds like a well thought out casting decision that won’t have any social or cultural repercussions.

My working theory has been that Morton’s British accent sounded to “artificial” for American audiences, who were quite used to hear such accents from things like GPS systems. Jones has always said Morton did a great job, but never indicated precisely what was “wrong” with her performance. So my guess is that it was…

I find the plot of accidentally killing a sex worker kind of revolting. I remember thinking it was gross when I watched Very Bad Things back in high school, but I couldn’t quite articulate why. Now I can say that the lives of these workers are so often devalued in the real world that treating the death of a stripper…

Amy Adams does such a wonderful job in this film. Her character isn’t in that many scenes and could easily fall into a bunch of underdeveloped “best friend” tropes. But instead she comes across as a fully developed human being with genuine chemistry with Theodore that is able to bring out the best in him.

I still want to hear the Samantha Morton version.

They canceled recaps in the middle of a two parter? That’s... an interesting decision.

Overall, I think I’m a pretty put-together adult, which, given I just turned 30, isn’t super-high praise for myself, but one of my big flaws is that I hate cooking for myself and don’t do it very often. But, necessity is the mother of personal change, and while on lockdown, I’ve had to cook for myself way more than I…

I feel like these kids behaving badly movies are always taken to such unrealistic extremes. I mean I am sure some do bad shit but these movies always seem to frame them as “Just normal kids but with one small slide into depravity their whole concept of civilization and morality grumble down and they become monsters”.…

Not only is it a beyond-tired trope (as I said regarding an earlier episode, it’s a trope that was recognised as exhausted by SF writers as early as the 1930s), it’s a fundamentally bigoted one.

Yeah - the central conflict is not their relationship; no blond homewrecker from his past shows up to try to separate them. The central conflict is her learning to love herself, which I think I heard her say in an interview years ago. The best line, and the one that sums up the whole movie, is when John Corbett is…

Just you wait, they’ll be able to synthesize a vaccine from Hanks’ blood, thereby making him the savior of humanity.  

It would be awesome if Daniel Craig had a totally different accent this time.

I have a knee-jerk aversion to basically all memetic terms, including (currently) gaslighting. They are over- and mis-used by people who generally think they are a lot smarter than they really are. That said, I think it’s completely correct and appropriate here. The villain is literally trying to make the protagonist…

Yeah, I work in the broad field of ‘memorial policies’ (ie., how to talk about this kind of stuff) and that type of thing is harmful. You don’t need to make shit up to make the Nazis look like evil people. Like, if you decide that you need to come with worse things than Auschwitz, the subtext is that you don’t think…

There is a certain callousness to looking at all the horrific shit that really happened in concentration camps and saying "naww, we need to come up with some new shit."

For Jeri Ryan fans: her guest appearance on Wil Wheaton’s TableTop is fantastic. Though they were on different Trek series & had never met, they do the “shimmy” the actors do when the bridge is under attack in perfect sync at 21:28

We had a snowfall one night last weekend with beautiful, fat flakes. I was feeling down so I went for a walk. It was very “Winterreise.” If you haven’t lived with snow, a good blanket of it on the ground will absorb sound to an astonishing degree (even in the city) and the only thing you can hear is the muffled roar…

I’ve always loved how there has always been this undercurrent of friendship among women woven into the show. Like, Cristina and Mer could have been really shitty to and competitive with each other for the entire run of the show, but instead they became best friends and lifted each other up and danced it out and…