He really serves a purpose, in being the curmudgeon there in the pack of three. The other two do use that to make fun of it, as in fact, is the nature of the chemistry. It was stupid for him to take a punch at a co-worker, and it crosses a legal line which corporations - not to mention State affiliated companies -…

I watch Top Gear and love different aspects of it, I've mentioned it before here in comments. But I would say the way Clarkson describes them, the "dinosaurs" could just as easily be certain autos and the companies that manufacture them, and by extension, Top Gear's modus operandi, the generally upfront commentary and…

Oh I'm with you for a needed refresher, at least for parts of it. I wouldn't want to touch the road trip specials though. I get nervous about breaking up the Top Gear balance, because as much as I loved May alone in his Toy Stories series, sometimes it's also too much May-ness (and his same set of friends) and that's…

There is a certain chemistry with May and Clarkson. They both carry that old school sense of educated UK presenters (regardless of Clarksons puerile wit at times, that seems even to match the old part of old school) both having that UK Top Gear combination of seeming almost erudite (May obviously more so, making it…

Calvin and Hobbes was so well thought out as a comic, so that each set of characters or routines that were often returned to definitely revealed certain particular psychological relationships with Calvin, rather than all characters could just be joke-making talking heads that cover all topics. Like the newspaper comic…

If there is one interesting aspect to this Uma makeup story - at least one that I took away - it's that she suddenly appeared to be a contender for the role of Joni Mitchell, should such a film ever be made.

Ritchie usually gets the necessary visual cues to cite (the way he puts the silencer on the gun, or Cavill's version of Vaughn) so I wonder why would he miss the opportunity to give Illya Kuryakin the hip, proto Beatles haircut? The contrast between the two is the core of the reason for the show. "I Spy" for example,…

From what I understand of colleagues I know from there, because Lebanon is very officially still at war with Israel, their citizens - especially who are public or semi-public figures - don't reject from "hate" but from fear of very real official recrimination. This is a country where a citizen definitely does not want…

I think the comparison to My Little Pony is interesting if only to recall what the female re-developer, Lauren Faust, was known to bring to the success, especially regarding female characters. Oh, and then she was gone after two seasons:

I get it: the flash drive with its virus that silently and suddenly spreads into each girls computer is symbolic for the penis missing from the Ken dolls?

I think Miss Flower's original face (excluding the altered lips) had more natural animation and expression, something behind the eyes. The surgery trades a degree of that away for a sculpted expression, much more oriented to a certain fixed point of views that please, perhaps what happens when we get used to images…

Well, it would be perplexing being as she says a "born again Episcopalian" which, given the "born again" I think implies the very conservative side of that faith's contentious split into two camps. One side welcomes, the other... not so much.

Weinstein did not attend Cannes Film Festival, but instead was visiting Syrian refugee camps in Jordan... What?

Yes how true: January Jones. But let's add, produce the movie for Lifetime where it belongs.

There are a few points overlapping in this post that I think doesn't make it easier to address one of them without getting snagged in the rest. But I can imagine the stress the author feels, because I don't see how there anything to expect anymore from airlines or airline passengers, the "social contract" we believe…

Yes, that photo recalled for me the creepy second act of their weird relationship. It just makes the mother look even more suspect in the overall story.

I recall having to attend movies with family, and my sweet but definitely elder Uncle, who would sometimes start SINGING - at first to the song clip that might have been in the film for like, a few seconds of continuity, but then he'd continue it afterwards, in that "to himself" way which is as theatrical as a…

I just can imagine "The View" and Barbara there with her co-hosts on stage, discussing the latest (whatever they actually talk about I guess ) and an 84 year old is in the front rows, loud-speaking to her assistant/caretaker/daughter/handler "WHAT is she saying now?" "Who's that old one on the right again?" "Which…

Sigh... I recall when Tina Fey made all that garbled nonsense wonderful comedic, satiric material for a few brief moments when it so counted to see it done.
Looking back, years later, Palin (and her daughter for that matter) just seemed so predestined for their life as one non-stop, self-serving sanctimonious shill.

It just makes it more difficult to sneak a look at something you shouldn't be looking at in the office. Luckily extreme bright sunlight coming in the window and messing with it wont matter in this context.