It is, a bit.

Their checks bounced, by which I mean, never arrived. Hence my RUTHLESS PAN of Doctor Strange:

Honestly, this Batman movie doesn't want you to buy toys any more than most other Batman movies, which is to say, it does, but it only seems more mercenary.

I don't think Batman & Robin does either, for that matter, though it's been a while…

Honestly, I don't think it's plotty enough. It would purely be Joke Spoiler Space.

To be honest, I associate him more closely with Grand Budapest, In Bruges (with his cunt kids), and Schindler's List than that other part, but that's probably his most famous thing, right?

Cool! I haven't seen either of those. I've heard good things about The First Time (maybe from you? From someone on the comments here) and both of them sound up my alley.

I believe the more direct translation of the title involves subjugating the demons (or something that to effect), so actually kind of the opposite of the American title.

Same. Also, I guess Peter Hedges is father to Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges? Shouldn't be surprising how many young actors are just kids of filmmakers or other actors, and yet…

I like her for no reason I can really understand (well, OK; she's kind of adorable) because I have straight up never seen her in a good movie. Even her Brad Bird movie isn't very good! And you leave out that she was also in a Nicholas Sparks movie! She seems to have such misguided instincts for good material that I…

I dunno, as not-great as De Niro is in this, I'm not sure if that's a fair point. Calling De Niro, who did study and "train" under a real stand-up's guidance, someone with no training as a stand-up seems kind of like calling an actor playing a ballplayer someone with "no training as an athlete" because the actor never…

Yeah! Art happens in a vacuum! The world doesn't exist!

Were those cops dirty/corrupt? I don't remember that being part of End of Watch.

I didn't much like Sils Maria and I still thought Personal Shopper was pretty strong. So GET EVEN MORE EXCITED!

If you mean Leslie Mann, then yes, she is unlike the others in the sense that she gives an endearing performance in this movie.

Maybe not, but it will make it a lot better than X-Men: The Last Stand.

They're screening Wellness relatively early (for a horror-type movie, anyway) so it seems like maybe Fox has some confidence in it…

So weird that everyone isn't as deeply, permanently bothered by that as you are.

Red Lights was pretty good, though! Or at least entertaining enough. De Niro is pretty fun in it.

I'm with you. I've never seen the old show but I'm pretty sure I've seen every single one from "Mother and Child Reunion" onward. My wife and I have a baby and jobs and other responsibilities and we still finished the most recent batch of Next Class (which, let's be real, is really just Next Generation Season…