Hardly. Most of the people working minimum wage are not teens and a good chunk of them are paying off student loans. It's just how it is.

I've become weirdly fond of Shia ever since I was mesmerized by his #ALLMYMOVIES thing, to the point that I went over my data for the first and only time that month because I kept checking up on him in between classes. I loved it. Don't ask me why.

Yeah, but I mean that everyone's saying this year is specifically bad and I'm not sure that it is.

Have there actually been more musician deaths in 2016, or does it just seem like it because we tend to notice even minor celebrity deaths more if they happen soon after a big one (David Bowie, and later Prince) and interpret it as a pattern?

I feel gleefully boastful about my fellow countryman winning the Grand Prix even if people seemed to hate his film. Yay Xavier!!!

You may be right, but I get the feeling that Kirkman wouldn't have said anything if it were only that - at the very least, if it is Louis CK, they're friends and probably knew each other's spouses already, which would be enough to make it a really inappropriate thing to do. She made it clear that she felt creeped out…

Well, it wasn't just that she was married - she says he was married too, which makes it quite a bit worse.

Kirkman never said it wasn't Louis C.K. She didn't name him specifically but she didn't say it wasn't him either.

Paget Brewster is such a delight in that role. Even if the other jokes aren't landing, I start laughing as soon as she swoops in.

The worst one would have to be one of the older ones that got an ugly cover when Criterion was still new and have yet to get a rerelease, like this terrible VHSy cover for The Silence of the Lambs: https://www.criterion.com/f…

Same - the added scenes feel important to me, and even though I understand why certain scenes got cut for the original version, I miss them when they're not there.

I saw the Redux first, and it's the one I prefer. The original may have more even pacing, and no missteps, but the slower, messier, richer Redux is the one that feels definitive to me, and after seeing it a second time (in the cinema!) I feel that even the extra scenes I didn't think necessary the first time around…

Ah, if it's a conspiracy I guess it makes more sense…. I read the plot for the first movie recently and since then I've been wondering how on earth such a plot would work. The Hunger Games is unrealistic but I can suspend my disbelief and buy it as an evolution of reality TV, but I couldn't grasp what the in-movie…

I thought of Altman recently when I watched this behind-the-scenes
clip from Too Late:
https://www.youtube.com/wat… A woman on a hill makes a call, the camera moves away from her to zoom in on a guy in a building a 10 minute drive away, who gets in a car; the camera returns to her for 10 minutes, at the end of which…

I love love love this movie. This was my first time seeing Robbins in a leading role and I've always looked forward to seeing him since then (amazing to see him in this and then The Hudsucker Proxy - I know playing different roles is what he does for a living but he commits delightfully to the latter film's cheerful…

Why not instead write new adventures with a new protagonist, Langdon's niece or nephew or unrelated child counterpart? I read some books with adult protagonists as a child but I far preferred the kid ones most of the time, and I don't remember Langdon being a character that would particularly thrill children. The…

Yeah … I haven't watched Survivor in a long time but I watched many seasons and I never felt too enthusiastic about the themed seasons and hoped the gimmick would run its course after the first episode. Which it usually did, so what was the point?

To me it felt far greater, especially since I didn't know there was going to be any portion of the book not told from Watley's perspective; when it suddenly switched to NASA I was startled, and their discovery that he was still alive was hugely exciting - whereas in the movie you knew it had to happen sooner or later…

"I'm sorry, is there a kettle or a clothing steamer in here?"

I wouldn't say so - see the reactions of (rightwing) Christian groups to the case of Terri Schiavo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi… They saw the removal of artificial life support as playing God.