This is true - I'm sure the back half of Orson Welles's career was dismaying at the time, but no one thinks about it now. His name is synonymous with his best work.

Wikipedia says "The staff determine for each review whether it is positive ("fresh", marked by a small icon of a red tomato) or negative ("rotten", marked by a small icon of a green splattered tomato). (Staff assessment is needed as some reviews are qualitative rather than numeric in ranking.)".

That sounds fun - kind of like the AV Club's Pick a Choice!

That hot dog bun character design is hideous. I hate it every time I see it. I mean, they're all more or less bad but the hot dog bun design just makes no sense and it looks like they designed it around its suggestive possibilities rather than actual likeable or interesting character design.

Excellent!

If you click it again it stops it!

I'm confused, how does her deleting the tweets mean that she was hacked? I mean, maybe she was, but is it really that impossible to imagine her caring about Brexit when she lives in England? Why are people so suspicious? The Telegraph link offers no proof except for a weirdly sceptical "there is no way to confirm it's…

Finally!!! This has been in planning since I read this book in 2009, and probably for years before. It's one of my favourites. Every few years something pops up about how Polley still wants to do it but this is the first real news.

I saw #tealizard this morning and I've been thinking about it all day.

I never said only Americans would get this. I said:

No, and as I said, I am aware of what Jif peanut butter is. But I've never seen an ad, or if I have, they've been few and far between.

I've never seen an ad for it. I know it exists but I never encounter it aside from the odd reference by an American so why should that bother me? But my counterargument in that case was that "it sounds like the peanut butter!" is really only persuasive to an American, and is therefore a very personal argument and…

Haha! Whoops. I didn't watch it, to be honest. It doesn't seem like something worth making a 12 minute video about.

Yes!! The argument that the letters have to sound exactly the same as they do in the actual word has no particular precedent and this is a good example. Look at any list of acronyms and try to pronounce them the way the original letters are pronounced and you'll find yourself saying them quite differently than you…

People love to bring up the "hard g in graphics" argument, but it doesn't really make any sense. Letters in acronyms don't always sound the same way in the full
phrases. Example: SCUBA - the u is pronounced oo even though we don't
say oonderwater. Acronyms become their own words.

Chekov is one of the highlights of Star Trek for me - whenever I think of the movies, for some reason the first thing I think of is Chekov running
through the Enterprise at breakneck speed or trying to pronounce something in his cute Russian accent ("wictor wictor"!).

Well, to a certain extent, but following children and taking upskirt photos of women and throwing unknown liquids at people is something I blame the actual perpetrators for.

I learnt who Edward G. Robinson was because my dad told me that's where Chief Wiggum's voice came from!

Sheesh, that's appalling. They really think they own celebrities.

The UK has a law that prevents them from publishing the kids' faces, but all that means is that the tabloids blur the faces. They're still lurking around taking pictures of strangers and their kids and doing the bare minimum to reduce the children's exposure. I don't know how you could stand doing that sort of thing…