His obituary for Richard Nixon remains a classic:

And for what it's worth, Whedon played a big role in a lot of that initial planning.

I’ve already purchased tickets to see this at the drive-in on Friday. Looking forward to it.

My favorite scenes from movies that didn’t make the list:

He’s great in everything, but I think my favorite role of his was Enabran Tain in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His time there was mostly lots of scenery chewing with Andrew Robinson, another great character actor, and it was just wonderful.

Granted! “At your worst” is relative, just as “at your best” is relative. Everything is relative. And Dahl’s antisemitism is a pretty bad worst (somewhere on the scale between your hypothetical dickishness to your family, and actually pulling a Hitler). But I did not perceive in the family’s statement an attempt to…

I got a code for an advance screening of the film tonight (which isn’t TOO advance, as everyone else can watch it tomorrow), and I’m looking forward to it. It’s a truly shameful event upon which more light needs to be shined and I hope this documentary helps accomplish that.

Dune was the best of the big budget trailers I saw this year, as best I can recall.

I didn't think it was odd, either. They were saying his antisemitism was Dahl at his absolute worst (which is pretty clearly a condemnation of those beliefs) and reminding people that the awful stuff you say will hang around forever.

He was just like Bugs Bunny, really.

“...and, yes, some theaters—near you. And before trekking out to see a movie on the big screen, please read up on the health risks.”

Unrelatedly (pun somewhat intended), there’s actually a film where Hiddleston goes skinny dipping rather than just narrating it, Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated. Great film.

“Side note: I just checked wiki and “You make me wanna ...” was released TWENTY-THREE years ago!”

Yeah, that’s a great film, and Heller’s direction of it was wonderful. I just brought up Lupino and Arzner specifically because they were directing films in that era when Lolita was written and when Kubrick directed his film adaptation. Nowadays there are a lot more successful women directors (though still not…

Make sure to stretch your calves first, though.

“How has every man (and it is all men, oops) who has directed an adaptation of this story said with confidence that it’s a love story?”

I can’t say what’s in her heart (no one can), but she’s certainly expressed more open anti-racism then Deen has. So, so far, she’s a-okay in my book.

I’m also amused that both Olyphant and Brown had major roles in the Scream franchise.

Not gonna lie, as great as everything else was about this episode, my favorite thing about it was Timothy Olyphant playing the marshal of a frontier mining town and W. Earl Brown playing the saloon barkeep.