I’m not a lawyer but I work for lawyers. Howard’s sentencing of Kim to document review may have been petty and unjustified, but it wasn’t beyond the pale. Documents need to be reviewed. There’s no indication that she lost seniority, just that she was in the doghouse until Howard says she wasn’t anymore. Yeah, she went …

I’m not necessarily disagreeing (if the cab driver is going to be significant, so be it; but I’ll wait until Gilligan MAKES him significant), but I’ve had cab drivers hang around for at least 2 minutes after dropping me off. If you have no REASON to feel nervous about that, you don’t feel nervous. If you’re looking for…

For all we know, the driver is talking to his dispatcher figuring out which way to go for his next fare. “Yeah, I was set for a $20 ride across town to the mall, but the asshole has me let him out when there’s only $8 on the meter. Have you got anything out here I can grab? If I have to drive back downtown on my own…

I actually learned a lot about filmmaking from Cat People (it helped that I was intimately familiar with it on a frame by frame level); things like angles and framing and compsition and editing... It was one of my first realizations that these were CHOICES that the director made, rather than things that just…

My first Schrader movie remains my favorite: Cat People. It’s kind of Ken Russell-ish, which can be either good or bad, but I loved it when it came out (I was 17, and it was one of my first R-rated movies) for reasons that are only PARTLY centered around a naked Nastassia Kinski...

One of the first LPs I ever owned: Fleetwood Mac, “Rumours”

*sigh*

Well sure, a shrine to Amy Santiago makes perfect sense, but a shrine to Amy AND Jake? That’s just sick...

Ok, yes, it should be stressed that one should never give chocolate to a dog. Nonetheless, there is a large body of anecdotal evidence concerning dogs who have eaten copious amounts of chocolate, at one sitting or regularly over long periods of time, and been fine. My dog once ate half of a one-pound chocolate sampler…

“Feeling less than” is a pop-psychology term for low self-esteem (specifically comparing yourself unfavorably to others, deservedly or not) and doesn’t usually take an object. If it were punctuated “Bob is feeling ‘less-than’” it might have been clearer, but I’ve little doubt that was intended be be complete as…

How do YOU know my nieces?

I don’t watch YouTube videos, but I have two teenage nieces. I think Gardner nails the character.

A) We saw what Barry had given her to work with beforehand, and she was furious about that. Sally would have wanted ANYTHING but that.

I really want to like Melissa Villasenor, but she’s not a great actress. The lines were funny, and her delivery of the lines was funny, but they both played the “two people being in bed together getting sexy” parts of it about as convincingly as sixth graders who aren’t really sure what it is people DO in bed…

Iron Man 2 has a shot Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlett Johansson walking up a staircase side by side, filmed from behind and below. No other movie, in the MCU or elsewhere, has a shot of Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlett Johansson walking up a staircase side by side, filmed from behind and below. Iron Man 2 is the greatest…

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“Knowing Me, Knowing...Wait, Don’t Tell Me...Dammit, What IS Your Name, Did We Go To University Together...?”

I want to mention that I disagree with the representation of Michelle Wiilliams’ character in the movie: they could easily have made her a cartoonish character, but instead she’s a strong character who’s cursed by a cartoonish voice (which is in keeping with the movie’s theme). She’s brilliant, and elevates every…

Confidence is not the magic ingredient that will make an unattractive person attractive. LACK of confidence, however, is a vibe-killer. Unless, of course, you run into a beautiful woman who hates herself, in which case you get yourself a great two weeks before you dump her because she’s depressing to be around. Take…

I think you’d remember if it was, in fact, you in the lineup.