Sadly, this wasn’t all that far from real life. In the 1950s my Mom was diagnosed with MS. The Doctor told my DAD and then they both told my Mom that nothing was wrong with her. All those little symtoms like blurred vision, feeling weak, etc? They were all in her imagination. It was not a good thing when she finally…

This is seriously the only football content I care to consume. It is the best.

Joining the celebration at the return of Block & Tackle.

I actually did give up the NFL in 2017 from the combined ethical sadness over the CTE reports and Kaepernick fall out (I am pro-Kaepernick and abasic understanding of clearly explained symbolic gestures and anti-police brutality and really, really stupid…

I’m pretty sure this is the most A+ #1 article written about footsball in the history of mankind.

This is terrible, Tom. And hurtful. Every year, dozens of beatific young women die of Ali McGraw’s Disease and despite decades of research we are still no closer to a cure. And pieces like this that downplay the very real effects -- husbands feeling bad, husbands moping, husbands seeing a decline in their racquetball…

“foregone conclusions and easily Googleable facts”

I mean....

Am I alone in wanting to watch a rom-com solely focused on a character who typically would be the friend of a main character in these movies? Like I’d much rather have watched a movie about Mindy Kaling or Jake Johnson than Natalie Portman or Ashton Kutcher.

But what about them as the two leads in a rom-com? Would you see Timberlake singing a slow, ballad-y version of an old pop hit to stop Kutcher from getting on a train to a new life before Kutcher says, “I hate that song” and kisses him, indicating his willingness to stay and help raise Timberlake’s daughter from a…

Huh... Aston Kutcher *does* have a twin brother, but he’s a fraternal twin. They aren’t identical. Michael Kutcher is actually rather interesting- he’s a national advocate for people with cerebral palsy, a condition he himself shares.

I think he’s fantastic in Social Network, where he both leans into his persona (a “rock star” programmer played by a literal music star) and away from it (I love the scene where the cops ask if he has drugs, and its his asthma inhaler). He’s also good in Inside Llewellyn Davis, though that isn’t a huge or super…

Forgetting Sarah Marshall is one of my all time favorites. I had a comment in one of these previous articles singing its praises even.

Easy A is one of the best comedies of all time, so everything is in its shadow.

Well I finally just watched Friends With Benefits on the strength of this review, and I gotta say it was a great time. Not sure why everyone has to shit on Justin Timberlake, who did a great job in this, but I do think that Mila Kunis deserves a huge amount of credit. She is just ridiculously charming. Richard Jenkins…

Ooo, I want to play.

Don’t forget Olympus Has Fallen vs. White House Down! That was a weird one.

As I said, there were definitely a good number of reasonable opponents on the show (though Alda’s character, who postdated Sorkin’s time on the show, was implausible as a GOP presidential nominee even at the time).

Sort of like trying to explain why a movie you haven’t seen must be better than the person who has seen it says it is, then?

Well, there’s also the fact that it literally was a Disney movie.

While I was very impressed with Michelle Williams, I think you can say part of the performance was the impersonation, which you can call mannered. It fits the era and the look and idea that women then were always putting on a show for the men in their lives ... but it’s still very actress-y. Whereas Adams was a…