Please let this be the plot of the inevitable Fleetwood Mac Broadway musical.

Because there’s an intrinsic interest in learning how the fictional universe you’re invested in became the fictional universe you’re invested in? I think some of the better prequels (the flashback parts of The Godfather Part 2; books like Wicked or Wide Sargasso Sea; the better parts of Rogue One, etc.) give us a…

Nelson getting all Freddy Kruegered was a weird joke for a non-Treehouse of Horror episode.

Nah, Cthulhu is still in the grays himself; you got to sacrifice to Nyarlathotep, who works as a moderator.

There was a smarter, funnier plot buried in the Marge and Lisa story. Let Lisa be horrified by the book, both for its racism and for its assumptions about how girls should behave. Have Marge cling to her nostalgia and only come around after really talking to Lisa. Instead we got a plot where Marge basically acted like…

Ghost of Slumber Mountain is such a weird little fragment of a movie. Obviously the plot was just an excuse to cram in dinosaurs but it’s so oddly over-complicated. Kind of like the scenario for Creation, the scrapped movie whose parts got fitted into King Kong.

Watched the second season of A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix. Love the look of the show, love the music, love the choice of Warburton, and they get the morose humor of the books right. The two older Baudelaires get more morally complex parts to play this time around and both actors handle it well. Really…

It takes time to set up camera tricks and use doubles so hobbits and dwarves are now just slightly shorter actors. Middle-Earth is now less epic and breathtaking and more “Starbucks parking lot.” Wizards wear bathrobes covered with product placement stickers, somewhat like NASCAR drivers. No battle can have more than…

That seems to be the basic idea. Although it sounds like a risky idea, sort of like how they inserted all of that padding - some of it vaguely connected to the appendices, some of it just wholly invented - to fill out The Hobbit movies.

I still can’t wrap my head around the concept of a billion dollar TV show. For that money you could probably buy a small country and turn the entire thing into an elaborate reality show. Or recreate the ideal NBC Thursday night line-up - let’s say Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends, 30 Rock, ER - and use CGI for any dead or…

Citizens of Gotham, much like citizens of Springfield, have a “never give up, never think things through” spirit.

There’s a Takahata version of Anne of Green Gables? Why have I never seen this? That sounds like a wonderful choice of texts for him to adapt.

I enjoyed a Lee plot for once - she’s a much better character when not wholly defined by her relationship with Gordon. Her plan was high-risk but actually pretty clever.

The performance has grown on me. Sort of a balance between Ledger’s chaos-loving Joker and Nicholson’s homicidal prankster Joker. Jerome was almost poignant for a second here.

Love the Newton idea.

But the only thing that gives the novel any weight is the idea that Rob’s obsessions are a small part of his refusal to develop into a functional adult in a functional relationship. It’s supposed to be bittersweet.

I like Lawrence in the right role but Kravitz is an interesting pick (if still a little on the young side for an experienced professor with a PhD).

Are we talking “smart and competent Marcus” from Raiders or “affable but befuddled Marcus” from Last Crusade? Denholm Elliott played both beautifully but they are almost two different characters with the same name. Raiders Marcus? Viola Davis. Last Crusade Marcus? Kathy Bates.

No, but I would pay to see a tag team fight with Diesel/Margulies on one side and Johnson/Panjabi on the other.

Would the cardboard cutout give speeches about Family? Because that’s honestly all I remember him doing in those movies.