Lithgow had not occurred to me for this role but he is great so why not.

I really enjoyed the original movie when I was younger. Watching it again after a couple of decades I was struck not only by how creepy the basic plot is (yeah, he does actively avoid trying to be romantic with her throughout most of the movie but it’s still not great to deceive and exploit a sick person) but what a…

Faris’s comedic talents haven’t ever really translated into good movie roles. Mom is a much better fit for her.

Bruce is awfully trusting for a traumatized orphan who knows his whole city is riddled with criminal conspiracies and who has been nearly murdered a couple dozen times.

Where did Ivy go? I was assuming at the beginning of this plot arc that she would be a big deal, what with the whole save the plants crusade.

I once worked for a fairly large corporation that had a department known as AAAS - Accounting Accounts Accounting Services. They provided accounting services for accounts which provided accounting services.

I’m always up for a new horror anthology, especially with Masters of Horror having fizzled out a decade ago and Channel Zero and American Horror Story being uneven (to say the least). Also, Bateman always has a look on his face like he’s about to snap so that seems like perfect casting.

I liked the music for the Netflix series. It had an appropriately synthy dread to it.

Spider-man affected me because he’s a scared kid. Brolin and Saldana play that final scene between them just perfectly. The saddest moment of the movie to me wasn’t a death - it was seeing the normally irrepressible Thor deeply traumatized during his conversation with Rocket.

My dad skipped all of those and the only thing that really confused him were the Civil War references in Infinity War.

Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson brought it. It was (intentionally) not much fun to watch them struggle to articulate their unhappiness and dissatisfaction but it was moving. The Middle was fine. I’m a little bummed about The Middle actually, which I think is going out on what is probably its weakest season.

When I first read that headline I was thinking of Fried Green Tomatoes and wondered why Martin Scorsese has this intense hatred of a Kathy Bates movie from the early ‘90s. I need a nap.

Like a bad diner, no substitutions are allowed.

One thing that struck me rewatching The Bob Newhart Show - one of the great traditional sitcoms of all time - is how few big laughs there are per minute compared to modern sitcoms like 30 Rock or Community. Part of it is simply a difference in style and pacing. Frankly, I have to rewatch shows like Veep to catch all…

Since he already has a Pulitzer, Miranda also only needs an Oscar to join the PEGOTers, which consist only of Richard Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch (somebody give Sondheim an Emmy).

Streisand is still short a Tony if you don’t count special awards. Maybe she and Springsteen should do a show together.

I love Reefer Madness. Cumming is hilariously funny in it. He doesn’t always get cast in the best movies but he’s often the best part of bad ones.

I get Gilliam’s attraction to the Don - he’s always had a thing for people who insist on their own version of reality. But this does not look promising at all.

I guess it’s pointless to put up a Spoiler warning on something this inherently spoilery but here we go, spoilers incoming . . . I’m just going to assume that characters are alive unless we actually seem them die onscreen. (Well, maybe unless they were on Xandar . . . did it seem strange to anybody else that the movie…

The climax didn’t have that big of an emotional impact on me but wow did that scene with Peter land. He’s just a scared kid who desperately wants to not die.