Nice try but we know it's you, Portman.

Cage can be a godawful, scenery-chewing ham but he can also be magnificent in the right role and with a director who knows how to use that crazy person energy. I can totally see admiring his unique brand of acting.  

As long as Nancy gets to dump Ned.  What a stiff.  

Just saw it.  The pacing is weird.  The “buried alive” scene you mention is way earlier in the movie than you expect it to be.  The folks at Hammer would have known to save burying your hero alive until the climax.  Because, really, where do you go in terms of intensity after you’ve buried your hero alive?  The two…

On the one hand, yeah, the specifics of what is going on are meant to be saved for a reveal later on in the movie. On the other hand, that’s a pretty cliched “evil place” origin story (other than the WWII bombing detail, which the movie doesn’t really do anything with).

Loved him on The Bob Newhart Show.  Just the epitome of the clueless but well meaning friend.  Remember watching him in I Dream of Jeannie reruns as a kid and always enjoying his interactions with Jeannie, especially after he stopped scheming to become her master and just became her goofy buddy.  

The Black Mirror episode basically writes itself.

Absolutely agree about Plemons. Just a perfectly handled, multifaceted performance of a real creep. 

I will never understand why they had the dead child back story in Gravity.  It felt so unnecessary and so unconnected to the rest of the film.  

Mac’s desperate need to be loved continues to make me laugh so hard that I may be a Dennis-level sociopath underneath.  Dee deciding she would rather be the only girl than given the smallest amount of dignity felt perfectly in character.  I didn’t think the writing for Kaling was quite right.  She just came across as…

Clearly Mac will be the one missing Dennis the most.  But who misses Dennis the least? I would bet on Frank, who increasingly seems unaware of anything around him other than his basest instincts.  

Owens has been far more gracious and constructive about this than I would have been in his situation.  Just above every working actor, musician, artist, or creative writer I’ve met was holding down another job while pursuing their art.  How dare they try to make ends meet? 

I assume this cantina won’t have Mos Eisley’s discriminatory “no droids” policy.  Say no to hate, Mickey.  

Oh god, Kirby. Jean Smart was one of the bright spots of the later seasons but that son character was awful.

Crisis in Six Scenes was astonishingly awful.  It felt like no one involved had ever seen an episodic television show before.  

The good news for Seann William Scott is that he gets a high profile gig and almost no one outside of a small group of Crawford defenders is going to blame him when the revamped series crashes and burns.  

They could at least fix their Recommendations system. Popping up the new Kelsey Grammer Netflix movie because I was rewatching Frasier? Sure. Recommending The OA because my nephew was watching The Worst Witch? Maybe not. 

They don't tend to have the problems with sexism or racism that some fandoms do but Disney Parks obsessives can be unbearable. Half of them seem to want to burn everything down and start over and half of them will come for you if you suggest changing the trashcan design in Tomorrowland. It's just a bizarre mismatch in…

Christopher Robin was actually pretty charming for a movie engineered in a lab to be weapons grade adorable. 

Interesting cast and director but Wise's The Haunting and its Julie Harris/Claire Bloom combo is hard to beat. It would be nice to have a version that could really tackle the sexual repression undertones of the novel without going into the Jan de Bont ridiculousness.