The Wheel of Time may be the only book series I’ve ever totally given up on twice, first with Crossroads of Twilight (where nothing happens across an almost unbelievable number of pages) and then trying to come back and being confronted with New Spring (really, a prequel novel when the main plot has been stalled for…

It’s so easy to score points against something like God’s Not Dead, which is hopelessly melodramatic and mostly badly made and filled with ridiculous stereotypes of “godless liberals” and the like. Instead this episode mostly focused on Bart and Homer lying to Marge for roughly the three hundredth time in the series.…

That was surprisingly effective.  Frodo Mouse Lives!

Keep McAvoy and Fassbender and just do another reboot. Lawrence seemed so very bored with her part in Apocalypse.  

This is the part of an AHS season I usually like best, when they have piled a lot of crazy unexplained crap on top of everything but before they almost inevitably botch tying things together.

Mead’s line about the relentlessly dull young couple made me laugh. Surely, given her nanny relationship to the Anti-Christ, the movie should have been The Omen. I don’t love the instant doubling down on Coven’s biggest problem, which is that death became completely meaningless, but I did like their big entrance.

Speaking of character stagnation: Haley is the only one of the kids who has gotten anything like a satisfying character arc over the years, with her slowly becoming a more responsible and caring person, but bringing Dylan back just puts her back at square one. Shoving another kid onto the show feels so unnecessary.…

Maybe I should have seen the Dennis being behind it twist coming but I did not. My jaw dropped. 

I’ve never seen The Gospel According to St. Matthew but I have always intended to. We were supposed to watch it in a film class but the professor changed to Salo since he decided he was retiring that semester and had nothing to lose. 

Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Writer Cornel Wilde marries Gene Tierney, who gradually reveals a jealous streak which leads to one of the more cold-blooded murders you’re ever going to see (she watches her own teenage brother-in-law drown after intentionally exhausting the recovering polio patient). It’s a strange mix of…

Yeah, this pilot felt super old fashioned, like a show airing after Murder She Wrote. Danza is a charming guy but that's part of the problem, since his character should rightly be shunned for abusing his position all those years. Groban can also be a charming guy but he's stuck with a charisma free character. It did…

You might try dealing with their obvious psychological problems first. Dennis is a straight up psychopath. Charlie is detached from reality. Dee seems severely depressed. Mac has classic symptoms of abuse. Frank seems to be going senile.

Making Adina Porter a big part of the ensemble is one of the smarter choices this show has made in the last few seasons but give her something to do. She and Evan Peters did look particularly fabulous in their purple formalwear. Timmy and his lady love continue to be very pretty nothing characters. This seemed awfully…

His inability to praise anyone without simultaneously cutting them down to size - like his comments on Tina Fey and Eddie Murphy in the article - is just pure asshole. 

The scene of Dee doing beer to wine conversions in her head was hilarious. Of course that would be her secret skill.

I loved this book as a kid, partly because Bellairs seemed totally uninterested in imparting wisdom or lessons like so many other kids books. Unless "leave hellish evils alone" is a lesson.

You know, if you meet someone willing to debate whether this is Batman's canonical penis, do not let that person into your life.

Also born in 1961: Barack Obama. Granted, I don't think he'll do an Eddie Murphy comedy but I would pay to see it.

Ernie can do better than Bert. Live your truth and realize he's a dud.

I found The Land of Steady Habits deeply frustrating. It's a bunch of terrific actors without much to do in several cases and the pacing in some scenes is glacial. That said, she's an interesting filmmaker who deserves better than leading questions and a clickbait title.