Get on board for The Grinch Cinematic Universe.  Cindy Lou Who’s Easter Adventure.  Max’s Thanksgiving Heist.  A Roast Beast Flag Day.  (None of them could be as weird as Halloween is Grinch Night.)

The Book of Life was such a visually stunning movie. I'm intrigued.

Baldwin is one of the worst interviewers I've ever seen. He seems incapable of even pretending to listen to the other person. 

I plan on voting early, then spending the rest of the day annoying everyone around me by reminding them to vote. I apologize in advance for irritating people by saying “Hey, have you voted yet?” every five minutes until the polls close but, you know, sorry not sorry, democracy, etc.  After that I will be watching the…

Sometimes liking a show means wanting it to bow out before it so completely overstays its welcome that all good will is burned off. 

The keywords Moe bought were really the best joke of the episode and a serious window into his mind.

I love that this Doctor is a tech nerd who gets super enthusiastic about science and tech. This episode really was oddly paced. There are two different life threatening dangers and neither of them really felt that urgent because we kept stopping for scenes that were nicely acted and decent ideas but kept killing the…

My one big problem with the new Halloween was “new Loomis.”  That character and the role he played in the plot seemed pretty unnecessary.

My mother used to have a rule that she wouldn’t decorate for Christmas until the Hallmark Channel did their first Christmas movie marathon. Now they do one like every single month.

Finally got around to watching a box set of the complete Max Headroom TV series I bought a couple of years ago. I was slightly too young to watch its brief run back on ABC but vaguely remember watching it later on cable (I think on Bravo back when Bravo would show acclaimed but short-lived shows like this?). It now…

I like that you kept it classy and avoided Avatar 2: Electric Bluegaloo.

I like that you kept it classy and avoided Avatar 2: Electric Bluegaloo.

The Way of Water and The Seed Bearer do instantly lend themselves to pee and semen jokes but I don't know that these titles are any worse than half of the high fantasy novel titles I've seen. 

I rewatched the 1960 version recently and, charmingly dated special effects aside, it holds up remarkably well. It's relatively faithful to the original novel in a lot of ways and has some memorable images, like the world's last books crumbling to dust in his hands.

And would inevitably name-drop her “friends” like The Master, Davros, The Rani . . . 

Tahani's insight about the destructiveness of how their parents treated them was way more interesting than the pretty predictable beats of the Eleanor plot, as good as Bell and Grossman are. But even that had a pretty unsatisfying ending. I'm not completely sold on this new iteration of the show as "let's save…

Call me a bigot but I do not approve of rock legend/replicant marriages. 

I love Penny Dreadful - I've called the second season my favorite TV season ever - but no Green, no interest.

That's my problem. A lot of the main or guest cast is filled with good actors - Elliott and Winger, of course, but also folks like Kathy Baker or Jim Beaver - but they're all wasted here.

I had forgotten about Camila the chicken.  Sadly, I think Kamilah is named that because it means “perfect” or “flawless” in Arabic - which, of course, she is.