For a show about two genuine artistic geniuses they don’t seem much interested in one of them, at least not yet. Verdon was maybe the greatest musical comedy actress/dancer in the history of Broadway. She was a Tony winning star before she ever worked with him. Framing this as his story in which she’s the long…

Dear Eva Green, I am sure the paychecks are great but please stop answering Tim Burton's phone calls. You're better than late period Burton. 

Yes, it was boring. But it did make me go relisten to the cast recording for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, so that's good. 

Pet Sematary, first the remake and then rewatching the original. Look, the original movie is far from good and some of the acting is downright terrible but you have Gwynne as the perfect incarnation of a King character and the movie captures some of the primal fears that the book is about. The remake is unquestionably…

The one thing that really sticks with me from this book (which is maybe the only good King novel I’ve never reread) is the mounting sense of dread as you feel Louis creep towards an understandable but catastrophic choice. He’s a basically good man undone by grief, his own flaws, and (particularly in the book) the aura…

I have already forgotten what Cam and Mitchell did in this episode.  No, literally, I can’t remember a thing about that plot.  They were on, right? Is it me or is Luke slowly morphing into a male version of Haley from several seasons ago? “Attractive dummy who makes questionable dating choices.”  You can’t have two…

I'm a big defender of the live action Cinderella, which largely abandoned fan service references or exactly copying the original in favor of more complex characters (hey, the stepmother has her reasons for being so cruel and the prince actually has a personality this time). It had actual charm and not just nostalgia…

This was a weird one, in that I felt that the underlying story and character conflicts were unusually strong for a late season Simpsons episode but it just wasn’t particularly funny. Marge and Homer are believably conflicted about how much of the family’s resources and time go to nurturing their gifted child. Lisa…

Santa Clarita Diet, season 3. Still a very funny, surprisingly warm show with one of the more happily married couples on TV (covering up murder is apparently a bonding activity). I may feel differently on rewatch but this is probably my least favorite season so far. There’s a couple of major plots that get dropped…

Please, everybody knows the true DC fan goes for The Adventures of Bob Hope (which somehow lasted for twenty damn years).

Scrooge McDuck’s Moneybin piggy bank that says “grazie” when you drop a coin in.

I've got a TARDIS cookie jar on my desk. I had to take the batteries out because hearing the materialization noise everytime something brushed it got old.

Was Jackson the sole female inductee this year? I thought Stevie Nicks was also getting inducted for her solo career.

I like this show a lot but you really don't want to think too hard about the timeline here. Among other things Eric's mother has already moved on from her husband's disappearance and is publicly living with his former partner in about two weeks time and Abby has gone from surly teen who wants a new car to eco bomber…

I thought last week’s episode was great, hilarious but building to that heartbreaking moment where Shannon just lets everything pour out and I suddenly got how much this funny/sad season has been about this family grieving. This show is very funny but it constantly amazes me how Yorke and Tarver can instantly go from…

There's really nothing in the text of the play to establish their ages and, yeah, Shakespeare pretty clearly didn't care about fidelity to the historical person. I do think the play comes across differently if you make them an older, childless couple rather than a younger couple because their anxieties about their…

Nothing says excellent legal representation like "unindicted co-conspirator." I believe that was the original subtitle of Perry Mason. 

I'm not sure "casting director said actress's mother disliked script of 20 year old movie" qualifies as news. How slow a news day is it?

I didn’t hate Into the Woods, though it did jettison a lot of the second act. I would love a good Gypsy remake. The Russell one is pretty mediocre and the Midler one for TV manages to be both super-faithful to the stage show and kind of boring. I’ve always thought Passion could make a great small scale movie but given…

With you on Sweeney Todd. I basically pretend the filmed production with Lansbury is the movie version. I've never seen the filmed A Little Night Music because I've been told it's dreadful by pretty much everybody.