To borrow an all time great plot synopsis from The Good Place: "Various events occur, in a certain specific order." The last two days online have taught me that literally any other statement about the finale causes yelling. 

I loved him on Penny Dreadful. The character could so easily have become just an uncomfortable "wise elder" stereotype but he invested it with so much regret and sadness and he and Dalton played against each other so well. 

A recapper once dubbed him Bruce Unmighty, which stuck with me.

Peter Rabbit grossed 350 million worldwide. The CGI/live action Jungle Book almost broke a billion. Prepare to be flooded with these. 

Popstar has entered my rotation of "feel better" movies, along with stuff like Young Frankenstein and Galaxy Quest - movies that just make me happy no matter what. For a music doc parody it has a surprisingly sweet touch at times. So I am willing to see where this goes.

On my recent rewatch of BSG I was really struck by how much she improves as an actor over the course of the series. She has a great screen presence right from the beginning but by later seasons she’s really pulling off a layered, complex performance(s). I don’t trust Van Helsing to do anything more complex than “scary…

Tim Meadows showing up periodically to not quite offer Tolkien drugs could only have improved this movie. 

She's so underrated in The Man Who Knew Too Much. Even her performance of that ultra-earworm "Que Sera Sera" is filled with this tension as she seems about to implode from stress. 

Counterpoint: it is becomingly slightly less sad to watch very sad things happen to people who are increasingly kind of jerks.

Hot people bickering while getting involved in exotic hijinks is kind of my thing but this didn't click with me. Kind of hoping they could course correct and develop better chemistry. 

Catherine Deneuve. A superb actress but also stylish and sexy as hell without ever seeming to give a damn about it. 

I watched Funny Face recently and when all of the fashion people kept complaining about her character's squareness I wanted to yell at the screen. She exudes coolness. 

Unsurprising but a shame. The show balanced heart and humor as well as any family sitcom on the air. Kyla Kenedy's Dylan gradually became a favorite character for me. 

Manny is the worst but I did think the "whatever happened to yes and?" line was pretty funny.

I thought Qualley sort of quietly walked away with the whole episode. She’s trying to look out for Bob and genuinely cares about him while also unsure about her place in this whole situation and unsure of what compromises she’s willing to make in this relationship. Her three very different conversations with Paddy,…

I didn’t like it nearly as much as you did - partly because it didn’t quite fully commit to the format break, like Behind the Laughter did - but Schreiber was an unexpectedly great guest voice.

Kiki's Delivery Service, which is all about leaving home, taking on adult responsibilities, and making more mature friendships.

Yep, she is ridiculous levels of charming in both of the Happy Death Day movies.  Her performance is the only thing keeping the weirdly complicated sequel at all grounded.  Glad she’s getting a high profile role.  

Isn’t Seth Rogen essentially the same level of attractiveness as Ron Livingston (who played her husband in Tully), Seth MacFarlane (who played her love interest in A Million Ways to Die in the West), or Jason Bateman (who played her husband in Hancock)? Those are all fairly average-looking dudes.  I don’t know that…

It’s a little known fact that one of Martin Luther’s 95 theses was about how the Pope kept spoiling plot points.