I totally concur. Sure “Time Enough At Last” was written during a time when all out nuclear war was a distinct possibility, but it isn’t actually about that. “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” is very clearly about bigotry and fear, but it manages to tell a captivating tale, with a truly unexpected twist at the…

“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? How’d you get it to stay up there?”

So Anthony Burgess hated Kubrick for what he did to his novel, Stephen King hated Kubrick for what he did to his novel. I’m waiting for a newly discovered letter from William Makepeace Thackeray in which he talks about his vision of a man not yet born, but whom he somehow hates for what he will do to his novel.

Laszlo and Nadja’s familiar dying an agonizing death (with dialogue optional) is going to be a running gag of the series, isn’t it?

As the 1967 version of Casino Royale taught us all, making a James Bond movie quirky and funny can’t possibly  go wrong.

At what point does the main character end up in long conversations with his alcoholic actor father and his dreamy drug-addicted mother trying to make them confront his own tuberculosis?

Remember, if life gives you sweet potatoes, then make sweet potato pie . . . without sugar . . . or cinnamon . . . wait, that’s stupid. Don’t do that.

It’s H.L. Mencken, not P.T. Barnum.

“...that film Bill Durham.”

Principal Spoors wrote the review but then he had a conference he had to attend. His brother-in-law will publish it later.

Pronzini also admitted, in an introduction, that the Nameless Detective also had a last name : Pronzini. Which as he said “is an ok name for a writer but a LOUSY name for a private eye.”

Hooray! We solved racism forever! Just like we did in 2014 when 12 Years A Slave won Best Picture and 2006 when Crash won and 1990 when Driving Miss Daisy won and 1994 when Schindler’s List won and 1991 when Dances With Wolves won and 1962 when West Side Story won and 1948 when Gentleman’s Agreement won and 1932 when C…

Sounds like someone was spending too much time in The Altered States of Drugachusetts  and it wasn’t Sid and Marty Krofft this time!

I found myself oddly annoyed that the end of the shutdown and the arrest of Roger Stone happened on Friday as my thought was “Oh, great, that means SNL gets the first crack at the materiel. Guess I’ll have to wait until Monday for actual cutting commentary.”

AOC 2028: IF WE DON’T ALL DIE BEFORE THEN

I’m genuinely shocked that both Mitch and Lin made it out of this episode alive, as they seemed like prime “kill them off for pathos” Doctor Who guest characters. Talk about a New Year’s Day miracle!

And now having watched the episode, that’s pretty much exactly what happens (except without the appearance of Brooker himself). Of the endings I’ve seen, the choices are between bleak (most of them) and silly (one). Any attempt to choose a psychologically sound reaction, results in the film literally saying “Wrong…

If you try to choose a happy ending, Charlie Brooker shows up and laughs at you for your naivete.

And somewhere on some distant plane of existence, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are high-fiving each other that they no longer have the credit for the worst Sherlock Holmes movie ever made.

But what is The Magnificat but Mary giving consent? Zeus, now THERE’S a sexual predator/deity. What myth of his is NOT himself forcing himself on some human woman while disguised as a bull or a swan or a golden shower?