Please. Riggs didn’t organize the Battle of the Sexes “as his way of proving to the world that women didn’t belong in the sport”. He organized the Battle of the Sexes in order to gain additional attention and money for his favorite thing, Bobby Riggs

My dream role for Adrienne Palicki: joining the crew of Legends of Tomorrow as Big Barda. Would settle for her returning to SHIELD as Bobbi though. This... mmm no, I don’t think so. Also her unfaithful ex-wife/ 2nd in command role seems ill-conceived & beneath her.

Unloaded a beautiful combo on my bus ride this morning:

Lockjaw needs to cross over to the Netflix Marvel shows. He could help Jessica Jones solve mysteries and provide security for her office!

To paraphrase Stephen King, “I’m going to make a movie where a child we have never met before is run over by a sentient steam roller and it will fucking rule, so bite me Gene Siskel.”

It’s interesting how that might align — in the book, we go from the conservatism of the 50s to the conservatism of the 80s while skipping over the looser 60s and 70s and now we’re starting in the conservatism of the 80s and skipping to, well, now.

Weirdly, all the kids die of this flu going around in the last 5 minutes.

So I can give you my experience of a precocious King reader, I’d definitely check with a librarian or YA expert (we used to have quite a few around here) for more expert opinion, especially on appropriateness.

It was a way to get from point A to point B, from no living dinosaurs to living dinosaurs. The mosquito DNA was the flux capacitor of Jurassic Park. The flux capacitor was just a drawing Doc Brown came up with after hitting his head, and then boom, time travel was possible. We were never told how it worked, just that…

“My name is Roland Deschain, and I need to talk with you about the Dark Tower initiative.”

Can’t you read? This is set in the 80s, clearly the monster being described is Max Headroom.

This makes me happy, that young kids who don’t know King are jazzed for this and may find their way to his books as a result. He’s a great author for teens (and middle-schoolers in particular, as Katie alludes to).

Yeah, The AV Club blurb above has no teeth behind its dismissal other than to say there’s too much superhero stuff already, so why bother. Then they go on to recommend The Runaways.

You watched It.
You can’t unwatch It.

Can’t sleep, clown’ll eat me.

I used to be with It. But then they changed what It was. Now what I’m with isn’t It and what’s It seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!

Exactly! Next you’re gonna say there’s no such thing as “Space Balls”!

I still want that flamethrower!

If you’re playing by this movie’s rules, you should find a pen you’re not using and hurl it.

“Through the course of my fascinatingly dull life, I’ve always found fiction so much more truthful than reality—and, yes, I’m aware of the irony”