I work in the post office, and we were constantly doing Aliens. I say “we,” because there were more than a few of us who knew the movie back to front, and could use it to relate to some of the BS that was regularly thrown at us.

“This little girl survived with no weapons and no military training of any kind!”
“Well, put…

At the moment, I only have one streaming service available to me, and that streaming service is Criterion’s.

“love action remake” is much better than the phrase you were trying to write.

I’ve probably listened to Lulu Wang’s segment on This American Life, featuring this story, about a hundred times, and I am incredibly excited to be able to see it the way she wanted. Meanwhile, I haven’t seen Crazy Rich Asians yet, because I think it’s problematic, these days, to make “crazy rich” people into likable…

Don DeLillo, White Noise:

“Animals commit incest all the time, so how unnatural can it be?”

Our current president is proof of that.

In the first Thor movie, Mjolnir goes to Thor after he's been struck down by the Destroyer, so it's been "sentient" since then.

That’s why the Batman is a creature of the night. NIGHT.

Folding Ideas is my personal favorite.

His recent Elmore Leonard homage trilogy (Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, & End of Watch) might be the best books he ever wrote.

(Over two years later)

Not really spoilers, because even in the trailers, you see that Colin Firth’s Harry character has come back from the dead, and he was shot in the head. Roxy/Lancelot’s character can probably come back too, if the writers/director choose to, if there’s a third film (oh, who am I kidding, the second grossed more than…

You beat me to it. “Conscious” for “conscience” was so egregious it threw me out of the article.