She was (is?) smart as a whip and a great performer, going as far back as Patriot Games.

Her father ruined her career. She seemed destined for greatness after American Beauty and Ghost World. At the time, the idea that Scarlett Johansson would be the one from GW to go on to superstardom would have seemed an outlandish…

Oh, I only just saw that. Very sorry to have missed your rubbish post from a year ago.

Jane Seymour most assuredly did not have her head chopped off. She died from postnatal complications, two weeks after giving birth to Henry’s ill-fated male heir Edward VI.
Henry had two of his wives beheaded: Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.

> so if your collection has a Last Jedi shaped hole in it

Funnily enough, it does. 

> so if your collection has a Last Jedi shaped hole in it

Funnily enough, it does. 

20 mins is fast. That job is a PITA, not least because of the wifi antenna. 

I enjoy pretending to read the official contents of drug store pill containers out loud to partners, and always starting with, “INGREDIENTS: PLACEBO, GUAR GUM, PECTIN”.

I had cancer last year and had several surgeries that involved copious antibiotics. Although I didn’t have to undergo chemotherapy, I could tell that my immune system was garbage for several months afterwards (and I’m not convinced it will ever be back to how it was before). My subjective instinct is that blitzing gut…

You have the worst president in the country’s history right at the point of greatest national peril since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Sorry.

Err, you mean a logarithmic scale, which is entirely standard for data of this type?

Or the creature in Abrams’ Spielberg homage Super 8.

I think they “Keys” character (Peter Coyote) genuinely wants to meet and communicate with E.T. with all his heart. (“Elliott, he came to me, too. I’ve been wishing for this since I was 10 years old.”)

It’s not uncommon in movies from the 70s and early 80s. “Alien” uses it a lot, for instance.

It’s a terrific movie, although be prepared for how small-scale the story is. It’s a very intimate piece of work; almost a chamber piece, despite its theme of intergalactic friendship.

Also: it contains some of the best work John Williams ever did, and not just the best-known cues. (“Toys” is exquisite, for example.)

You missed out Tron, which, while in some ways clunky, is a fucking *incredible* pop culture milestone, both technically and conceptually. It is so easy to underestimate (or simply have no idea about) the sheer number of concepts that Tron introduced to the cultural landscape. It still blows my mind what an ambitious…

“Star Wars is all over the place. Elliott shows E.T. his collection of random Empire Strikes Back action figures. Michael impersonates Yoda.”

It absolutely nails what it was like to grow up as a Gen-X kid, certainly a *male* Gen-X kid, with Star Wars just EVERYWHERE - it was a cultural landscape in which the toys and…

In part because Battle Beyond The Stars is fuckin’ ace. 

Trump has absolutely no idea how dumb he is. None. 

Twatmobile?

The Kardashians yesterday

> I’d grab this deal before it’s gone.

> I’d grab this deal before it’s gone.

I don’t get it.