I remember when I was happy and naive enough to love Jens Lekman. Now I just listen to "The Chain" and "Go Your Own Way" on repeat for my music.

With all these movie-to-tv show premises, how is National Treasure NOT an adaptation of the Nic Cage classic?

Kaitlin Olsen is a treasure, and I hope this somehow fits with fox's overall network strategy well enough to merit a full season or renewal.

You can rewatch it later if that would help

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In theory, yes. But in reality, it'd take at least two hours to set up the meeting, allow me to get on her computer to make the change, and then walk her through whatever other problems she's facing.

They do, but Word automatically converts " into the curly kind. So if you get an old person writing an email in Word, then copy/pasting it into Gmail before sending it, you have to un-convert them. Thanks, inefficient old people!

As a fellow content person, this is one of the most annoying problems I know I can never explain to the 57 year old secretary who asks me to send her Word docs as emails. I'm cursed to find & replace a stupid quotation mark until the day I die (or switch jobs).

The Prometheus trailer was one of the best I've ever seen. This trailer was not - kind of like The Force Awakens, but for Alien nostalgia - so that may mean good things for Covenant.

"I still check the toilet every time."
"It's true! He does!"

D'oh!

???

Did this actually happen? Enough said.

Yeah, it's clear Marling or whoever wrote this doesn't have a grasp on how real people live. Too many things like that which felt like they'd heard of public school but never actually been.

The OA is one of those works that retroactively makes flaws in the artist's previous works more apparent, retroactively making them worse. Marling and Batmanglij are so out of touch with normal life – what high school wouldnt expel someone for punching a star singer in the throat, opening the school to a lawsuit? –…

Not only that, she paid for a year of Feeln, a streaming service dedicated to awful Hallmark Channel movies and their ilk. (The app didn't work on her tablet, but she refuses to request a refund because that wouldn't be polite.)

I think there's a place for nice, but the nice-ness of Sing seems more manipulative than genuinely kind. But I'm a crotchety ass, so maybe that's just my jaded self.

This fucking movie. I'll be glad when this cynical, middle-brow, idiot thing is gone. These are the kinds of jokes my awful mother would enjoy not because they're funny or enjoyable, but because they're "nice".

I don't get the complaints about CGI faces. Other than a few shots of CGI Peter Kushing, I thought it was really effective and made me excited about the future of movies. If anything, the aging voice of James Earl Jones was more distracting than the CGI ghosts.

It’s brilliant and powerful if you’re 14. The film had some interesting visuals, but it’s not what I would consider a “smart” film - or at least not as smart as it thinks it is.