"Bugle" is also the noise that elk make when mating season is upon them…

Also he apparently has a strong second career adapting other people's work into screenplays. Which explains a lot about Hollywood's recent output…

He got to build a big theatre for his own productions instead of performing in someone else's and was patronized by royalty, so yeah, directly.

So is "Gaslight" a romance or not?

I wonder if for some of them, the logic goes, "I will be The Best Thing In This Mess, which a lot of people will nevertheless see—" it seems to have worked for Viola Davis, at least…

I think the problem isn't that she's ugly, but that she comes off as contemptuous of everyone else in the world — which isn't terribly surprising, given she lives in Hollywood, but it just isn't attractive. I'm bi and she dates girls, but I still wouldn't want to go with her, I'd rather be with somebody ordinary and…

Rolling in the hay! Golden, shiny, sunbeam-lit hay…

A friend of mine and I went to one a couple of years ago, because we thought it was a genuine suspense movie from the trailer (and didn't know it was a Sparks Special) — we were both thrown by the "She was a ghost all along!" twist and didn't know if it should be classed as cheating or not. But it wasn't completely…

A surprising number of people believe this!

The awesome thing that was Austen as done by bogans (tacky modern Australians) shows that this is possible…

Just imagine what scholars will make of such a line, in 2116….

There are some brilliant books from the last decade, tying the Salem panic both to early colonial history, in particular King Phillip's War and the English Civil War, and the psychic scars left by those, and forward to the "witch hunts" against suspected terrorists in the post-9/11 era. People descended from both…

I think it's easier to blame it on Others, on Evil Satanic Cultists, than to think that that nice presenter on the telly or that charming MP for your riding is preying upon the vulnerable — just as we saw with the Church and its defenders, many of whom were the first to believe in the Satanist Menace in America…

There's a reason why "leading the witness" is a problem with even adults in court — now add that pressure to unfinished growth brains and a child's inculcated desire to please grownups in charge, and BAM, you get the answer you feared all along…

Yes. What the hell happened to the man who made The Others? Did he get possessed by the spirit of a vengeful MRA?

To be fair, that's like every Guillermo del Toro movie!

They weren't considered "chick lit" at the time — one of the things that has survived time and her family's attempt to clean up her act for posterity is the fact that her brothers, who were navy officers a la Hornblower or Master & Commander, were sharing how hard it was to keep quiet when everyone they knew was…

Hollywood suffers from general societal lag, which includes not noticing that although The Walking Dead is still going and there are zombies of several sorts on GoT, the "zombie craze" is definitely whiffy by this poin…

The best thing in British high society of the time was to be a titled gentleman of leisure, the next best thing to be an officer — and the only proper officers were those of gentle birth, a point hammered home to risen-from-the-ranks upstart Richard Sharpe! — and then the Church was an acceptably-respectable…

But it gets funnier, and there is so much snark!