Rob Astorino, not Rob Long. Astorino is the Westchester County Executive, a right-wing radio station executive who (I believe) nobody outside of Westchester had ever heard of. He was being talked up for positions in Trump’s administration, but it seems his star has dimmed.

Really? Wow, what a dope!

“Ethics involves things like hurting people. Mr. Cushing is completely unimpacted by these events.”

Dot just needs a good impressionist.

That struck me too. Spoken like someone who hasn’t seen the movie ... ever. Which seems odd for someone who produced it.

Context is everything. As is the cost for which the movies were made (including an allowance for marketing). For example, I see most outlets quoting $250 million as the production budget for BvS, with projections as high as $420 million if marketing is included. Using the higher figure, the movie’s worldwide gross of…

Not without Barf and Dot! RIP John Candy and Joan Rivers.

James, I am not in the business, so I might be totally wrong about the following. But I took a look at the Screen Rant post you cited and even it admits that casting calls sometimes don’t reflect accurately the actual cast (though it also says that the closer to the start of filming the casting call comes out, the…

I’ve not seen the movie, but the premise as described in this review is more awful than “robbing her of 60 years of life on the new planet and forcing her to live the rest of her life on a ship.” He is taking ownership of her: he decides to wake her — depriving her of the ability to determine what kind of life she…

“Do you think Harry was the only one?”

Okay, so clearly my recollection of the books is faulty. It’s been years since I read them. My apologies.

Have neither read nor seen Cursed Child.

This sounds almost like a concept for a different series of stories in the Potterverse. As I remember the books, family members tended to be sorted into the same houses, with whole families in Gryffindor or Slytherin over generations. I can’t recall a single instance where a student was sorted into a different house…

I don’t have an issue with Nardole as a continuing character, per se (I’m not really familiar with Matt Lucas’s other work, so my impression is based only on his performance in last year’s Christmas special). But I wonder if it’s a vote of no confidence from the producers and/or the BBC for Bill, the new companion.…

I didn’t even make it that far. Husband and I watched through the mid-season finale for season 6. When Rick and company walked out into the crowd of walkers covered with goo, we looked at each other and said simultaneously, “didn’t they do that back in season 1?” We have not been back since.

Just another demonstration that creators don’t necessarily have the best understanding of their creations. It’s totally unnecessary to import the “‘I’ve read your file, mate’” concept into this to explain Gaff’s manner toward Deckard when the much more obvious explanations are: (1) he’s a suck-up trying to impress his…

Yes, I agree (and thanks for the compliment). I didn’t mean to suggest that the two phenomena were unrelated. But the key difference is selective pressure. In the animal-breeding situation, the selective pressure comes from humans actively selecting for certain traits and breeding away from others. In that respect, I…

I didn’t watch The X-Files, so can’t comment on that. But for the rest, I respectfully disagree.

You’re right about the use of C-Sections to whelp bulldogs (I knew that about English Bulldogs, was unaware that it was also the case with Frenchies). But I don’t think that is really an example of evolution as much as it is of guided breeding for particular characteristics. As I understand it, evolution is a natural…

“Countrycide,” “Adrift,” and “Fragments.”