Not all of Musk’s companies have gone bankrupt, so he’s not exactly like Trump ... yet.

He could hire a staff of comedy writers to come up with artful burns and first-class material, but then they’d probably expect salaries and benefits, so fuck that. Much better to look like shameless idiot and bask in the reflexive adoration of the internet’s neckbeards.

This piece is grossly ignorant of the larger gun lobby landscape. It also seems to be ignorant of the legislative process.

The first Top Gun came out in the era when Hollywood was fueled by cocaine, so even that 15 year-old screenwriter was out of his mind on drugs and hadn’t slept in seven days when he handed in the final revisions. 

They should set Morbius 2 in the multiverse so we can get multiple versions of Morbius, allowing Leto to play one version with his ludicrous Italian accent from House of Gucci and, via meme incursion, cause the immediate destruction of all reality and eradicate the possibility of any further Morbius movies.

I think we’re losing the thread here. The entire reason I joined this conversation was to defend the notion that Davies was at least implicitly criticizing Herron and Waldron in his remarks. Disney is hard-core square when it comes to representation. On that we agree. Rightly or wrongly, they think they have billions…

Sure, Peacemaker is on HBO Max. You’ll notice I said those things aren’t going to happen on Disney+ in 2022. It’s a different ballgame on HBO, especially since pretty much the logline for the entire DCEU is “a more adult version of superhero stories.”

Season 6 Kate is the WORST. At the funeral Toby tells her something very kind and sweet, and her response is to offer no response at all. No “thanks, Toby”; no “that’s a very nice thing to say”; certainly no “I love you, too.” Just a crack about how she recognized his pop culture reference and then return to staring…

You may be right, but “ridiculous, craven, and feeble” seems to be aimed directly at the creative choices that were made. It’s at least inclusive of those choices, and so Herron and Mark Waldron would be painted by that brush.

“I’m not a racist and a homophobe, I’m just as asshole” is a defense, but not a very good one.

Oh no, a really dumb idea for a show has been scuttled by the theft of a really dumb digital object from a really dumb person. Whatever will we do?

It’s a click-bait headline designed to drive traffic through fake controversy. The writer is an easy target, but probably this sort of thing is being driven by the bosses. And enjoy this current state while it lasts, because sooner or later we’ll be treated to The Takeout articles like: “A Customer Looked Inside His…

Yeah, and the Old Testament-era prohibition on “boiling a calf in its mother’s milk” was almost certainly aimed at prohibiting a specific rite that honored some deity who was competing with Yahweh for followers, but now it means practicing Jews can’t have a cheeseburger. When enough time has passed that the original…

Back in 1965, composer Lalo Schifrin was probably thinking, “This is a pretty good score, not bad for a TV show.” Now, nearly 60 years later, you could argue that the opening bars are as iconic as anything John Williams came up with. Of course, I would recognize a number of different John Williams compositions, and…

The final 20 minutes of Fallout are a master class in sustained tension. The MI movies have me thinking that Christopher McQuarrie is one of the most interesting directors working in Hollywood today.

Lately I’ve been freezing milk in an ice cube tray so that I’ll have something on-hand when I want to make a cappuccino. That’s maybe twice a week, tops, so there’s almost no way to keep a carton of milk fresh long enough to use all of it before it starts turning sour. The good news is that frozen milk steams up great…

In the version with dogs, every incoming email would be met with an endless barrage of responses, all saying, “Hi!” It would continue like that until either the server crashed or someone unplugged the dog’s keyboard.

Yes, and he’s not just a Communist, he’s an Irish communist. “You English aristocrats treated my people like animals and slaughtered them by the thousands with a famine that you created by exporting all of our crops to England while we died of starvation, and if we ever thought to speak up for self-determination you…

Spotify is to podcasting what Microsoft once was to internet technologies. “We really like what you’re doing here, so we’re going to buy the company and then revise your product code so that it only works on Windows computers. Yes, we understand that you were developing a product that everybody could use, but we’re…

I’m sorry to see the show go. I enjoyed it in the days before P.J.’s departure, and though I thought the resignation and abandonment of the series mid-run were a serious over-correction, I continued to listen to and enjoy the episodes since then. I have mounting concerns for Gimlet and its programs following the…