If you’re hoping that the Duke Nukem movie will be self-aware that the character is an asshole but also allow him to be an action hero while making it funny, then yes - watch Peacemaker. I didn’t expect to enjoy that show nearly as much as I did. 

This show was a real find - I feel like it slipped under the radar a bit, and my wife and I only heard about it after the first season was completed. We both enjoyed it quite a bit, and I’m looking forward to another season. I’m curious about the premise, though, because season one was all about escaping Schmigadoon…

I’d say it was the best of the JJ Abrams trilogy, but that only makes it the fastest horse in a very slow race. It has the merit of trying some new things and introducing a few ideas, rather than just warming-over the story beats from the original trilogy, but on its own merits it was mediocre at best.

Except the writer’s family didn’t do jack. They didn’t write a single word. I’m all for the original artist cashing in, big time. Put that money into a IRA and pass your inheritance on to whoever you like. But this article was written over 30 years ago. The people demanding cash today didn’t create anything. Copyright…

When the stock goes up, executives get fat bonuses. When the stock goes down, executives get fat bonuses. When the company goes under, executives are given fat balloon payments. There’s no part of modern capitalism that gives even one shit about frontline workers.

I realize that copyright law may not be on my side, but I have essentially zero patience for these suits brought by family and descendants of someone who created something, demanding cash from other people who later created something. I don’t care if the original work was a song, a magazine article, a novel, or a…

John Irving claimed that he put a bunch of quasi-pornographic content in Garp in a desperate attempt to boost sales. Apparently he was pleased with the outcome, because Hotel New Hampshire reads like a novelization of the Pornhub categories page.

33% of men want you to believe that they’ve engaged in sex while driving. The actual number is probably a lot lower than that. 

The best material* is in the Six of Crows storyline, so hopefully they’ll keep the show running long enough to get to the good stuff.

I wonder how firm that support is. I think what most people really support is what they’re used to - this has been the law of the land for decades, and nothing seems to be on fire, so why overturn it? In that majority you have a coalition of those who truly support abortion rights and those who are just uncomfortable…

Don’t forget about her detective thrillers published under a pseudonym. Pretty bad stuff, although that didn’t stop some streaming service (I don’t remember which) from turning it into must-not-see TV. (And I understand the latest in that series features a murderous trans villain, because of course it does.)

My wife and I had the fantasy talk about 20 years ago. She initiated it; I felt uncomfortable but shared; she later admitted to being uncomfortable with what I shared. We haven’t talked about it since.

They were trying desperately to pump new air into the Harry Potter franchise. Now the question is whether they’ll let it die or try again with a new corner of J.K. Rowling’s imagination. Probably the latter. No one gets promoted to Hollywood studio boss by saying, “We should NOT make that IP-infused CGI tentpole movie!…

With the way Hollywood is structured these days, I suppose we should all brace ourselves for the Top Gun Cinematic Universe.

I think a better question than “how much does it cost” is “how will it make you feel?” My whole childhood, my mother planned vacations in which we pinched every last penny and my sisters and I hated a lot of it. On the flip side, I’ve definitely stayed at places where I looked around and wondered what, exactly, I was…

I do think they’ll want a Flash character going forward, regardless of how this movie performs, but I’m betting on them multiversing Ezra Miller out of the role.

I heard a podcast last year in which a guy who’d been raising chickens for their eggs ran an estimate at the end of the year, and it turned out his price per egg was roughly $20. I’m sure fresh eggs are better than store-bought, but at that price point they’d have to be life-changing.

Sure, but if ticket sales are strong, that will convince WB that they were right to keep him in the movie and that they should cast him in future films as the Flash, and that would definitely put more money in his pocket. Will each individual ticket make a difference in that regard? Certainly not, but it’s the same…

Mr. Neckbeard, I presume?

I don’t know, they did pretty well out of the gate. Ted Lasso, For All Mankind, Dickinson - these were all worth watching pretty much from the get-go. Their record has been spottier on the movies side of the ledger, but the television shows have generally been interesting, original, and high-quality. Whoever’s making…