I once bought a ticket to see “Salaam Bombay” because the movie poster showed a smiling Indian boy and the phrase “The Feel-Good Hit of the Summer” was printed over the top. It was, without a doubt, the most depressing movie I’ve ever seen. They may as well have taken “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and marketed it as a…

The first sign that you might have an Ana de Armas allergy is swelling ... in certain parts of your body.

That was literally a recurring joke on “The Simpsons.” (Commercial: “We guarantee it!” Voice at end of commercial: “Not an actual guarantee.”) So, it would be both funny and a little infuriating if that becomes an actual commercial practice.

It was not a good movie, but neither was it a “so bad it makes me angry” movie, and also not a “so bad it’s funny” movie. It was fluff - some good moments, but otherwise so forgettable that I’m already having trouble remembering the plot. Really, the only thing that truly stood out in the movie was the Henry Cavill…

Residuals is one reason - every time an episode of the show streams, you owe money to someone somewhere. If you think that the old content is doing nothing to bring in new subscribers or convince current subscribers to stick around, that’s all just money out the door.

What really, deeply sucks about shows that get turned into tax write-offs is, once you’ve filed that paperwork, it would be tax fraud to make even one more dime off of that show. So those shows are gone forever - it is legally required that they never show up on another streamer, and they can never be re-released at…

Donald Glover is an amazing talent, so why would you saddle him with an obscure character and a screenwriter so raw that he doesn’t even have an IMDB page? Maybe Myles Murphy isn’t just leveraging his father’s name and has a brilliant idea for an amazing script, but this seems like a huge longshot.

I really don’t understand why modern professional kitchens don’t use SV routinely. I once got a steak at Denny’s (in my defense, it was on a work trip and it was the only restaurant in the area), and it was pathetically overcooked. I wasn’t expecting high food quality at Denny’s, of course, but I couldn’t help but…

Re: poaching eggs in the shell - how easy is it to separate the egg from the shell when it’s ready to serve? I boil eggs by dropping them in boiling water, which isn’t the sous vide scenario, so I’m wondering if the egg white has become fully bonded with the shell in the hot water bath.

I have reusable bags that are my go-to. Occasionally I might vacuum-seal a one-use bag, but that’s the exception, not the rule. 

I was once mocked by a professional chef for asking her a question about sous vide - I guess she thought I was being pretentious - but I love it because it removes so many of the things that can go wrong. Just set the right temperature, give it enough time, and then brown it when you’re ready to serve. I haven’t had…

“I like my heroes to be white, male, and dressed in skin-tight costumes. Not that there’s anything homoerotic about that - I’m all man, baby - but when I see a woman on screen it makes me retch!!!”

It was definitely long - the film could have been trimmed by 30 minutes without affecting the central plotline, and, as much as I enjoyed Colin Farrell’s performance, it feels like the Penguin was in the movie solely to set up the spin-off. If you cut that entire character and handed all his lines to other characters,…

A few nights ago I was walking the dog after dark when two dudes get into a car up the block, turn the key, and floor it RIGHT AT ME. The dog and I jumped out of the way and I shouted something incoherent, but the driver doesn’t slow down, he just swerves slightly and keeps going. As he went by, I caught a glimpse…

On a show that made me strongly wish Netflix that had a “skip painfully unfunny comedy bits” button, Matt Lucas was responsible for more than his share of painfully unfunny comedy bits. I will not be sorry he’s gone in the next season. I am worried, though - if the show’s producers thought he was a good choice in the…

I read something the other day that argued new Twitter’s content moderation policy (i.e. Musk makes a personal decision and then tweets it out) is so reckless and juvenile as to make Facebook look, by comparison, like a relatively well-run platform, which is really saying something. It’s like two dumpster fires…

Judging by Chappelle’s own behavior recently, he does not appear to be surrounded by truth-speakers who will challenge his assumptions. No doubt he thought “rich guy quasi-celebrity champion of the right wing - my transphobic fans probably really like this guy!” And all the yes-men in the room immediately said,…

Across its entire portfolio, GO Media is just one big outrage machine. The empty shell that Deadspin has become is just one article after another about how everyone and everything connected with sports is deplorable. They do this because outrage produces a reaction - we comment on the article (like you and I just…

Because this wasn’t an affair between two tax accountants. It involved two media personalities, whose value to the network depends on their ability to inspire parasocial relationships among the viewers. They don’t need to be nice, funny, and relatable, but they do need to SEEM to be those things when the cameras are…

I once was in the middle of a disagreement with a colleague at a big company who was in charge of drafting “thought leadership” articles for an executive. Me and my boss had been pointing out that these articles simply bragged about the existing products and services of the company, and there was not really anything…