Writing off three major characters, adding another, killing another, shaking everyone else up, adding a flash-forward framing device - and all done without an appearance from the ostensible lead. That's insane and exhausting. It almost feels like a different show - one that is really good, but is going to take some…

There is an argument against Elba playing Bond, and it's got nothing to do with color, or swagger, or anything non-quantifiable. He's too old. Craig has one more film under contract, meaning the first Elba Bond would be around 2021. Elba would be 48 for his first Bond, or just a couple of years younger than Craig will…

Remember when the Flaming Lips mattered?

Caught a double feature of Spaghetti Westerns at the New Bev theater in LA. First was FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE, the most forgotten of the Dollars trilogy. It is, of course, awesome - though I was a little disturbed by the needless murder of an 18 month old baby by villain El Indio (you don't actually see it). I guess it…

Didn't New Order do this a bunch of times?

Wellick is like a pick-up artist crossed with a mid-level Nazi administrator. Jesus.

Seems like a glug of wine while pregnant is the least awful thing the two of them have done in this show.

Confirmation bias dictates that you'll hear the Minion say what you've been told it says. It's the same reason why someone tells you that "Stairway to Heaven" played backwards says "hail to thee sweet Satan" you actually hear it, even though it doesn't say that.

I still prefer "Pimento" over "Five-O." The latter felt like a lost Breaking Bad episode, which is still great, but really doesn't work without relying on knowledge of things that we know about, but haven't happened for the characters yet. "Pimento," however, has maybe the most devastating put-down I've ever seen on…

My issue with Modern Family has never been the quality of individual episodes, which are almost always somewhere between solid workmanship and really great. It's that overall, nothing bad ever, ever happens to any of these people other than MAYBE Phil's mom dying. Job losses are always either forgotten about or taken…

And there's the pedantic tone policing, right on cue.

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That's what I would assume, as well. But I've found that one can never be too careful when having an opinion on trans issues.

I think this does bring up some interesting questions. Who won the gold medal in 1976? Was it Bruce or Caitlyn? Bruce doesn't exist now, but did he exist then? And if not, does that mean a woman won a men's category in the Olympics?

Having been subjected to this show, I don't see how you bring it back and just memory hole Josh and Anna. They name off all the kids at the beginning of each episode…do they just bleep their names out? I guess the bigger thing is that if TLC does bring it back, they're basically admitting they have no problem with…

Fantastic ending, and totally in keeping with Mad Men's ethos: stories don't end, they just turn into different stories.

Other than the last five minutes, which totally undercut the rest of the film, EOT was great.

I'd like to think Van Morrison has one more great album in him. But he just put out a duets album, so maybe not.

Watched GIMME SHELTER for the first time last night - it's brilliant. It takes real skill to frame an event that you know is coming (the stabbing death at Altamont) with such suffocating dread that it still surprises you the event takes place. My heart started racing when the Stones got to "Under My Thumb" (the song…

Sad that Blomkamp seems content to remake DISTRICT 9 over and over, without actually making the sequel that DISTRICT 9 so brilliantly sets up.