If you want to go to the land where amnesia is still a plot point try Korean TV. They get a lot of mileage out of memory loss.

Actors, past a certain age, either transition into roles like judges and presidents and corporate leaders, or they simply fade away. Tia Leoni, when she hit 50, got to play Secretary of State on TV. Cameron Diaz quit acting at 45. Goldie Hawn is now 72.

I recall an old description of Newt Gingrich. ‘Gingrich is what dumb people think an intellectual sounds like’. Musk has the same problem. Musk’s act is what dumb people think geniuses sound like. I get the impression 20 years ago a young Musk would have been up for doing late night hard-sell infomercials about how…

When, in the first season of the series ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’, they did a parody song named “Sexy French Depression”, mocking French cinema’s fetishization of depressed women, they were pretty much talking about Juliette Binoche films. Another tune they borrowed the image of a blue glass chandelier straight out of…

Kayne West is a manic depressive egomaniac whose career is currently on a self-inflicted downward spiral. Also, the Kardashian gravy train is coming to an end too. What is the last refuge of the resentful egoist man-child with psychiatric problems? The far right of course.

There’s an old saying from Johnny Carson that goes something like “If they buy the premise they’ll buy the bit.” That’s my chief complaint about these never-ending CGI-heavy superhero movie franchises. I’m just not buying the premise behind them anymore. Which means the individual movies come off as tedious and…

I’m superhero movie’d out. Its all turned into so much moving wallpaper and over-loud score for me. People have been mocking the repeated tropes in these films for awhile now.

Yeh, all sorts of pasty white guys with a limited grasp of the language were members of the Japanese crime family back in 1954. Sure. This is part of a long Japanese tradition, apparently, going back to Tom Cruise as an American civil war veteran turned Samurai super-warrior, and going back even farther to 1600 Japan…

I like the odd juxtaposition of the word ‘watchable’ with the word ‘garbage’. I guess that’s in contrast to unwatchable ‘high art’, like that 1993 film ‘The Piano’ (shudder). 

I’ve wary of cured meats, which apparently are pretty much a tumor waiting to happen. Try substituting bacon with pork bellies which is the same product uncured.

I’m old enough to recall the ‘70s, when there seemed to be a new (post-hippie) cult on every street corner. Every day walking between my dorm and school I’d be accosted by a glassy-eyed ‘true believer’ asking if I wanted to take a ‘personality test’.

Walking Dead was a pre- ‘peak TV’ hit. Now there’s stiff competition for eyballs and not enough time in the day to watch everything we might want. Even if you still like the show the question is do you like it enough to continue devoting time to it? If its a choice between watching ‘Walking Dead’ or cruising on over…

‘Space exploration’ in film used to be a metaphor for explorations or social anxieties more personal. But the US public seems to be losing its ability to process allegories and metaphors. The only ‘meta’ material we seem to understand these days is self-referential pop culture references. ‘Space exploration’ by itself…

‘Nastier’? I think you meant to say ‘more enjoyable’.

This is the second time inside a half hour that I’ve read the word ‘squicky’. Odd.

It seems to be something of a Hollywood tradition that when former coke-heads grow old they become crotchety old conservatives.

I recall scientists some years back discovered a clam somewhere in the north sea that they estimated was 500 years old. You’ll note I said ‘was’, because they had to kill it in order figure out its age.

I’ve been on the iZombie bandwagon since the premiere but, I’ve got to say, I didn’t sign up for another ‘dytopian society ruled by a military government’ show. If I had wanted that I would have watched ‘Terra Nova’.

I recall when self-righteous activists attacked the genre of ‘World Music’ some years ago, claiming it was ‘ghettoizing’ foreign musical performers. So the genre disappeared from radio stations... and foreign musical performers completely disappeared for American audiences. Was that the intention of the activists?

For some reason when I read the question my very first though was of the start of the movie ‘Catch-22'. If that’s what popped into my head I guess I’m going with it.