“But that world gets shaken to its core after the shocking disappearance of his father....”

Honestly, it was just a pretty solid episode of basic Star Trek. Which is really refreshing. 

“Somewhat” seems like a brutal understatement there.

I'll take your word for it, but I don’t think “he only *pretends* to be a whiny, petty asshole for money and attention” is an especially persuasive defense

I still love that they had to make all the other Amazonian’s have Israeli accents because Gal Gadot can’t manage anything else.

I can only hope that these will be clips from the movies with narration by Michael Peña as Luis.

Since The Falcon and the Snowman was already taken, I’ll accept this second-best title attempt.

I’ve had to laugh - seriously laugh - at some of my fellow white people’s responses to Boyega’s speech in the past 24 hours. Look, kids, we know he’s English. We know. He’s one of the finest actors to come out of the United Kingdom in the past 30 years and I dearly hope he’ll be showcasing what he can do for many…

IP lawyer here. Let me explain what’s actually going on.

I kept expecting someone to push her down a turboshaft.

I tell you, assigned seating is the greatest thing to come to movie theaters in a long time. Followed closely by recliners. Knowing where you are sitting before you walk in the door alleviates half the stress of going to movies. Why it took movie theaters until 2016ish to make assigned seating the norm is beyond me.

Theaters are about a shared community experience. While there are those who would rather be alone, the audience response reinforces the enjoyment of the picture. Extreme case: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And there’s the aspect of getting out of an all-too-familiar environment for a few hours. Some people like that…

I wouldn’t go blaming streaming and Netflix for the failure of independent theaters and the struggles even the chains are having. Those problems have been on going for longer than streaming has been a thing. Fuck it was a major topic back when I was in college and Netflix had just launched as the DVD by mail service.

T…

The Gormenghast Trilogy lives in a rarefied place with only one other book, Finnegan’s Wake, being the two novels I couldn’t complete. I love Umberto Eco, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, all kinds of difficult texts, but I never got more than 5 or 6 pages into Titus Groan. I just couldn’t. I’d stop and reread a sentence two…

I can think of a lot of things I’d rather see Gaiman use his clout to make. Maybe a Book of the New Sun miniseries.