I have always believed Paul Ryan was a psychopath. No compassion for others, no sense of right or wrong. I once had a doctor in an emergency room descend on my hand with an exacto-knife looking instrument, and I said, “hold on hold on!” and he just went for it, ignoring me, in a cold, disconnected way. (It was the ER,…

That is extremely disturbing to hear.

I saw American Beauty in the theater and hated it then. No one agreed with me. I feel a special kind of relief now that people are coming around to my original feelings of disgust about that movie. When it came out, it was “edgy” and you know how people like to be edgy. To love it, was to be ahead of the curve. I…

If this is as good as Spy with Melissa McCarthy, I’m 100% in.

We had trouble picking one so we had 3, and rolled the dice on what order they were played in. My musical taste is all over the place, as is this list.

This thread is an interesting take. Since everyone was so against Oprah running for office, and yet she could also be described as intelligent and invested, who would “at least bring in a team of policy experts that she will want to listen to. I trust that she can digest large amounts of information about policy and…

To be fair, before reading the intro paragraph to that piece of the poll, I read “wellness” to mean “everybody is healthy and well and healthcare is provided for all” versus “capitalism: where even your illness must make SOMEONE money.” So in that poll, I vote wellness. In the poll where wellness means you think…

Came here for this. Bad Teacher is a favorite of mine, and I watch it whenever it’s on. It’s one of those movies that I can rewatch (hell, I might even rewatch it tonight.)

The important, fantastic book “The Gift of Fear” by Gavin DeBecker dives deeply into this spidey sense of something being off, and why you should heed that. Tons of accounts of people being in dangerous situations that look benign to the naked eye but the other senses (gut, goosebumps, etc.) were all waving red flags.…

A lot of people have disabilities who look “fine” on the outside, but the judgy a-holes in the world gots to be judgin’ and a-holin’. Case in point, I had a guy once scream at me for parking in a handicap spot (with my legal, handicap parking tag) because I looked okay to him. At that point in time, I was recovering…

I’m okay with asking for the millionaire and billionaire companies to make less money to pay their employees more. Yes, even in the entertainment industry. Hoarding wealth at the top of a company (whether it be software or movies) and then pitting employees against each other as if higher pay is ruining everyone…

After seeing most of the movies, I’m so happy Get Out won best screenplay. The Shape of Water as best picture was a big “eh” for me. Not really on board with it. We watched Ladybird this week and I don’t get all the hype, so I was happy Get Out won over Ladybird. I mean, don’t get me wrong, LB is well acted, but it…

Three Billboards is infinitely better than The Shape of Water. Held my interest the entire way through and it was not predictable. Plus, the best thing is that the trailer doesn’t give away the whole plot. That’s rare these days. Sam is amazing in the movie too. So good.

Please and yes and asap. They were a delightful duo and Maya is such a great energy match with Tiffany.

My mother is deceased, and my dad is very old. One of the emergency calls I received was the sudden death of my mom. I use an app called llama. It allows you to put your ringer etc. on silent, and then if you get a pre-determined number of calls in a row from the same number, the ring will go through. You can set up…

There’s an app you can get that allows your phone to ring on silent if the person calls back a certain number of times in a row (you can set the number.) So for example my husband’s phone is on silent overnight but if it was an emergency all anyone would have to do is call more than once in a row and it would go…

WHO LEAVES THEIR NOTIFICATION SOUNDS ON WHEN THEY GO TO BED??

Yesssss! The grooming was celebrated in CMBYN and a cautionary tale in An Education. But both were grooming. In one, it’s called out, and in the other, it’s ignored and seen as romantic.

I loved “An Education”. But the difference between An Education and CMBYN is that in CMBYN, the romance is depicted (from the audience’s standpoint) as freeing and enlightening while it happens despite (spoilers) everything ending in heartbreak. But in An Education, from the audience’s viewpoint, the romance is…

Thank you for putting this out there because I just saw it last night and I’m in total agreement. I hate falling for all the Oscar noms when really, they’re not always that great. Other than the fact that the cinematography was great, I just thought it was a bit slow and “eh”. Wish I would have seen your reviews…