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Trains run on schedules, but train tracks are not used on a schedule. Especially freight tracks.

The bed was there for a surreal dream sequence in the film.

Ugh, the emails stayed in the same inbox for an entire season.

Ehhhh… 11/22/63 is the best thing he's written in decades, but the ending seemed really underwhelming. YMMV, of course.

Does he still write like he once met a black dude for ten minutes back in 1972?

Marrying your ex girlfriend's adopted daughter is just as creepy and inexcusable as marrying your ex wife's adopted daughter.

"Different" is not a word I would've imagined people using to describe Anna Kendrick.

A young man with an unusual legal problem

NASA's space shuttle was a failure. It was a mistake for Russia to try and copy it.

…the three members of the group…

It's a CYA move. And an understandable one at that.

I'll allow it.

A Pizza Lotto sign probably hangs on half the bodegas in Los Angeles.

The shaky cam in Man on Fire short-circuited the drama and visceral impact of scenes that would've otherwise been pretty spectacular.

This is 2017 - we're not allowed to have good things.

Eno tried to erase the master of "Where the Streets Have No Name", for one.

According to U2: At the End of the World, he really was feeling the lingering effects on the night they filmed.

I'd love to hear what Lance thinks about the last season of Millennium when they tried to make it a happy, cheerful procedural.