You had me at "vast network of pneumatic tubes".

I think Feig still does this (although I haven't seen Ghostbusters so maybe he's proven me wrong). Spy is straight up funny without emotions or surrealism. The Heat has comedy emotions, but it's also just a very standard, sort of old-fashioned comedy.

Would you say you have to have any idea of Diplo is in order to enjoy it? I'm here for the Beek, but I couldn't tell you one thing about Diplo other than 'dj'.

The first episode was far more enthralling than I was expecting, and Jessica Biel got way better as her character got closer and closer to the breaking point. The early scene where she is just chatting with her husband felt super actor-y, but perhaps that was the point.

I have read the books (most of them multiple times) and I was excited about the Horn of Eld hook. The trailer didn't blow me away, but I thought it looked decent. The thing that worried me the most was how much time it seemed to spend in NYC. I like a fish out of water story as much as anyone, but I want to see Roland…

Whenever I hear "Donald Trump" and "negotiation" in the same sentence I can only imagine Jack Donaghy making him do the worm.

Mr. Olive and I chose Baby Driver as our first out-without-the-kid movie, so I feel obligated to make this our next date night. It sounds amazing. (And, hey, I get the point, but I'm not sure it's possible to overreact to your kid's abduction.)

Trust me, *I* never forget about Josh Charles.

Ugh, there was an ad for a movie at my gym the other day where Lake Bell has to play Jamie Lannister's long-suffering wife who doesn't understand why prison is changing him so much. I weep for whatever dummies aren't writing her starring roles in good stuff.

Apparently she had guest stints on Shameless and Grey's Anatomy, which isn't bad. She's definitely so beautiful in the original movie that I was surprised she kind of disappeared afterwards. Call it the Mia Sara Conundrum.

What with Meloni, Pine, and Hamm, WHAS is clearly trying to be the nexus of such roles.

Adam Scott has paid a lot of comic dividends over the years, but when i think of him I still think of his introduction in Knocked Up. They way he is framed from behind and then sort of whipturns toward the camera really make it feel like this character is going to be played by some really famous actor doing a cameo,…

Wrecked did this too, swapping out actors for a minor guest role. They even filmed fake previouslies!

Or Josh Charles's popped collars. Or Bruce Greenwood getting on top of the conference table. Or Electro-City!

I'm sick of the scenes where two or three people sit around discussing the lives of other people we've never heard of. It plays out like a scene study in a drama class, not an essential and interesting part of a good tv episode.

It was *not* great to see Audrey living what seems like a trash life. It actually has me a teensy bit depressed and I wish they'd just left her out of it; I didn't need to know that this is where she ends up.

I imagine it has a lot to do with infrastructure, and perhaps with comfort zones. You can get access to a huge number of actors, extras, tech people, etc. in NY (and LA, of course). It's a little harder to set it all up somewhere else (but obviously entirely doable). I'd be surprised if it's actually cheaper, given…

I'm somewhat surprised that directors/screenwriters aren't pushing to place their indie rom-coms anywhere but New York, just for novelty's sake. I'm immediately 15% more engaged when a movie takes place outside of LA/Chicago/New York. It's refreshing.

There are dozens of us!

Demon named Luci, makes me nostalgic for Lucy, Daughter of the Devil. She left us too soon.