That joke will always come too soon.

Leptodermaphiles?

Very interesting comment. I’ve wondered about that a lot. There’s also the curiously perfect curve formed by the quality of Tarantino’s own screenplays: more and more uneven until the nadir of Hateful Eight (just my opinion).

However, this thing sounds terrific.

By not writing about it.

Will they hire the designer of that cover art? Some things are just too good to be true.

Have you read Fleming’s Bond books? There’s a great moment in one of them (can’t recall which) where Bond really does consider an “extended universe” of his own stories, which for him is death: what happens, he muses, if there really is a heaven, and all the girls he’s banged meet each other and decide to launch a…

“The infinity stones create what you experience as the flow of time. Remove one stone, and that flow splits. This may benefit your reality; but my new one [i.e. “mine” — not sure why they so clumsily denote “the present,” which is at any rate assumed], not so much. In this new branch-reality, without our chief weapon…

I think that’s suggested when the Ancient One explains that if you don’t return the stones, the timeline you took the stone from doesn’t have that stone anymore and you’ve doomed another universe. (lol)

Still, yet another p̶l̶o̶t̶h̶o̶l̶e̶ very interesting issue the film raises is when the stones must be returned.…

Good points. But as far as Drax is concerned, I assumed that several intelligence gathering organizations, including MI6, would have had found inklings of SHIELD back when they were investigating SPECTRE, so the defeat of Drax’s forces as his station is destroyed, and Bond ejecting Drax into space, wouldn’t conflict…

Agreed.

But as de Gaulle said, how can anyone limit a critic that has two hundred and forty-six different types of pairings? There’s Morbier where that came from. (Buyer Gruyère.)

I just Bleu through five, or at least Fourme. I Cantal, but I Maytag Emmental block: Queso stomach, brain Fog — no idea what Causses it, or what a…

Love your vlog skills, Ms Sherman! Way more talent than you seem to believe — & you’re not brumblehagging, either (my least favorite of the human acts). — Candid, not forthright; the savvy finesse (which you do have) is underplayed, never affected or pretentious.

You’ve got the l’oeil créatif: you appraise items with…

I’ve never understood why everybody hates Clones. (Especially given how terrible the others are.) I like the water planet, and the first half hour is the only overlap with noir in the whole series.

Doesn’t it suggest a dark meaning, as it alludes to Palpatine’s command to Vader of rise?

There’s no such thing as too much knowledge about Star Wars.

A New Hope is as bad a title as “Beatles” is for a band. The words disappear.

What’s wrong with any of this? I ask. Stop being so harsh, internets.

Now please excuse me: I have to finish watching Leaving Neverland. I am shocked, shocked, beyond shocked; I can’t imagine how such a thing happened in our culture.

It’s that they feel they have no control over their lives, and they’re correct.

Reminds me of Depeche Mode. What is Construction Time Again about? I think it’s just an adolescent’s idea of vaguely transgressive political radicalism.

You make an excellent point, and one that I don’t hear enough. Don’t you think all this is the inevitable outcome of a whole culture that doesn’t explore adult relationships? I’m not excusing Michael Jackson at all. But Disney, Star Wars, superhero movies, Harry Potter, Hunger Games — all of it is juvenalia. And this…