Fleabag won almost all the things. That’s all that matters.

Crying for my queen Catherine O’Hara but happy for Phoebe nevertheless. This sounds like Schitt’s Creek winning Best Comedy Series is a long shot :( 

Am I the only one who laughed at Alex Borstein’s “Ibid, I guess?” opening comment?

And yet how many other parents STILL want their kids to follow the Disney route? That shit is child abuse.

When her mental issues became public, it should have been clear to everyone she’s been though enough and made her family enough money, and the court should have appointed a conservator from outside the family to handle her finances, and then let her retire to live the rest of her life in peace and out of the…

I feel bad for Britney. I know she suffers from mental health issues, but the publicity about all aspects of her life, it’s sad. I clicked on this article, I know. She’s what, 37? She’s aged a lot for only 37. I’m 9 years older than her and I look at that picture and think, “this is a woman who may not end well.” I…

I’m going to use this as an opportunity to plug the Richard Matheson short story collection Penguin Classics released earlier this month. I’ve been a fan since 5th Grade when a teacher read “Born of Man and Woman” to us for Halloween.

I have never been as disappointed with a film than I was after seeing I Am Legend in a theater, so psyched that by retaining the title they HAD TO use that ending.

Yeah, “Born of Man and Woman” is flat-out perfect. It’s about, what, three pages? Still haunts me - Matheson’s skill at empathy, especially in the horror genre, is unequaled as far as I’m concerned.

I became a Matheson fan when I realized that the same guy who wrote The Legend of Hell House also wrote Duel—along with The Incredible Shrinking Man! (Which is a cracking good novel, BTW.)

The writer, Richard Matheson, is criminally underrated as a horror genius.

I was 5-6 or so, and I remember sitting down watching this with my parents. “Amelia” scared the ever-loving shit out of me. I can still recall that last scene, with her sitting in the kitchen, and stabbing the floor with a big knife. Simply terrifying.

I remember watching the Trilogy of Terror when it first aired and that Amelia segment scarred me for life. It was awesome. Most of the segment seems dated now except for the final close up of (the hugely underrated) Karen Black.

I also was going to point out how that scene and Fleischer's performance works on a Usual Suspects-type rewatch level—when you see it a second time he really does come across as simultaneously ominous and benign.

Where's the pathos in your waddling?! Do it again!! Again!!

"Well here's your problem, someone set this thing to EVIL!"

When A Stranger Calls is the go-to example for that, for me. Great short-film urban-legend opening; the rest of the movie is totally unnecessary.

I was watching it thinking, "Shit, Fincher is good. He's got me terrified of Roger Rabbit's voice actor."

The Ghost Ship and Darkness Falls opening scenes are my to-go examples of "if you only have a cool scene in mind and zero plot to back it up, just film it as a short and let it be", so fucking great and so unsupported by the rest of the movie.
See also: what Lights Out should have been, just a creepy short, no…