Yeah, people forget Shelob. She’s a girlboss!

If LOTR had mostly women characters, the Fellowship (Ladyship?) would never have made it to Mt. Doom...because they would have gotten lost!

To quote Laurence Olivier’s famous rejoinder to Dustin Hoffman’s insistence on staying awake for days to get his character right in Marathon Man: “Why don’t you just try acting?”

“It’s important to me, as an actor, to fully realize the world and the pain inherent in the character of” *checks notes* “a comic book vampire.”

[noted elderly-murder enthusiast] Umberto Eco

I have read a bunch of Eco, so I am wondering what this is based on!

How can you leave out the amazing Sondheim tribute during the obits?

The revival remembered the magic of classic Match Game: get the panelists nice and sloshed first

As a game show nut, BRING EM ON, except throw Leslie Jones's relentlessly shrill Supermarket Sweep into Mt. Doom

Nice writeup on Hustler, which I also enjoyed. It was a fun one to watch in groups so you could argue and make predictions. And I liked how he interacted with the contestants without mocking them.

Match Game was dead in the water long before any of that happened. It was a decent ratings grabber, but once ABC went full hog on game show revivals, Match Game became one of the lowest performers, even for its timeslot. Which is a bit of a shame because it was honestly one of my favorite revivals. It basically kept…

We liked The Hustler, any opportunity to see Craig Ferguson ad lib and make some jokes is fun to see. But I did not enjoy how they felt the need to spend time giving a detailed explanation of the premise every single episode as if it was the pilot.

To quote Almodóvar: The devil, in fact, doesn’t exist.

“How was your weekend?”

“Here’s the headline, boys: Leto the Right One In”

I’d give up my password to a big tittied goth girl.

Well, he has to live with her.

It’s fine. After all Will Smith loved the joke until his wife told him otherwise

He didn’t even say “Welcome to Earth” afterwards. What the hell, Will?

“Keep my wife’s name out of your mouth!”