I did click your link, it brought me to a search page, and since you refused to specify any result there, it led to the exact problem I said would occur: you objected to the link there I did select. If YOU don’t specify your objection, I can’t know what it is, but it’s clear you don’t have a specific objection or you…

The schtick is to talk of many things: of shoes, and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. Pulling tangential items out of a conversational mental backpack is suboptimal in some respects, but one of the benefits of internet commenting compared to IRL conversation is that you can just scroll past the comments…

I haven’t heard good things about The Terror: Infamy.

I was just looking up the name of Apple’s series minutes ago. It’s “For All Mankind”.

They figured out that that’s the magic potion for public schools: money, just give them money.

I also find it overrated, particularly when people try to say it’s one of the best horror films of the 21st century because of just the Winkies scene, ignoring the rest of the film. I’ll stump for Blue Velvet though: it’s not a simplistic “Maybe the suburbs are BAD” movie, it’s about young people discovering things…

I’d be interested in seeing some data on box office grosses vs number of female roles or amount of dialog over time. I wouldn’t expect the relationship to be monotonic, “women’s pictures” used to be a big deal in the studio era.

I thought of Interstellar as a Nolan movie (not even his first scifi) with a motivated timeline gimmick. Dunkirk, on the other hand, was a rather un-Nolan true story (and a war movie) in which his gimmick was of the unmotivated sort some more highbrow critics might prefer.

I’m not citing Sullivan trumpeting a study, I’m citing his account of his own personal experience injecting testosterone. As for Dawkins, you’ll have to be specific. What other people are talking about now elsewhere is irrelevant to me here, though you may quote or not quote whomever you like for any reason you may…

As a Chicagoan who’s never played a gig, I couldn’t say what’s contractually required. Since you responded years after my original comment, I briefly thought that I might have gone there once specifically in response to a recommendation here, but then I looked up Rainbo and saw that it was in Ukrainean Village,…

I didn’t see any documentation of what you allege, and if you had any specific documentation you would have linked it rather than twisting in the wind for such an extended period of time. All I see is more of the same accusations from you without anything to back them up.

I wonder what the reason for that difference in imagination might be. And it occurs to me that audio-recordings seem like an unexplained medium for that. It could both permit imagination regarding visuals without requiring the consumer to turn pages or scroll down. Podcasts are huge deal nowadays, so people are…

Skimming my recent comments here gives a limited view of what I’m “intensely” interested in. I was about to write that I don’t think I’ve read any books specifically dedicated to the topic, but then I remembered I reviewed “Demonic Males” in 2008 and that sort of qualifies. You can read more at my blog to see what…

My understanding is that sexual cannibalism is relatively common in some species, not aberrant behavior. Males of those species sometimes have adaptations seemingly tailored in response to it. You’re right that it’s different from what we see in mammals, which is part of what makes it interesting. Naked mole rats are…

I thoroughly enjoyed Thoroughbreds, so Ilyana being a terrible person makes me more interested in this (alleged) dud of a film.

Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. Fun fact: the ethnicities recognized by the U.S government are Hispanic & not hispanic. But those can be combined with any other race. Within Latin America they have their own racial categories, which include white, but Americans used to a binary black & white are less familiar…

I had heard of “Heaven Knows What” but since I was wary of something that could be really unpleasant, a screening of this was my first exposure to the Safdies and it was great. I think it was also the first time I saw Pattinson, I can’t be sure of when I rented The Lost City of Z (which I still say is overrated). It…

Who makes smart movies for smart people? Feel free to supply some of the other combinations as well.

Insomnia was a remake rather than a Nolan story, and it’s not as good as his other films. I think he likes to add some trickiness, which requires some exposition for the audience to understand, and he banks on being entertaining enough that they’ll put up with said exposition.

Hey, that was supposed to be a comedy when Fitzgerald wrote it!