There's nothing here about self-restraint. In fact, quite the opposite — he's saying he doesn't hire women because he can't restrain himself. Big difference.

Next time, try ______ !

Hidden Figures: I admit both sides of myself fought over this depiction of unheralded African-American women working for early 1960s NASA, the film critic in me reacting to its schematic predictability but eventually being won over by the charms of its premise and actors. Braininess and things like complex math are…

Reading recommendation: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, by Edward Baptist. Eye-opening and pretty much the only book on American slavery you may ever need to read.

It is, but not effectively. I don't really go along with the logic of, Nazism was a "nightmare" so it's acceptable to depict, but slavery was merely an "exaggerated deviation" of current reality so it somehow hits too close to home. Are there not also "modern, more compartmentalized forms" of Nazism?

I feel your pain — I had to make a similar sprint through Charlotte some years ago, with the exact same results. I thought I was going to die after all that running. It made me swear off layovers whenever possible at all, as, with me being in the Southeast, they nearly all involve either Charlotte or Atlanta, two of…

I'd say it was a bit better than one of those, thanks mainly to Soderbergh and to the lead performances. (Although Cheadle is electrifying in The Rat Pack.)

Wow, I missed last week and also at the same time started a mini-binge of 2010s movies I knew I need to catch up on. I'll have to save a few for another post.

Because he played an ape slave-trader. That's how.

Animator Jamie Hewlett didn’t like seeing his cartoons minimized onstage…

Yes. Robinson was cast as Dr. Zaius, but couldn't deal with the lengthy makeup process. The test makeup was not great (a bit too human) but proved that the concept was workable.

Let's not forget that four of the original five movies were rated G, including the second and third ones with their incredibly dark and violent endings. (Only Conquest was rated PG.)

Oh sure — it was the whole culture he was raised into. That's one reason Apes got made, it flew under the radar to some degree, in that the producers thought they were just creating some light, frothy entertainment a la Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (which also came out that year).

But even critics and newspaper columnists in 1968 knew what was up with this film

If you're a fan of this series, do yourself a favor and seek out the 1998 documentary Behind the Planet of the Apes (originally broadcast on AMC and subsequently available as a DVD extra). It charts the same course as Noel's excellent run-through here, but with lots more detail and with Roddy McDowall…

There is a section on Oliver Stone's Apes project in Jane Hamsher's excellent Killer Instinct (which is as much a takedown of her doofus partner Don Murphy as it is of Stone).

With its quirky line-up, Agents of Atlas would be an excellent choice for a future MCU team concept. After all, if they could make Guardians of the Galaxy work, why not?

(Bill Murray lounge singer voice) "X Fiiiiiles…! Nothin' but X-Fiiiles! Gimme the X-Fiiiiiiles…. Don't let them in….."

Hornacek, stop trying to keep Zendaya from happening.

He's a good idea on paper, but if this thing doesn't make a big splash and everyone leaves their cocoon, especially during night shift, there's gonna be a huge backdraft!