If you like pirates in video games, go play Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag — you’ll go bazonkers.

While Oz apparently jumped the gun here and didn’t know the whole story, it now strikes me why someone named F. Oz might feel somewhat personal about a bear named FOZzie. (And to think it took me forty years and this story to make that connection...)

Not only is Ronan a good brother, his New Yorker piece on Weinstein was both devastating and well-written (if not to say epochal). Looking forward to reading the Moonves takedown and whatever may lie beyond.

Let’s see... Alice In Wonderland movies... Black Mass... Dark Shadows... Mordecai, the last three Pirates movies... your theory checks out!

Oh, no doubt, I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. Just that it would have been wonderful to see Holm as Moore’s Gull. I’m not sure I’d say the equivalent about Depp or Graham.

I’m with you. I actually love Eddie Campbell’s art in From Hell. It is formally loose and rough-looking, especially when looking at a single panel or page in isolation, but it’s wonderful at telling the story, which is what it’s supposed to do.

Holm would have been even more awesome, had they adapted the comic more faithfully.

Good question, but have there even been any really good action films this year yet? Besides the superhero ones? The Commuter is the only one I could find on AV Club’s mid-year “best movie” list. The new Mission: Impossible is coming out now, but that also seems like a rather low bar. Anything else promising coming out…

Good points, but let’s not forget that it took over a quarter-century for Star Trek to shake the orthodoxy of Roddenberry, due in no small part to the efforts of factotum/”archivist” Richard Arnold who saw it as his personal mission to enforce it, and to rein in what he saw as continuity excesses in other media like…

Another fun takeaway from the profile is that apparently Goop has two O’s because Paltrow was told that successful website names often have double-O’s. (I myself was hard-pressed to come up with examples beyond Google and Yahoo.)

Although a close second place in cynicism would have to be the “we’re not making statements — we’re just asking questions” bit quoted in this article. That is some 21st century trutherist stuff, right there. Someone may want to clue them in that “just asking questions” is known elsewhere on the Internet as “JAQing…

Taffy’s New York Times profile of “GP” is long, but hilarious and fascinating even if you would normally have no interest in GP’s goings-on.

Sorry, this is terrible, but I absolutely cracked up at “dont act like your smarter then me”.

I like how you say you get why she was fired, because she implied something to one person.

The 10-year-old protagonist of the 1991 indie road film Motorama apparently lives in an alternate U.S. with state names like Mercer, South Lydon, Tristana, Bergen and Essex.

The closest we’ll get for a while is 2005's made-for-TV Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy, which I thought was better than it could have been. Best thing about it was Chris Diamantopoulos (Silicon Valley’s Russ Hanneman), of all people, as Williams, and he pretty much hit it out of the park.

Say what you want about Star Trek: Discovery, but at least CBS All Access posts it during prime time on Sunday so that it can be watched immediately in the evening.

I have to admit, reading your comment was the first time I’ve ever felt both The Grapes of Wrath and The Big Lebowski in my head at the same time.

I will never be able to associate the terms “babysitting” and “Green Arrow” without thinking of poor Lian (and that terrible follow-up story where relapsing, demented Roy runs around with the dead cat).

Nah, nah, none of this anthology stuff. The way this would need to work is taking place in the same universe as The Young Pope, but with Jude Law removed from power (no doubt due to his many blasphemies and heresies from last season), and resigned to scheme around the sidelines.