The thing is, a company only gets sold to a PE firm if it’s already fucked up. So you’re kinda looking a sample set that’s already headed for failure.

Alamo Drafthouse was already circling the drain when they were bought, IIRC.  

Holy fuck, Naomi Watts looks amazing! Is she a vampire, or some kind of immortal? What’s her secret? Goat placenta, monkey sweat? Is it holy water?

Lynch, holding nose and spraying Febreze: Totally respect *tssssh* your privacy for this scene *tssssh* Naomi I’m just - oh god my eyes - *tsssh* gonna be in this tent *tsssh* with twenty scented candles in it *tsssh* action!

I’m with Lopez on this one. I’ve been to a few casino shows, and they really do have all the power to control the room and the audience - up to and including just turning on the lights when they think the show is done and the audience should be back out on the floor throwing their money away. If the venue allowed the…

Anyone else amazed how he’s visually transitioned into Beethoven over the years?

...Good gravy, I’ve become my father.

The casino’s assistant general manager acknowledged that the recording did show “guests yelling out,” but that the heckling was positive.

Good for him. Every audience member who shouts out unprompted at a comedy gig is, at best, a child with no impulse control, and they need to remember they’re not just interrupting the performer, but everyone around them who paid to see the gig.

The house that coke built, eh?

Welcome to the second shift at the AV Club. Barsanti was only part of the problem.

It really is kind of amazing how Seinfeld thinks that PC wokeness has killed television comedy when Veep and Curb, shows featuring his former collaborators, both had some of the most non-PC, un-woke content and just recently left the air each after long, critically acclaimed and commercially successful runs. What the…

And here he hires his boss, DA Raymond Horgan (Bill Camp), as his lawyer for the trial.

Elaine devolves rapidly in the show around the dudetrio, and there’s even an arc where she finds a better version of them and becomes a better person but realizes she is addicted to being terrible and dumb.

I’d take Selena in a second over a sequel to Trump.

The genius of the book, somewhat captured by the movie, is how it showed the corruption of the city and the machinations behind the trial.

This doesn’t sound like it has captured that.

Anyway, without Raul Julia and John Spencer, I have no interest in this. 

I'm always overjoyed to talk about Midnight Run. Any time I have an opportunity to work it into a piece, I usually do.

Nothing in the film supports that it wasn’t an accident. If he was pissed, he could have killed him on the spot in the apartment. It would have just been one more body for whoever cleaned up the rest of it. He could have killed him when they got where they were going. As absurd as it was for him to have his gun out,…

“The Killer (Michael Fassbender) in, uh, The Killer.”