I agree 100% with your comments, though still enjoyed the movie despite it. The core characters are well cast, it looks gorgeous, it sounds great. That’s enough that it’s easy for me to forgive story issues.

I had an English teacher in high school, who one day told us we were watching a movie, and explicitly made a point not to tell us anything about it. He went off on a bit of a riff about how “that’s not how movies are meant to be watched”. The movie we watched: Catch-22. Other than having heard the phrase “catch 22"…

“artificial intelligence technologies are still in their infancy, decades away from developing the ability to hate” 

This article/video could have been four words:

There is definitely a choir-preaching vibe with a lot of late-night comedy. A lot of it is very funny, and is meaningfully biting satire, but it’s such an easy audience. There’s almost a Trump rally-vibe, where any laugh-line about the Trump’s administration gets huge laughs and cheers. What’s the point of making good…

I wasn’t looking at The Wasp’s driver’s license, I was just going by the action clips and publicity snapshots, in which the two ladies bear a more than passing resemblance.

I know the plot has some people concerned about the messaging of the movie, but with the talent involved we have every reason to expect that it will be a fundamentally good and entertaining movie. I can pretty easily look the other way on a movie having a dubious moral message, if it’s well made and tells its story in…

That’s Evangeline Lilly? I have been thinking for months that it was Tricia Helfer. 

I can’t get that mad about the Fallon interview. It’s been a Tonight Show tradition going back decades to have presidential candidates show up and be personable and goofy. And the Tonight Show isn’t 60 Minutes; it doesn’t purport to get to the bottom of anything. The interviews are about as far from “hard hitting” as…

I’m sure it’s not new (I just mean to suggest it seems like it’s becoming more common / mainstream), though your QVC example seems not totally analogous. That’s pure, direct product advertising, without any veneer of it being endorsed or supported by someone that we follow as an entertainer. That’s the context I’m…

Isn’t (wasn’t) Jimmy pretty much the only late night host who hadn’t gone aggressively political? (Maybe Conan, too?) In any event, speaking truth to power is not exactly Jimmy’s thing.

Ad reads with meta-commentary and snarky insincerity actually seem to be coming into favor, if podcasts are any indication (Pod Save America being the prime example, and quite possibly the trendsetter, but I’ve heard it elsewhere lately as well).

“why someone as brilliant as Norm MacDonald hadn’t yet been given his own talk show” — plus, he’s a male. And white!

It was just a mistake by the reviewer to call her Grace. The mistake is pointed out in the review of the second to last episode that featured MiB. The name’s always been Emily.

...That’s because it’s not over. Season 5 is being released in two halves.

Selection bias is a huge problem with all user rating systems. Even the genuine reviews, you only get from people who thought they would like it and so invested the time to watch it. What kind of person goes to Power Rangers on opening weekend? It’s not a random sample. It’s an issue with Netflix ratings, too,…

It’d be a shame to lose the show. I found the first couple episodes of the new season to be a bit rough, but I had some big laughs over the remaining episodes. 

He’s part of a JJ-verse of producers who’ve been involved with a lot of stuff that I’ve liked, particularly including Alias, Fringe, Limitless and MI: III. I also genuinely really liked the first new Star Trek movie, and at least liked the design aesthetic and special effects in the subsequent ones.

I think it sort of makes sense, based on evolutionary theory.

I think paranoia is how we’re supposed to read it rather than a cliffhanger. They showed us the shot of the security guard brain-scanning him and getting a green result (which I presume means “human” - since the guard didn’t flip out when he saw it). If the show really wanted to tease us that MiB might not be human,…