Calm down, Fred.

So don’t really do anything different and let the IOC corruption continue so as not to risk possibly offending people in developing countries that don’t likely much give a shit about the games?

Meanwhile the developing world should not be trying to show off how far they’ve come by blowing money they don’t have.  Brazil is exhibit A. 

But people like the Olympics a lot. They’re fun and exciting in a way that nothing else in the world is, and millions/billions of people look forward to enjoying them every four years.

If this all sounds like an unrelentingly gloomy picture of the Olympic Games, well, it is.

I would have also accepted A Little Bit Louder Now

why do you say that? have you watched it yet? i watched last night and so far, it is incredible with zero disrespect. the disrespect is that this story hasn’t been told before - other than in history books. I also highly doubt that George Takei would participate if he didn’t feel that this horrible chapter in our…

He buried Meek but it wasn’t even close with Push

Plus, showing their "new mother" would have ruined the surprise.

Yesssss on The Drum, even more so than Harold. Because it is not random cruelty at all, it is just far out of proportion to what the protagonists — young people the same age as many of the people reading the story — expect, and it is the most primal fear a kid with parents can have, that of abandonment. Schwartz tells…

Scariest story for you other than Harold? The Drum, with the little girls who misbehave and consequently lose their mother and get a new mother with glass eyes and a wooden tail. The sheer random cruelty of it stayed with me.

I get what your saying, and I too would like to see a classic anthology format ala Creepshow or Tales from the Crypt. But if the one of the core tenets of narrative filmmaking is to remain intact, you must provide the critical conduit for the audience through compelling characters. It’s a tried and true technique. To…

I think she’s very funny, despite being in some bad funny movies. (She got my biggest laugh in Ghostbusters purely on her delivery.) But man is she great in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

I like her comedic collaborations with Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat, and especially Spy), but her worst movies are the ones produced by her husband, and they really should stop working together.

Tiffany Haddish’s big breakthrough came when she was about 40 years old, so she’s seizing her chance before Hollywood decides it’s done with the middle-aged black actress.

I liked Widows but I still say it would have been better as a 6-episode TV show, to give it time to dig into the characters’ lives and motivations.

Widows is so good! I can’t believe it disappointed at the box office. I hope it gets more love in the future.

James “Chubby” Wells, who went on to find success as an NBA agent in the mid-2000s, representing role players around the league like Dale Davis and Ramon Sessions...

Very.

Yes.