and why weren’t the cops doing anything?!  Isn’t it their job to protect the kid?!  This guy might hurt him. 

The Truman Show is so weirdly underrated. Fantastic, fantastic (and wildly prophetic) film. Certainly it’s better than As Good as It Gets and The Full Monty. And it has something far more interesting to say than Titanic and Good Will Hunting.

That’s the classic tv trope, right?  The defense attorney randomly giving a speech during a cross examination.  In a real courtroom a judge would lose their shit if a defense attorney pulled that nonsense.  It’s extraordinarily unfair and potentially poisons the jury.  The consequences could be devastating if the…

This was baffling to me as well.  Why on earth would he lie about something he knew could be easily disproved?!

I think the bigger question here is why the hell did the prosecutor put him on the stand in the first place?! There is no question about the identity of the body, for instance, that the prosecutor would need his testimony to answer. His testimony wasn’t necessary, and it opens the door for cross examination to…

hey richard ... it’s your dad ...

well played, sir

“I’d argue that the most common change in a director’s cut is 5-45 minutes of extra padding that fucks up the pacing.”

Good stuff. I like the sound of Mamalarky. Going to check that out.

hahahaha “threatening.”  It’s a word one rarely uses to describe the interior of a home.  But it’s spot on here

Not enough likes.  Tony Montana finding this too gauche is the comment of the week.

Maybe it’s not the actors that are driving the lack of excitement, but rather the trailers we’ve seen so far? It looks like a really slick network production. Which, I don’t know ... blah?

What’s the current thinking as to whether you can contract this virus from touching surfaces? There still doesn’t seem to be any consensus on this issue.  The literature is all over the place.

I think you’re missing the heart of Zack’s question, though.  While, generally speaking, it’s silly to question the motives of a serial killer, it’s a question that MUST be asked here.  Because, otherwise, WHY IS SHE IN THIS SHOW?!  This is a show about warring crime families in 1950 KC.  If she has no motivation…

That’s all well and good ... so why is she in this show?  This show is about warring crime families in 1950 KC.  And also about a random serial killer?  Why?

Spot on.  A part for a spaceship!!  It’s so utterly silly.

If someone told 1999 Me, as I walked into the theater, that there is a “podrace” scene in the movie I was about to see that itself runs an inexplicable 9 minutes, and the plot surrounding the race IS nearly 1/3 of the movie, and it plays out like a Looney- Tunes cartoon, and it includes (i) a racer that craps out and…

“As an aside, I’d say that RotJ is the best Star Wars film up until you see Wicket’s feet. The ‘failed’ rescue of Han, the death of Jabbi and the speed biker chase scene are Star Wars on top form.”

Speaking of victimhood, yesterday I was reading an opinion piece in WSJ (mainly because I like to look at the MAGA hats getting trolled in the comment section) and among the conservatives as a whole - NOT limited to MAGA chuds - is this WHOLLY ACCEPTED characterization of the impeachment proceedings as nothing more…

I don’t understand how we can talk about terrible acting on this show and not talk about the woman who plays Swanee. WOW is she bad. And that southern(?) or Texas(?) accent she puts on makes it ten times worse. I feel like Gaetano, Zelmare and Swanee are in a different show than the rest of the cast. It’s Looney Tunes-…