Month: December 2018

I might not mention this, except that she is doing it while clad in a bikini, which makes it tantalizing.

Camilla Luddington gets nailed by that bald dude in an episode of Californication (s5e8)

Californication was a great example of a show not knowing when to hang it up. The first season was marvelous. The next two were quite good. After that, the writers were just going through the motions.

Trump’s Tweet:

“The Mueller Angry Democrats recently deleted approximately 19,000 Text messages between FBI Agent Lisa Page and her lover, Agent Peter S. These Texts were asked for and INVALUABLE to the truth of the Witch Hunt Hoax. This is a total Obstruction of Justice. All Texts Demanded!”

Even by his own lofty standards for dissembling, this is impressive. He must really feel the walls closing in, because this is truly desperate.

1. Mueller, a Republican, was not involved in the texts which were temporarily missing.
2. All of the texts were eventually recovered. OIG’s report.
3. The whole story is old news. It seemed like it might have been a story for a while, at least in the Fox News definition of a story, because a Samsung glitch failed to archive the texts properly, then Page’s phone was scrubbed in order to be re-assigned to another agent, but it turned out that the agency was eventually able to recover all of the texts anyway. (Hey, people love the oldies. How long until he starts demanding Obama’s birth certificate?)
4. Spreading lies in order to impede an investigation is a textbook example of obstruction of justice. Ironically, in a Tweet accusing others of obstruction of justice, he obstructed justice, or at least attempted to! Noice!

So basically the true part of his Tweet ended after the first word, which was “The.”

Several experts defend their choices.

1974 was a foolish choice. It was such a bad year for films that they couldn’t come up with five respectable Oscar nominees. The Towering Inferno was nominated as Best Picture. People remember the year fondly because three of the iconic films in history appeared then: Godfather II, Blazing Saddles and Chinatown. Those were genuine stars, but there was no supporting cast.

Rosie Huntington Whiteley in a behind-the-scenes film made in conjunction with the 2009 Pirelli Calendar.

How the internet has changed our lives:

Netflix says over 45 million accounts have watched ‘Bird Box’.

Assuming two people per viewing, that’s equivalent to 90 million ticket sales.

To place that into perspective, about 200 million people have seen Gone With the Wind in the theaters, and that’s the most-watched theatrical movie of all time. That took 80 years. The mediocre Bird Box (52 score at Metacritic) reached nearly 100 million people in one week!

It’s no wonder the Coen Brothers are willing to eschew the theaters.

Because nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition, Michael Palin has a knighthood, still no cheese.

Related: Unseen ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ Sketches Found in Michael Palin’s Archives

The critics agreed with me on this one: a complete waste of time

The trailer (below) had some good laughs, so you should save some money and just watch the trailer, because those were the only funny moments in the entire film.

Some choice comments from critics:

It’s so painfully unfunny we’re not sure it can legally be called a comedy.

“Holmes & Watson” is one of those movies that goes beyond unfunny and into a comedy-cubist zone, where jokes are no longer recognizable and laughter is philosophically impossible.

The Government Suggests Furloughed Workers Do Chores for Landlords to Help Pay Rent

Cover of Grazia magazine for its 80th anniversary issue. (September 2018)