You conflated the character’s name with the actor’s name, because she was THAT GOOD. Also, I can’t believe no one has yet mentioned Rainn Wilson.
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Twisters, on the plane to NOLA. This is not a good movie, but it’s a good movie to watch on a plane. Lotta jump scares, a plot twist (hah!) you can see coming from two states away, some semi-heavy-handed environmental/social justice stuff. And Maura Tierney!
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Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary
This is currently on Max. I enjoyed this look at late 70s- early 80s soft rock.
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On account of your facial hair, perhaps…?
I binged three episodes last night. Loved it. The smoking 
, I know I smoked when I worked in offices, and other people did too, but I have no specific memory of doing so. I wonder how much typing I did if I was always lighting a ciggy.
Back in my smoking days I could easily go through half a pack at work.
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Double feature at casa lingua last night. First up, Sissy, and Australian horror flick with an almost entirely female cast. Surprisingly enjoyable, especially once we caught on to the plot, about which the less said, the better. Really quite good.
Second, Gremlins — only bc my PIC had never seen it before, and Shout TV was showing an MST3K episode yesterday afternoon on what was clearly a (terrible) knock-off.*
I enjoyed it more than he did. That scene where the poor lady goes flying out of the window in her chair lift is still the funniest moment in the movie 
*Found it! Spectacularly terrible.
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Not sure how, but it seems I deleted my own post. Here it is again.
Clue (1985) - dir. Jonathan Lynn
If you weren’t around in 1985 or missed it on its initial release, you might not remember than Clue was, besides being one of (if not the) first board-game-to-movie adaptations (Never forget the laughable Battleship), released in three distinct versions, each with a different ending. And this was on film, so to see all three endings, you had to visit different theaters, and figure out which theater had which ending.
My friends and I thought this was neat and dutifully sought them all out, but the critics and the general
Public weren’t so accommodating. The film did poorly.
But the home release collected all three endings in an extended cut, and a few minor oy amusing jokes suddenly became clever running gags. The film remains, to my mind, surpassed only by Murder By Death (Eileen Brennan is in BOTH!) as the best possible mystery parody. The cast is nothing but ringers including Tim Curry and Leslie Ann Warren and Martin Mull, but especially the always brilliant and side-splittingly funny Madeline Khan, whose presence in any scene automatically makes it better. Her line readings are an absolute master class is comedic timing.
Also, fun bonus fact: the singing telegram girl is Jane Wiedlin, guitarist and chief songwriter for The Go-Go’s
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Hobgoblins can be fun a bad movie watch but only with the assistance of MST3K or Rifftrax commentary. Hobgoblins 2 was recently given the Rifftrax treatment, but, even with decent jokes laid on top of it, is unwatchable (essentially a cash grab meant to profit of the bad-movie notoriety of the first one). same for Samurai Cop 2 (the first one is a bad movie classic though).
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I find almost any movie can be made palatable with the assistance of MST3K 
The worse, the better.
Enjoying Chef Ranveer Brar’s channel on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/@RanveerBrar
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I heard this story on NPR this morning.
I think of Steely Dan as being mofe like in the Jazze genre.
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We enjoyed the first 2 episodes of The Agency with Michael Fassbender last night.
We started watching FBI: Most Wanted starring Dylan McDermott. I don’t know if I’ve seen him in anything since The Practice.
The season finale of From was as bizarre & bleak as to be expected. While I’m hopeful for another season, I’m getting hints of Lost, which… lost us eventually bc we grew increasingly tired of the nonsense.
Also watched the most recent epis of Bad Sisters, which I recall to have more lightness and humor in the first season.
That was a good show. I love him, but haven’t liked anything he’s been in since. There was a hostage show at some point.
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He was, IIRC, in the first season of the Ryan Murphy American Horror Story anthology series, which was interesting for a while before, like every Ryan Murphy series, going completely off the rails (see also: Nip/Tuck, Glee, etc )
We enjoyed Nip/Tuck for what it was — a gloriously over-the-top soap, although that was far too long ago to remember now how many seasons we ended up watching, since it got more ridiculous with each season.
Never got past the first episode of the first ever AHS. I think we checked into the season with Jessica Lange, but not even she could save it.
Not scary, not interesting, just blah.
I made it through a couple seasons of Nip/Tuck before bailing. Stuck it out through Glee in its entirety (I like musicals) despite it’s increasingly shaggy plotting. And watched one season of AHS, the Rosemary’s Baby one with Kim Kardashian, which was hilariously bad.
You know what was a good Ryan Murphy show? The New Normal. And it was yanked after one season.
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I don’t know if that’s restricted to Ryan Murphy, vs that its just hard to sustain something really good in the early seasons when they blow up and extend for longer than they probably should.
Agree on early seasons of Nip/Tuck and Glee.
