HBO is officially developing ‘THE BIRDS’, a new series inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's film. Starring Sarah Snook, the series is a modern-day reimagining of the film set in Alaska with a murder mystery at the center. (Source: Deadline)

"Carpet bomb them all". Speaking to The Guardian at an event ahead of Israel’s elections, a young Israeli woman called for Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from the Gaza Strip, saying they should be killed if they cannot be removed.

‘THE SIMPSONS’ will air an episode titled ‘The Kosmic Kruiser’ where Bart and Lisa break into Krustyland’s “most notorious and failed attraction.” Jenny Nicholson will appear in a guest role.

I do have to ask as an old person: what kind of show is this Ethan Klein thing? Why would an audience sit through the hosts just talking about a water bottle for this long? Because of this affair thing I’m seeing a ton of clips from the show and is it really just banter for hours? Reminds me of FM radio drive time shows but those would mostly play music and do the banter in between songs. Or are these clips not representative of the thrust of the stream? What am I missing?

re: Ebert occasionally "missing" on a great movie, I think people forget that the point of criticizing art is not to be "correct," it's to engage with the work sincerely; a critic should be evaluated less on "correctness" and more the consistency/depth of their work