The Movie Lawyer
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Appellate criminal defense attorney, movie lover, gamer, dad, little-league coach, husband, ex-USAF, father of a USN sailor.
A surprisingly large percentage of the cast of Designated Survivor have been arrested this week.
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM
A surprisingly large percentage of the cast of Designated Survivor have been arrested this week.
I wonder if The Mountain Goats see a spike in downloads and sales of This Year on NYE/New Year’s Day.
December 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I wonder if The Mountain Goats see a spike in downloads and sales of This Year on NYE/New Year’s Day.
Don’t just be a henchman. Be a henchmensch.
December 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Don’t just be a henchman. Be a henchmensch.
Rian Johnson moved from noir to Blanc, and slips in a “PINO” joke in the new one.
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Rian Johnson moved from noir to Blanc, and slips in a “PINO” joke in the new one.
The Kat Abughazaleh holy water thing looks a bit staged, doesn't it? The acting seems wooden, nobody seems surprised by anything the other is saying, and Kat kinda seems to feed the bag-giver talking points. Also: identical comments on her bsky and Reddit posts
I dunno, maybe I'm overly suspicious.
I dunno, maybe I'm overly suspicious.
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Kat Abughazaleh holy water thing looks a bit staged, doesn't it? The acting seems wooden, nobody seems surprised by anything the other is saying, and Kat kinda seems to feed the bag-giver talking points. Also: identical comments on her bsky and Reddit posts
I dunno, maybe I'm overly suspicious.
I dunno, maybe I'm overly suspicious.
Pour one out for all of the students who have papers due today, when Cloudflare crapped ChatGPT's bed.
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Pour one out for all of the students who have papers due today, when Cloudflare crapped ChatGPT's bed.
Congratulations, fragile white men. You've forced scholarship committees to now pretend to be colorblind just like every U.S. institution has pretended to be colorblind for the last 75 years. I'm sure the diversity scholarships will start flowing to all of the Masons and Mackenzie's any minute now.
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Congratulations, fragile white men. You've forced scholarship committees to now pretend to be colorblind just like every U.S. institution has pretended to be colorblind for the last 75 years. I'm sure the diversity scholarships will start flowing to all of the Masons and Mackenzie's any minute now.
The word “trampoline” sounds like the fuel that a promiscuous woman runs on. Like, “Are you exhausted after making out with just two men at the bar? Try new Tramp-oline, our special high-octane formulation of vodka and Red Bull, and party all night long!”
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The word “trampoline” sounds like the fuel that a promiscuous woman runs on. Like, “Are you exhausted after making out with just two men at the bar? Try new Tramp-oline, our special high-octane formulation of vodka and Red Bull, and party all night long!”
We don’t deserve this World Series.
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
We don’t deserve this World Series.
If Johnny Depp had a nickel for every movie he was in about a man with blades for fingers, he would have two nickels…which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
If Johnny Depp had a nickel for every movie he was in about a man with blades for fingers, he would have two nickels…which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
I just saw a trailer for House of Dynamite and it bummed me out because movies about mutually-assured nuclear destruction haven’t been particularly relevant to the zeitgeist since my childhood. But here we are, again.
October 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I just saw a trailer for House of Dynamite and it bummed me out because movies about mutually-assured nuclear destruction haven’t been particularly relevant to the zeitgeist since my childhood. But here we are, again.
While Trump is bulldozing the White House, Pritzker is building a veteran’s home. Maybe the Texas National Guard just came here for better veteran’s services?
Welcome home to the new Illinois Veterans' Home at Quincy.
This was one of the largest and most important projects in our Rebuild Illinois capital construction program.
I'm so proud to see that promise in action — and make clear to our veterans that our state is on your side.
This was one of the largest and most important projects in our Rebuild Illinois capital construction program.
I'm so proud to see that promise in action — and make clear to our veterans that our state is on your side.
October 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
While Trump is bulldozing the White House, Pritzker is building a veteran’s home. Maybe the Texas National Guard just came here for better veteran’s services?
Nothing but respect for my Governor.
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Nothing but respect for my Governor.
Nobody ever asks what happened to Grampa Smith and why his wife’s apples are so delicious.
October 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Nobody ever asks what happened to Grampa Smith and why his wife’s apples are so delicious.
Nicholas Meyer wrote two DIFFERENT movies about people traveling through time to modern-day San Francisco — one from the future and one from the past. In both movies, the woman they meet in SF decides to travel through time with the hero.
October 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Nicholas Meyer wrote two DIFFERENT movies about people traveling through time to modern-day San Francisco — one from the future and one from the past. In both movies, the woman they meet in SF decides to travel through time with the hero.
Welp. Go Dodgers, I guess.
October 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Welp. Go Dodgers, I guess.
I really hope that the future doesn’t refer to 2025 as the Civil Cold War, like some kind of pre-Ft. Sumter tension point.
October 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I really hope that the future doesn’t refer to 2025 as the Civil Cold War, like some kind of pre-Ft. Sumter tension point.
Look, I’ve heard the “first they came for…” poem a lot lately. And I promise I will speak up soon. But I might wait until after they are done coming for the prosecutors.
October 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Look, I’ve heard the “first they came for…” poem a lot lately. And I promise I will speak up soon. But I might wait until after they are done coming for the prosecutors.
Security is great and all, but the site I'm most happy about having two-factor authentication is Westlaw. God forbid anyone ever find out the dumb shit I have to research and double-check sometimes. They'd yank my bar card.
October 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Security is great and all, but the site I'm most happy about having two-factor authentication is Westlaw. God forbid anyone ever find out the dumb shit I have to research and double-check sometimes. They'd yank my bar card.
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The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.
October 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.
just got an email from my local Democratic Party office, reminding me that their “September Party Meeting” will be held on October 8, and it struck me as being very on-brand.
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
just got an email from my local Democratic Party office, reminding me that their “September Party Meeting” will be held on October 8, and it struck me as being very on-brand.
You know, I hate Kristie Noem, but when they wouldn’t let her use the bathroom, she missed the opportunity to go to the Kinzie Street Bridge and do the funniest thing.
October 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
You know, I hate Kristie Noem, but when they wouldn’t let her use the bathroom, she missed the opportunity to go to the Kinzie Street Bridge and do the funniest thing.
Go see One Battle After Another. See it in wide format, like IMAX, if possible. Best movie of the year (and I thought Sinners was a lock)
October 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Go see One Battle After Another. See it in wide format, like IMAX, if possible. Best movie of the year (and I thought Sinners was a lock)
So, the decision to keep ICE fully funded and operational during the shutdown shows that the philosophy must be "get out of our country before you try to take advantage of the hypothetical services that we aren't offering to anybody."
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
So, the decision to keep ICE fully funded and operational during the shutdown shows that the philosophy must be "get out of our country before you try to take advantage of the hypothetical services that we aren't offering to anybody."
It's always hilarious when judges and justices in my State urge lawyers to stand up to bullying. It's the ultimate game of "stop hitting yourself."
October 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It's always hilarious when judges and justices in my State urge lawyers to stand up to bullying. It's the ultimate game of "stop hitting yourself."