I’m afraid I am a bit like Donald Trump, who continues to hold out hope that he might get a fair shake from liberal media outlets like The New York Times

I had hoped, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the venerable CBS show 60 Minutes might somehow, some way, escape the taint of biased institutions like, well, CBS.

I should have known after the Lesley Stahl interview with Trump several years ago that even 60 Minutes was hopelessly unreliable.

 

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Three things I don’t expect we will ever get to the bottom of: UFOs, the Kennedy assassination, and the Epstein client list. Maybe four things. Depends on what happens with the investigations into the attempted assassinations of Trump.

 

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Like most people (or most men), I had never heard of podcaster Alexandra Cooper. So I’d like to thank Kamala Harris for bringing the blonde to my attention. Below are some pictures of Cooper. Some of the photos are real, but some are what they call “leaked nudes.” Who knows what’s real and what isn’t?

 

 

Maybe Kamala should have chosen Cooper as her running mate. The blonde podcaster certainly has a nicer ass than Tim Walz has.

 

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by Richard Osman

 

Here’s the thing about “cozy” mysteries: If they are too cozy, they lose their edge. And then you have a bland reading experience.

The Thursday Murder Club walks the fine line between warm and fuzzy — with a few dark passages — and watching an episode of, oh, I don’t know, The Golden Girls, perhaps? There are some chuckles to be had, but not much depth to the characters.

The plot follows four lovable senior citizens living in a retirement village who attempt to solve crimes. For fun. To me, the elderly sleuths were pleasant enough, but not terribly interesting. The mystery is likewise underwhelming.

I notice that they are making a movie out of this novel (the first in a series by Osman), starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie. Judging from that cast, I’m thinking this might be one time when the movie could be better than the book.

 

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Could the much-anticipated “October surprise” be an embittered Joe Biden, doing what he can to sabotage the people who sabotaged his presidency, by attaching himself to Harris? Ah, the delicious irony.

 

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Well, we only have so much money. Better to send it to the Ukrainians and to help illegal aliens with their rent money or mortgages than to spend it on taxpaying Americans in crisis.

 

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I am growing quite fond of Chris Gore of Film Threat. Judging from his enthusiastic gushing about nudity in the clip below, the dude is apparently an “ass man.” As am I.

 

 

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Time didn’t want you to see this picture, so we are doing our part to show it to you, as a reminder, just before the election:

 

 

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Seems to me that all you need to know is that Kamala and Joe not only enabled the above migrations, but actively encouraged them.

 

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I have to wonder if, whoever it was that wrote this “parents’ guide” on IMDB about the new horror movie, The Substance, was aware that the movie’s director is a woman who, presumably, has a female gaze.

Here is a clip from director Coralie Fargeat’s previous movie, Revenge. Looks like there is even more “male gazing”:

 

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We said goodbye to Leah Peters this week on Big Brother. Here is some actual male gazing at Leah:

 

 

 

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I guess when you have a name like Brock Purdy, you have to expect this kind of thing.

 

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Our website host informed us a few days ago that The Grouchy Editor had been “attacked” — 32,000 times, give or take.

The assault, possibly from overseas, temporarily shut us down. As you can see, we are back up and running. We are upgrading firewall protections to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. 

The site should be back to normal soon, but no “Weekly Review” today.

 

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

 

As I rewatched, after many years, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir recently, I tried to recall why I had such fond memories of it. It’s a pleasant enough yarn, in which a young widow (Gene Tierney) encounters the ghost of a ship’s captain (Rex Harrison) when she moves into a seaside house.

The story was charming and amusing, but no more so than many other romantic comedies of its era.

But then … the final 20 minutes of the movie transpired, and I was struck by how powerful the ending was. Amid all the playful banter between the ghost and Mrs. Muir, screenwriter Philip Dunne had been planting seeds about the things that we regret in life, and the things we do not regret.

The payoff is motion-picture magic and a good example of why we say, “they don’t make movies like that anymore.” Release: 1947  Grade: A

 

Would I watch it again?  Yes.

 

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Civil War

 

An admission: I had already reviewed, in my imagination, much of this movie from reading other critics and pundit analyses shortly after its release in April. From what I read, Civil War appeared to be just another “woke” bulletin from Hollywood, issuing warnings about “threats to democracy” from the right.

The actor playing the U.S. president, according to the articles, resembled Trump — a cowardly Trump. One horrific scene featured MAGA-like militiamen terrorizing the protagonists, four heroic journalists on their way to Washington D.C. during a new civil war. Worst of all, those journalists were painted in quite a positive light. This during a time when journalism as a profession is at its lowest point.

Now that I’ve seen the movie, it turns out there is some truth in all of that conjecturing of mine. If the movie leans politically, it’s certainly to the left.

But what I did not expect was the bigger picture. Alex Garland’s film is primarily a powerful warning. If we can’t bridge our differences, we’re headed straight into a national nightmare — for both the left and the right. Release: 2024  Grade: A-

 

Would I watch it again?  Yes.

 

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I Wonder …

 

I wonder if my Twitter (excuse me: “X”) account will be reinstated after the November election.

 

I wonder how the left will behave in 2025 if Harris wins.

I wonder how the left will behave in 2025 if Trump wins.

I don’t much wonder how the right will behave in 2025, no matter which side wins.

 

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I wonder, if it’s true that history is “written by the winners,” how historians 50 years from now will cover this tumultuous period.

I take that back. I won’t be around in 50 years, so what’s the point of wondering?

 

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I wonder where the United States will land in a ranking of the world’s most powerful countries, 20 years from now.

I wonder if the United States will be completely dominated by women in the near future.

 

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I wonder how much of our history and/or culture will still exist in 50 years. I wonder if the left will erase most of it.

 

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I’m done wondering. Time to see if my dog-and-cat stew is ready to eat.

 

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I do!

 

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The critics — all four of them — agree. This must be a good movie!

 

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I put together a little chart for the “Swifties”:

 

 

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I am supposed to be on vacation, but I didn’t want to go without posting this picture:

 

 

I like to think that I follow politics and current affairs a bit more than the average person. But if that’s true, how on Earth have I never heard of this woman? Rich, smart, gorgeous … and RFK’s running mate?

Shame on me.

But Nicole Shanahan, apparently, is responsible for this commercial, which I really dig.

 

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The Dream Team?

 

Standing, left to right: Gabbard, Barron Trump (kneeling), Vance, Ramaswamy, Kennedy

 

The big announcement yesterday by RFK Jr. is clearly good news for Donald Trump.

One more move by Trump that would make me even more optimistic — asking Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy to join Kennedy on the Trump team.

Add to that the possibility of more whistleblowers exposing the corrupt Deep State, and I might be (gasp!) cautiously optimistic about the future of the U.S.A.

 

Assuming, of course, that Trump, Kennedy, Ramaswamy and Gabbard don’t all get assassinated.

 

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A note on the photo above:  Hey, we are novices at this “deep fake” business. You might have noticed, for example, that Barron Trump does not seem to be very tall. Either something is amiss with the photo, or Barron is on his knees. You decide.

 

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