catnip

Losing time sounds like it should slot neatly into a ticking-clock suspense film, but it never achieves liftoff the way “Memento” turned an amnesiac’s daily struggle into catnip.

“When the Going Was Good” is catnip for those of us still addicted to magazines, who still harbor the delusion that we’ll get to that pile on the table as soon as we can.

Both artists are perennial Grammy favourites, and their virtuoso ballad will be catnip to voters.

The third and fourth episodes are premium catnip — the third being the chanciest, since it's a nearly 50-minute look at a sketch that runs five minutes and 42 seconds.

But the biopic genre has always been catnip to voters, and Jolie has the talent — and the patience — for working rooms.