The director places the camera and stages and frames the shots. The director of photography lights and selects the technical loadout necessary to achieve the look the director wants.

I think it might be Ishana’s actual middle name though (which isn’t uncommon for celebrities to name their kids using their stage names).

I saw Nelly Furtado on Tiny Desk this month.

The rapid rise of Chappell Roan, of Ice Spice, of a hundred other popular talents who appeared out of nowhere and may or may not be industry plants but we’ll probably never know.

Elaine devolves rapidly in the show around the dudetrio, and there’s even an arc where she finds a better version of them and becomes a better person but realizes she is addicted to being terrible and dumb.

Jerry Seinfeld has spent more than 20 years watching Larry David prove that he’s who everyone thought Jerry Seinfeld was while watching Seinfeld. And that existential crisis has hounded him more and more each day as everyone cheers on Larry David being both edgy AF and also not a sh**bird pedo like Jerry Seinfeld is.

Except for a brief time in the early 70s when every kid in the US was obsessed with Bruce Lee and the Enter The Dragon, Marvel has never known what to do with Shang Chi.

They could take a page from Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness and name the film after the Avengers but have the plot actually be about a different character, with the Avengers as sidekicks.

Reminder: Quantumania was, in fact, terrible.

The movie ended with him aborting himself, so maybe all those eggs and flour were just so people could get a big bite of bread in the end.

We’re at a time when Garfield being projected to make $200 million dollars in lifelong box office is getting it called an “unexpected hit” because they made it for the cost of a mid-level indie film.

So movies, music, and novelsaren’t art because focus testing and market research?

Didn’t you just reinforce the point, though, that he was given opportunities that turned out to be crap and the industry pretty much called it a day with him?

It isn’t to create generational talent

They don’t lay people off to change direction. They lay people off to cut outflow so dividends to stockholders go up and they can keep their jobs. They then hire people to work for less money and cut another bunch of people next year.

Even in the first film, I found it weird that Riley’s emotions are multi-gender but other people’s seem to strictly align with the gender of the person they inhabit. Unless Riley is a stealth gender-fluid character?

Toy Story 4 is a result of the hit sequel trifecta: profitable IP, ongoing universe, hugely positive reviews.

I feel like the relatively tepid critical reception (I do not care about box office) of Pixar’s last several years’ worth of original films (as opposed to sequels) is because their blend of whimsy and deep emotion (with stellar writing, plotting, and casting) was pretty amazing for a while, but now we’ve seen it…

This is literally all anyone has ever asked. And I take it to reflect that Maya Hawke is confident enough as an actress and artist and comfortable enough in her career to know she’s going to be weighed favorably on her merits against her advantages and it doesn’t make her less if someone else got screwed over it. To…

Except the economic motivations of those hiring nepo children isn’t to fill a role that sells a lot of tickets, it’s to create a generational talent with access to the same network of contacts and producers that the parent had. Lily Rose-Depp, Scott Eastwood, Zosia Mamet. These aren’t actors getting jobs because…