That wig! The HOW and the WHY of it all! It looks like Katherine Heigl is playing an American Girl doll on SNL. How in 2023 is a Scarlett-Johansson-in-Iron-Man-2 wig still acceptable? To be fair, I haven’t seen the show. IS she playing some kind of giant doll? IS her character in disguise?

“You’re funny, it’s the Bulgarian clown in you.”

Hah, I see you’re getting flack in the comments, but I had the same thought, like— “oh good, she’s doing the cinematic photo thing! How visual!”

I really f*cking love Spy. It’s one of those movies I put off watching forever due to Melissa McCarthy burnout, when really it was just Melissa McCarthy’s husband’s movies burnout. That movie is just a damn delight. Everyone in the cast sparkles. Rose Byrne in particular just f*cks me up. “What a stupid f*cking…

Also when you compare anyone to Lashana Lynch they’re going to come off poorly. 

They’re not doing her any favors with the writing. The most they’ve let her do is just kinda ... be in the room. Add to that her powers are so ill defined (light stuff! things go through me! because ... light?).

From the Prometheus school of “do science by touching it with your finger!”

Exactly. I was thinking- he must be lovely and agreeable to work with since this is his second Disney film. 

On one hand, you know, I like David Lowery movies, so good on him ($). On the other, I can’t help but feel utterly bummed about the current state of imaginative, auteur-led films feeling like drab, CGI nothings. It’s all so un-tactile and same-y. How long ago was Babe: Pig in the City? Imagine this, but that! Productio…

Jeannie Darcy’s first appearance was sublime. Such a perfectly realized manifestation of that 90's stand up staple. And it has never been funny since. I appreciate it’s SNL, so - take joke, repeat - but there’s no point in going back to this well other than “remember HER?!” with no additional nuance or flavor. Which,…

It’s not (Beautiful was the single from that album that performed well and actually stuck around), but it is rife for looking back and re-evaluating how we treated X female celebrity, which is a fine and fair thing.  

Wait, Skrulls can turn their arms into giant tree vines ala Groot? I thought they just changed their general appearance and weren’t, uh, liquid metal.

Exactly the opposite for me. First outing I thought was fine, but really clicked with the second. As with all anthologies, YMMV, I guess. 

He ordered the Rivian on the advice of family members who had Rivians.

This is the natural evolution of our society’s constant demonization of drinking and driving. We treat it as an ever-present evil that must be snuffed out at all costs, rather a poor decision that a few people make.

Working with horses on set must be an absolute nightmare for everyone involved.

He also eats pudding with his fingers!

Midsomer Murders has been killing British villagers in increasingly inventive and bizarre ways for 20+ years.

The energy she brings to that Harrison Ford interview will be delightful for Bake Off! Love Matt, but he never really clicked for me as a host. 

Back in the 90s criticisms of youth culture weren’t viewed as so reactionary and so could find their place amongst thoughtful liberal conversation.