It’s a troubling change in an increasingly frail digital news business, where companies have little choice but to rely on social media’s biggest gatekeeper.

Word! You can reference pretty much anything from the Miyazaki catalogue for various aspects: Nausicaä for wonder and world-building, Mononoke for action and characterization, Spirited Away for ... well, everything. Alas, too many folks happy to gobble up utterly mediocre fare to the tune of billions.  

LITERALLY jumped down here to make a joke about Republicans furiously writing legislation opposing this, but ... this is the better joke. *high-five*

Great list, but it’s missing The Late Philip J. Fry. I refer to a certain voting bloc as The Dumblocks at least once a week (inner monologue, anyway). 

Imagine working for Amazon of all places—a company that exists to encourage cheap, effortless, mindless consumption—and making a principled stand on climate change. Sure, Jan(s).

1000%. We had a Model 3 for about a year, and I never missed the physical buttons. Music control through the wheel, and everything else (maps, Spotify) through the screen was a delight (seriously, tapping in an address on a full, responsive keyboard was *chef’s kiss*). I always set the temp to auto, and occasionally…

The right has a love affair with unfuckable male faces. The dumber the better. Trump, DeSantis, Graham ... I mean, Mitch Mcconnell is the very definition of nightmare fuel.

Uh huh, the viewers who bothered to open Twitter to watch two of the most uncharismatic men in history jerk each other off were definitely undecided voters. A king has been made!

Not everyone wants to invest three hours in haggling. Some of us just want to know the price of something and then buy it. You know, like in most other aspects of American consumerism. All the better if I can do it online and it gets delivered. 

JFC, he’s still talking about X- The Everything App! 

Brother in christ, Disney is not just Florida’s largest employer, it’s the largest single-site employer in the world. It employs 75,000 people in central Florida. There is zero chance of them “picking up and leaving,” because money, but also because DeSantis can do f*ck all to them.

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…