Ochiba also says at the start before Ishido proposes marriage that she won’t celebrate or buy that Toranaga isn’t up to something until Toranaga is actually there with his forehead touching the floor in submission. The Hiromatsu thing convinced her

Last point, I think Ochiba genuflecting is meant to show that she’s fully bought that Toranaga is surrending and that the plan succeeded. She was being told that she picked the wrong one between Toranaga and Ishido and that Ishido wasn’t cut out to win this war, all while she doesn’t trust Toranaga and assumes he must…

I’ve always loved the two-storey decapitation lawnmower, and hoped it would turn up again in another project, any project. Seems like the kind of thing Toki and Murderface would drive around on just to go to the store.

Damn, Mariko’s husband is one rage filled cuck.

I have a funny feeling Ishido’s large bamboo vessel resembling ship that was anchored at the beach would be blown to smithereens by cannons on board Blackthorne’s The Erasmus

It’s a Frenchicism. “Utiliser” means “to use” in French. Now usually that’s the opposite as with the famous “supporter” - which in French means “to carry” or “to endure” - is used today in French in the English meaning “to support” because the English word “supporter” (for sport aficionados of a particular team) has…

Other cities, too… maybe a Ghostbusters in Los Angeles, where they actually have a ghost come to THEM for help.  The ghost could be a 1940s-era private detective, who can’t find rest until he solves the Black Dahlia murder.

What makes you uncomfortable about utilized over used? The reason “underutilized” works so well in acting terms is that a character can be in the whole film, in every scene in some capacity and therefore “used” the whole time but as they are in the back-ground and rarely speak, “underutilized” offers the caveat that…

Yeah, this whole thing, via trailer, feels like the director trying to make sense of his own blackness, where maybe he’s too accommodating to white people. As opposed to the magical negro trope, which isn’t even about magic or necessarily white comfort, but a black person just on the outside of the protagonist, whose…

I’m always a bit mystified that people rarely credit Sigourney Weaver’s performance in Ghostbusters. Her acting elevated the movie, and the chemistry between her and Bill Murray created the heart of the story. IMHO, that’s the missing piece of the sequels - someone outside the primary quartet you actually cared about.

This was another wonderful episode. The show does a great job of foregrounding women, and the different ways they can exert influence in this particular patriarchy without lapsing into ahistoricism. Incredibly tense scenes between Mariko and Blackthorne at the brothel. I did wonder if the mention of ‘doomed lovers’ by…

Sorry to Bother You made me wish that every movie included an army of centaurs battling racist cops.

I would have more confidence if the Russo brothers were still directing. Julius Onah has only directed three feature-length films, and they don’t appear to have been received horribly well. If it’s a good movie, it’ll be the best movie he’s ever made.

I’ve seen a few wraps of it and I’ve seen it naked.   Honestly the burgundy black color is one of the best ones I’ve seen on it.  Naked, is still kind of meh. 

These look like something I would draw in second grade.  I take that back, I drew better stuff in second grade. 

Why even order a Cybertruck? if you can’t immediately flip it for twice what you paid?

I watched this last night and the theater while full seemed to enjoy this more on a campy talk to the screen level than on a hold your breathe and be fascinated and scared level. It was almost a little bit too silly even by horror movie standards. 

Ohhhh I never picked up on that, I just assumed it cos everyone thought he smelt bad so they wanted him to wash in the ocean

It’s a mode that was perhaps best executed by Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China: The hypothetical White Savior who’s actually a dingus, but stays likeable

This is a great write up, but I have to disagree with you about the courtesan scene. He wasn’t trying to avoid making it seem like he thinks all Japanese women look alike, he was trying to hide his disappointment that it wasn’t (he is lead to believe) Mariko.