She was his wife at the time that @midnight shut down and it wouldn’t be weird in anyway if she was privy to the demonstrations of appreciation by staff and friends.

Let me preface this by saying that I believe Dykstra and I was fine with Hardwick losing his job(s). That said, the idea that Hardwick “sent his wife to attack a @midnight writer” as if she was a dog and not somebody with a mind of her own is gross and reductive.

Mel Gibson can go fuck himself.

I’m lucky because, here in Portland, Sinemia is covered by a large chunk of theaters (including arthouse). Once the Moviepass well has finally run dry, that’s probably where I’m heading.

I also felt that it was harrowing. Part of it was that I really fell for the “Barb had a change of heart” misdirection and part of it is because that is a really terrible way to go.

I call this the “Worf Problem” after hearing Ronald D. Moore talking about Star Trek: The Next Generation.

I’m kinda hoping that whatever happens to reverse the whole “Infinity Gauntlet Killed Half the Universe” thing also brings back Killmonger because he was, by far, the most interesting MCU villain.

FYI - Beth Dover, the actress who plays Linda, did not shave her head. She did an interview with Newsweek. It was “really great bald-cap work”

FYI, there are much better deals than what is on the list. I suggest checking out iTunes storefront directly because they have a lot of great movies from the 70's - 00's as well as a bunch of classics (like All About Eve and Night of the Hunter), all for $ 4.99.

Just saying, they have better stuff than just Leprechaun…

Every time that I despair about the state of the publishing industry and the death of book stores, I remember this cash grab bullshit that they have been pulling for decades and just stop.

Every time that I despair about the state of the publishing industry and the death of book stores, I remember this ca…

I’m mad that people are saying something that is plainly obvious...

I have no idea what content Walmart could possibly provide but I’ll keep an eye on it because their video service, Vudu, is the best place to buy movies digitally.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, give me your attention. I have come here to bury Moviepass, not to praise him.

The evil that men do is remembered after their deaths, but the good is often buried with them. It might as well be the same with Moviepass. The noble AV Club told you that Moviepass was ambitious. If that’s…

I’m exactly the same way. I have been using Moviepass for years and when they dropped the price to $10, I knew that they were going to collapse. I pretty much started mourning them, that day.

I tell ya’, as much as I love Moviepass, it might be worth it for it to end just so I never ever have to hear some scholar tell me exactly what is wrong with Moviepass’ business model.

Sure, there are many of the same tropes but many of them get subverted (C3Po is actually a robot built by a small child, the war isn’t good vs. evil but merely pawns unknowningly manipulated, the Jedi are gullible and ineffectual, the love story is doomed, etc) in far more radical ways than what Rian Johnson gets…

I agree that Star Wars has become inert but I disagree that all of them are the same. One of the things that the new Star Wars films made me realize was that, for all the myriad problems with the prequels, George Lucas was trying to do something different. Sure, there were light sabers in it, but he was throwing…

Though I could see a case that Frasier is a case where people like the show but don’t like the actor. Kelsey Grammar is somehow an unlikable pompous buffoon who plays likable pompous buffoons.

I don’t know but this, in no way feels like “gaslighting”. It feels like “spin”, sure, but not like gaslighting and I feel uncomfortable throwing suching a weighted term around on something so trivial as a media company’s PR.

I love Event Horizon but it’s the closest thing that I have to a “guilty pleasure”, not because I’m guilty about loving it but because I know that it isn’t “good”, it just works for me.