But you’re eliminating the glamour awards and replacing them with the “awarded yesterday at the non-televised technical awards ceremony...” kind of level. Plus, sometimes acting awards shine a light on lesser-known movies, and if you’re eliminating 10 nominations you’re also taking away publicity for a handful of…

The BFI in London had a Powell and Pressburger season last year which had a whole bunch of rare screenings and special events. I only went once as money was tight, but it was a real pleasure seeing Gone to Earth on the big screen. It also inspired me to check out the films I hadn’t seen of theirs and The Small Back…

Thanks for this piece. I don’t often get to humblebrag: my first published article is on Powell and Pressburger’s  The Red Shoes. Scorcese calls these works “pure film”. There is so, so very much more. If Scorcese’s first exposure to the film was in black and white, seeing TRS in Technicolor must have been euphoric.

ALF was by all accounts absolute hell to film, with the sets being a maze of dangerous trapdoors for the puppeteers, and just about all the actors hating each other. You’d never know it from his performance, which hit the perfect ET-lite note throughout the whole show. And good for him getting out of the business…

I’ll believe her when I (don’t) see her.  I feel like very few celebrities who announce they’re quitting actually follow through.  The ones who quit just... you know, quit and fade away.

I mean, if she’s tired of hearing people say bad things about her (no matter how justified they may be), she’s 66 and has “fuck you” money. So why not just go be a regular, old, retiree?

Years of swimming,plus the inseam of a 6 year old means I look like a chimp playing dress up when I wear dress clothes. The trick is just minimizing the damage, not whatever this is.

It’s the dress that should be ashamed.

I was going to come in and snark about body shaming, and then I really looked at that tablecloth dress and wondered... that sure is something.

Yeah she chose this out of many options and was like “this, this is the one.” And that is confusing to me. She’s wanting to make some sort of statement for sure, and I honestly I’m not even hating on the fact that it’s transparent because thin celebrities do the transparent thing all the time. But this particular…

Hey, *you’re* the one that took the name of that dress pattern for your avatar name, pal...

Lena Dunham has talent as a writer, but some sort of negative talent when it comes to clothing. There are people who look bad in their clothing because they clearly don’t care enough to put more thought into what they wear than just grabbing some stuff that vaguely fits and then going with it. But Dunham very clearly…

Can I please say “never use that picture again” without it being considered body shaming?

Literally at this moment I noticed it was transparent. I’ll be gosh-darned.

man whoever picked that header image sure must hate lena dunham 

Home Alone 2: Lost In New York. It’s beat-for-beat the exact same story as the first movie, except now it’s in New York.

There’s nothing about “a good crop” in the story “The Lottery.” There is no reason for the ritual given, which is part of why it’s so horrifying. All we hear about the imminent lottery is that other towns seem to be giving it up, which the villagers think is very unwise.

i am so completely over john cena’s comedy schtick. and awkwafina’s while we’re at it!

I realize this is missing the point of the joke, but “The Lottery” was a short story only a few pages long. It always annoyed me to see this scene because it makes it look like it was a whole novel that would be an entire book.

They then did an elaborate snap, turned around, and immediately punched their assistant in the face.