It’s not exactly the height of substantive cinematic analysis, but every time I see Keira Knightley I’m struck by the fact that she might have the most luminescent smile I’ve ever seen. 

I was a little skeptical of this, mainly because I’ve already read the stories and books and watched the documentaries, but that’s a great damn trailer. Seyfried looks amazing and it’s a really top-notch cast around her (though what’s up with William H. Macy’s forehead). I think I’m in. 

Ah, Emma Mackey, currently sitting second in the Margot Robbie Line of Succession. If anything happens to Samara Weaving (god forbid), Mackey will be just one heartbeat away from the top spot. 

I think it was Robert Pattinson who observed that actors only seem to “go method” to play jerks. No one does a deep dive into the psyche of a nice person and just goes around being charitable and treating everyone super kindly. 

It feels like the right play here is to keep your head down, enjoy your expensive home in Santa Monica, wait for the culture to be distracted by other things over the next year or two, then try and find something relatively low-profile once the temperature has been lowered a bit. Americans are capable of moving on…

I remember hearing somewhere that Bill Clinton’s famous thumb gesture during his speeches was a deliberate attempt to point without actually pointing, for that exact reason.

Isn’t the penguin shuffle actually the officially approved and recommended method for navigating icy sidewalks?

They deserve a lot of credit in particular for how they handled Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which drew truly horrific ratings and still got a full four-season run. I vaguely remember our old friend Emily VanDerWerff saying that after its second season, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was the lowest rated show in the history of television…

Scarlett Johansson will have to settle for a role in one of those Shen Yun shows.

Out of curiosity, how familiar do you have to be with the Karate Kid movies for this show to make sense? I’ve never seen any of the movies, but I have a basic level of pop culture osmosis (New Jersey dork becomes karate master, douchebag evil karate guys, “sweep the leg,” Johnny winning the big match with the weird…

At some point I want a show to just go all-in on romantic melodrama and put the main character at the center of a 23-point love traffic jam.

She looks like a Tamara de Lempicka painting come alive at certain points during the trailer, which feels appropriate.

I was really impressed with the movie overall. Normally a movie with that sort of conceit (claustrophobic setting, small cast of main characters, inter-personal drama, tons of dialogue) is shot in a really inert way, just a bunch of static long takes of people talking, but it was a really intense, kinetic movie, with…

Tina: And I just want to confirm that the audience hasn’t heard any of these jokes before.

I would absolutely watch a movie about Belichick and the Patriots’ dynasty that had all the cadences and beats of a standard rousing sports movie, but all the big story moments are just Belichick and the franchise gloriously embracing ruthless amorality.

It’s pretty funny to think that Greta Gerwig nearly ended up starring on a CBS sitcom, and it was CBS that said no.

Though some on social media were doubtful that Seyfried looked enough like Holmes to be a viable replacement

December 17 is a hell of a movie day, huh?

Feels like a missed opportunity to rope Gerard Butler into this franchise.

Yeah, that’s one of the dynamics the show doesn’t really make obvious or draw attention to, but it is pretty interesting how rarely Logan seems to do or say anything particularly brilliant or cunning. I mean, even at the time he said it I thought that “Hans Christian Anderfuck” was a line that more had the cadence of…