I didn’t think it was that bad. I think that if the direction and overall tone had been more textured, it could have been a neat, stylized modern noir. They were trying to make a point that the dialogue was deliberately pulpy, but the direction was off the mark.

I’m a big defender of Lea Michele too. They have some traits that seem to be bred into theater kids, but all it really means is that they practice hard and show up 15 minutes early.

I remember how during the early phase of the Les Mis press, she was using Fantine’s arc as a way to talk about sex trafficking and poverty. After that she was only ever asked about Oscar stuff, and to be fair, I completely understand why someone with her temperament would be a nervous wreck leading up to the Oscars.

For some reason people get really mad when entertainers admit to wanting to be successful. Anne’s the Monica Geller of Hollywood.

I think this is where I sit with it. The tone of the film really bothers me. If the message was, “yeah, this guy’s a scumbag, but what happened to him wasn’t right,” I’d be on board. As things stand, the current direction of the conversation makes me want to be a contrarian.

Is Brendan even competent to stand trial?

If you click through to the source, you’ll see that she was reprimanded before for giving away cookies, which isn’t quite in line with her bleeding heart “but the children are starving!” rhetoric. Methinks she would just let the kids take whatever they wanted and they had to get rid of her when she started giving…

It’s to show other kids that they can’t just walk through the lunch line and fill their trays when they know they can’t pay, especially since they also know that there is free food available to them.

She had done it multiple times for kids whose accounts were irrelevant; she had previously been reprimanded for giving out cookies for free. I don’t want to appear to be reaching, but it sort of seems like she was in the habit of just letting kids take stuff they wanted, and it just so happens that she was caught when…

This cafeteria worker had already been disciplined for giving away free snacks, ie non-essential food items. It makes sense that the school didn’t want kids to figure out that they could stack their trays with cookies or extra pizza or regularly go through the hot lunch line for free when Bowden was the one at the…

I’m always a tad suspicious of stories like this; the last time a “fired lunch lady” took to the internet to tell her story, it turned out that there had been other disciplinary issues and she deserved to be fired anyway for other reasons.

TV-only people have seen a death scene, and Jamie and Claire are heading for France (and Claire has chosen Jamie over Frank). It doesn’t strike me as spoilery to indicate that neither Frank nor Jack have longevity in the story.

it’s interesting to me that people jump to debate the abortion and parentage issues but aren’t considering the reasons people choose IVF in the first place. These are couples that can’t conceive without medical intervention, and they’ve spent thousands of dollars on this procedure, possibly after a few other…

I’ll reiterate what a commenter in the previous review pointed out, which is that this movie seems to be based on Lysistrata. Is it a well-done update? Not sure, as I haven’t seen it yet. Does the subject matter warrant the Clueless/10 Things treatments? Again, not sure, but probably not.....but also, this film is…

Hmmm, I remember the controversy over Jen’s AH casting and I never understood it: the character was supposed to be young, and it was written with Jen in mind. It was an issue with the overall writing that she didn’t always jibe with the rest of the cast, which is what gave off the impression that she was miscast.…

It looks like the Globes are trying to make a point about “genre” stuff. People who pay attention to these things have been assuming that shows like Outlander and Penny Dreadful would never get any noms because of their genres and because they’re so fussy (in that old-fashioned way) and female-oriented. Rami Malek is…

The music categories can be a bit rough. There are weird rules about how the song can’t have appeared anywhere else before, even as a b-side or with a different instrumental arrangement. A lot of movies have “signature” songs that aren’t eligible because they weren’t written just for the film.

I fucking love him. It’s LOL that he was in the last Twilight movie as a vampire with Alex Mack powers. So fucking cute. He’s a puppy.

I think Sam didn’t start out very strong - he essentially had the “hot girlfriend” role for a long time. There’s something in his delivery that’s missing sometimes, and it’s glaring when he’s in a heavy scene with Caitriona and Tobias. Male drama actor is a stuffed category this year though, and Jon Hamm is going to…

I think that the Jessica Jones crew didn’t bother campaigning. I get the impression that the budget wasn’t huge and that the cast/crew were honestly surprised by how well-received it was. I follow Krysten on Instagram, and she’s still focusing on getting people to watch it. I don’t think it ever occurred to her to dig…