I think a lot of people are misplacing their outrage by checking individual movies for these criteria. I don't understand why anyone would have an issue with no people of color in a movie about a jewish summer camp, just like no feminists are furious that there are no women in The Thing.
Half of all Americans are…

Don't pretend that wouldn't be your favorite talk show

Props for the period-appropriate joke format!

Interesting, maybe not. But I had low expectations and thought she was game and cute. The main guest is only the focal point for about four minutes of the episode, so unless they actively take away from the other performers' energies (Schoolboy Q), I really don't mind.

According to Quentin Tarantino, the exact same lenses.

Eddie Redmayne certainly isn't either, though. Amanda Seyfried is a movie star, and had exclusively played leading roles for several years leading up to Les Mis. Eddie Redmayne was a young british actor who had never made a studio film.

Kayla pretty outright accuses Les Mis, but isn't it obviously In Time and Justin Timberlake?

July 30

The Dissolve was my favorite site for film criticism. They've published a lot of great articles even this past month. I knew they weren't overwhelmingly popular - they launched with a bunch of flashy features that they got rid of over time in an apparent cost cutting measure - but this is too darned sudden.

Were people aware that The Dissolve was shutting down? I thought it was a strange decision to close up shop on a Wednesday in July.

Yes

Speakeasy might be my favorite of PFT's (five?) current shows. I love the aesthetic of it. Best interview show online.

Judd Apatow's movies as solo writer/director are very similar, and feel like extensions of each other, each longer and with a thinner layer of fiction than the last. His work as producer, though, is more varied than he gets credit for (most "team Apatow movies" since 2008 haven't involved him), and he's written lots…

It's not. It's actually pretty laugh-out-loud funny; increasingly so, over the course of the trilogy. Roy Andersson is best known in Scandinavia as a really prolific director of ads, and he's great at that kind of character comedy. And his stuff is visually spectacular, of course. But being placed in front of it with…

At least it had a brilliant tag.

Erin's marrying Garrett? I've only heard she's playing the fiance of an asshole, so I assumed Jeff or Elroy.

They weren't allowed to shoot outside (except right outside the studio entrance) for seasons 3-5, and the lighting and coverage have often been weak. Season 4 was absolutely the low point, in part because they didn't write with budget in mind. I remember a mansion, a convention hall and a mall being particularly…

"Many of them with a clearly pinched production budget compared to the NBC days"
Joshua Alston keeps mentioning this, but it's simply not true. The budget, at least below the line, has been increased. Last week's episode had fifteen minutes of really well-done greenscreen work and several exterior scenes. The show…

Why? She's hilarious!

I'm sorry, but I love famous people doing dumb shit. I'd watch it three hours a day. Famous people are professionally charming, and I'm especially amused when there are several of them together in one place, or when they do things that children would do.