I’ve decided I'm too old for Taylor Swift and she just doesn't speak to me and my experience of the world as a late 30s millennial filled with climate anxiety and vague sadness. And these weird gimmicks for the fans and against the critics don't exactly draw me in (which is fine I guess?). What are my fellow non…

As with when the Super Mario movie came out, it’s all about whether people can bring their kids out. My family is four tickets alone, whereas with Dune it would either be me or my spouse or a ridiculous amount in babysitting costs for us to see a very long movie together (and still just two of us, not all four). It…

It might just not be your thing, which is fine. I’m older than her target demographic but like her music a lot. Probably more than my kids do.

I never watch the videos here but was curious about this one. Do they always have an ad every five seconds or am I just lucky?

That’s a fair take too. I think the real story here is the sensationalistic approach of the writer, especially in drawing so much attention to someone trying to avoid COVID. It makes incredible sense for actors to avoid COVID. They still to this day have some of the strictest protocols (in theatre, anyway). So it…

I actually can read French somewhat decently so I read the original article. Given the context of COVID and how they wanted to, you know, collaborate with him, I'm with Jake Gyllenhaal on this one. I'm sure he did some weird creative actory stuff but hey... actors. Bidegain is the one who comes off as a pretentious…

In other news, I quite like the new album. I take particular delight in anything that mocks Elon Musk (which, given the Green-Day-side-project The Network song Hey Elon, I assume they’re doing with the line “bankrupt the planet for assholes in space”) so I’m having a good time. Not the most cutting thing in the world…

Fair. I guess I thought they were at least still pretending to be dignified.

The question I have is how the New York Times editors read the piece and thought yeah sure let’s publish.

I’m not particularly a Swift fan (to put mildly and politely) but somehow found myself reading that NYTimes piece. It was horrifying and said way more about toxic fanbases than Swift herself. I also noted that it was the same writer who accused Harry Styles of queerbaiting. I can’t believe it was given that level of…

My aunt has apparently never seen a single MCU thing somehow, went to the Marvels with my mom, and loved it. This made me realize that the interconnectivity concerns are overblown in general. Yeah I'm sure lots went over both of their heads (it was afterall a sequel that they hadn't seen the original of) but sometimes…

Let’s not forget this, either. A nice inversion of Loki’s first appearance in the comics.

I’ll add that I buy physical when I care about sound quality / actually hearing dialogue.

My takeaway is that there's just not enough family friendly stuff at the theatres these days, so when something like Paw Patrol comes out, people jump on it. Then again, I guess not everyone is as into going to movies as I am, and streaming is killing family movie outings.

I think I might be one of the only weirdos out there who likes POP. I don’t even know that I think it’s “good”, but it’s odd and different.

It wasn't a funny meme if you were a teenage girl at the time. It was very disturbing.

Regarding her mother, though, it never failed to amuse me how much she obviously loathed Musk. She's some kind of journalist now with a fairly progressive bent, so I can only imagine the conversations around the dinner table.

I’m a fan of Auli’i Cravalho. She seems like a good person, so far as is possible to tell from afar. I hope defensive vacationers don’t take things out on her or Momoa. He seems to have more star power than she does and thus better insulation from entitled dipshits. Anyway I did donate to one of the places I found…

Oh yeah that would be a whole different thing. ALTHOUGH I lived in Verdun back in the day and still can't believe it's become a bougie paradise, so maybe NDG used to be rougher before my Montreal days and underwent a similar change.

Verrrrry interesting. I'm going to do some light critical reading on this. Thanks for sharing. I didn't realize that even in the 70s someone was like hey this is very bad and racist and maybe we should do something about it. Sheds some interesting light on the current kerfuffle over the revisions they've done to his…