ugh. FINE. I’ll just go get some.

Oh, thank goodness. Chocolate and peanut butter is a good combo, but Reese’s has terrible peanut butter and terrible, over-sweetened milk chocolate.

I miss the midnight releases of the books. Always a good time.

The link to Dawn Ennis’ piece points to the article about Daniel Radcliffe’s response.

ETA: Link here

The cherry on top is he STILL gets served literal rocks

During the quarantine, my wife and I have taken to watching every Best Picture nominee (the ones neither of us have seen yet), going back in time. We were in 1988 a couple weeks ago and both watched this for the first time. Removed from the context of when it came out, it’s pleasant but doesn’t leave much of an…

Cruise’s best performance, for my money. He takes a terrible human being and takes him on a believable journey of growth without excusing or glamorizing his flaws. Charlie is an asshole but, like all assholes, is as complex and human as he is awful. I disagree a bit with this review in terms of the problems with…

OK, I clicked the link. It’s not *quite* as bad in context... here is the full quotation:

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of my favorite movies. Don’t forget the strong racial elements of the film. Toontown stands in for not just artistic communities, but the many minority communities that were demolished to make way for the mid-century car-centric transformation of our cities. This happened in Los Angeles…

That Ebert quote, though; holy fuck. 

I think Charley initially warms to Raymond because of what he can do for him (make money), those talents also help him to see that Raymond is a multidimensional, fully formed, person and not juts a “retard” he can use. Learning about the singing helps with that development too.

The best part of Rain Man, for me, was popularizing that Belle Stars’ cover of Iko Iko. That song is still such a jam.

“Rain Man has the confidence to stay small, to focus.”

Putting aside the book I could write about this film’s portrayal of autism, a linguistic note: we usually prefer to be referred to as “autistic,” rather than people “with autism.” https://autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/identity-first-language/ Since it comes up quite a few times in this piece, I request that it be…

“That kid gets no tip.”

This will always be the greatest thing Barry Levinson ever did.

Man, there were some good movies in 1988.

I’ve heard worse ideas, but why would you think he could provide it?

Levinson pulls some plot jiu jitsu to keep Hoffman and Cruise off of superhighways

What the fuck is up with the slide shows?