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the lies of minnelli
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They probably don't want to blow their cover.

Bridge of Spies tried to do the playing both sides thing but ended up being so cloyingly sentimental on the US side of things that it felt really heavy handed. Kaminski using god rays and soft lighting for the West and then a post-apocalyptic harshness in the East Berlin sequences made a pretty clear statement which

Is there any American filmmaker more openly atheist, or at least disbelievingly agnostic, than Eastwood? Besides for the bleak tone of his work, there's a lot of key scenes like him hassling priests in Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino; the use of religious iconography in Dirty Harry to convey that no higher power

The old white guy will save the day by getting himself killed and fully aware that the police, and society at large, will only give a shit because he's an old white guy who was shot dead while unarmed by a minority gang. It isn't exactly High Noon.

In regards to American Sniper, people tend to forget that (a) it was initially going to be made by Stephen Spielberg, who proved with Bridge of Spies that he's the actual tone deaf patriot people say Clint is, and (b) Eastwood has never met a first draft script he didn't like. I don't want to dumb it down but I feel

Does it actually? I remember this being the premise of Force Majeure and besides for the clumsily put together scene of the guys accidentally getting hit on (which, when trying to unpack, came across as more damning for the female ego than the male one) didn't seem like much of an exploration of anybody's particular

"Sci-fi for people who Fucking Love Science."

Only if you do it with your pinky out.

I wonder if sharing a name with a certain Orange Juice "O.J." Simpson has anything to do with it. Do you want to drink something named after a killer?

The ugly one on the left is his.

Thankfully, GRRM made his books very simple to read.

The only way we'll see a new book is when Brandon Sanderson finishes it after GRRM dies.

They had no problem wasting someone of Stephen Dillane's calibre on a story that went almost literally and figuratively nowhere so bussing in Jim Broadbent for an episode wouldn't be so bad.

Good Job, Open Tabs I'm Browsing At Work!

Looks nice but very boring. Like father, like son.

Those hashtags are really nice and I hope someone somewhere is actively searching for lovelypet on Instagram.

I'm not sure what's dumber. Claiming Snyder doesn't understand what he's doing or that Chris Nolan is an artist and a serious filmmaker.

I like the implication in all of this that Batman and Superman are on par with literature, classic or otherwise.