what a fucking bummer.

What a strange girl you are. Flung out of space.

Hell yes to We Are Lady Parts and Los Espookys! Very different but equally delightful.

Truly one of the best movies of all time. I had no idea it was so widely panned initially. 

also, there’s no rabies in NZ or Australia where these possums come from. 

I was wondering about that too. “Taken to a nature reserve” seems like the NZ version of being taken to the farm. 

Love seeing everyone’s wildly different opinions, and weirdly I sort of agree with all of them. Moonrise Kingdom will always be #1 for me, with the Royal Tenenbaums close second, because there’s a devastating emotional acuity in those movies that levels me every time. That quality has been absent for me in his last…

Possessor fucking rules but that face just conjures the most visceral sense of unease in me. I spent the whole movie dreading its inevitable appearance. Then it finally showed up and ugh, that crunch. Unsettling to the point of nausea. 

The mother pulling such disturbing faces they have to lock her in the attic...that part still scares the absolute shit out of me. It’s such a horrifying concept, left completely undescribed so your brain can do all the heavy lifting. The best/worst kind of horror writing.

It’s interesting you mention that, because I did get frustrated towards the end of Conversations when it felt like the characters were just avoiding talking to each other for no reason. The newest novel avoids that sense of manufactured tension for the most part, and I think it achieves a real emotional honesty, but…

Patricia Field is a genius, but she really did Miranda dirty in the early seasons. So much frump. 

Not exactly - I find her musings on class, gender, etc to generally be insightful and well-written* - but I do think that she is a genuinely great romance writer, mainly because of the strength of her characterisation. Not many writers can create such grounded, realistic relationships that are still narratively…

Literally the only Austen adaptation that understands that it’s satire! The updated time setting definitely helps, but every part of that movie is genius.

I always hated how much they had to ret-con Dean into the hugest douche just to make Jess look a little more appealing. 

Spoiler alert for the latter half of this year: the new Sally Rooney is very, very good. 

Violation deserves so much more praise as the first neo-rape revenge flick to genuinely subvert the genre, totally rejecting any notion of catharsis while still somehow maintaining a sense of conviction. Also the reviews on shudder are hilarious - did not realise so many dudes get upset by full frontal male nudity.

The lack of sex in the MCU is so weird and interesting. I read a great essay about the demise of sex scenes in movies which I can’t find now, but it’s fascinating that now everyone in these huge blockbusters is like, inhumanly shredded and hot, they’re stripped of any real chemistry or sex appeal, and anything…

Not sure if it was just an internet rumour, but when I heard John Boyega was originally considered for the part I wept for what could have been.

I’ve been watching a lot of DDD lately, usually in half-asleep stoned stupor, and what I don’t get is how the food network makes any money when it only shows commercials for its own shows. What is the economic situation in Flavourtown? 

Ugh, the Mulaney story just gets more and more depressing. Evangelical church? Yikes.