Man, the first half of Funny People was damn good. It’s almost like you can divide his entire career into two halves, and the dividing line is right when that movie crosses the hour mark.

Weirdly, I felt like Power of the Dog was a well-made but rather inert spin on the Western, with a “get it? THEY ARE GAY ACTUALLY” reveal that is completely predictable nowadays (certainly not back when the novel was written, I grant you). And when it ended, my sense of “that was it, huh” was fueled mostly by how…

As an editor, I can’t deny that few people watching the telecast really give a fuck about the category. They made a mistake cutting Hair and Makeup though.

It’s hard for me to get too worked up over something one could ostensibly skip, but I guess if I had to name a few:

As with a lot of moments in Don’t Look Up, it felt like they were about to do something incisive on that very idea (Ron Perlman’s super-racist hero pilot) and then just got bored/distracted/lethargic about seeing it through.

hahaha yeah it’s a shame about those 48 other perfectly agreeable republicans, they were soooooo excited about passing BBB but those two dems just shut everyone down.

According to an interview with the Safdies, they were keeping their options open as to what NBA player they would wind up casting. Whoever it was, they would have to not have aged much and three consecutive games in their Finals needed to have an arc of win-loss-win. At one point they were circling Kobe.

Pretty odd that Noem’s first instinct was to pretend to be sad, instead of just default right to “They clearly need Jesus” like all of these fucking monsters do.

This trailer didn’t get me until the end credits when they announced the titles of the two parts. Now I’m in for sure.

If they’re a TV writer, they’re rich.*

Kendrick didn’t surprise me, I’ve seen him live and his show is absolutely bananas. Made me wish he did a couple more songs, but I guess half of “Humble’s” chorus would have to be censored.

I think this show definitely worked by throwing so many artists into one 15-minute set that there was never a chance to get bored. Always a new entrance, a new hook, a new production design element. More halftime shows should be like this, give me 20 artists and they only do half a minute of their biggest song.

I assume this is going to be like the stunning, world-class vistas in Eternals; that is, a talking point from a mega-producer who’s well aware of the assembly line nature of these movies, who nonetheless will make sure each product plops off the assembly line without a single hitch or blemish.

“I’m Jennifer Lopez, and this is the ‘Break all sense of reality’.”

Libs are very quick to call these types of movies smug, as if it’s a race to get to the word before Fox News can. Like, we’re not one of those stuffy coastal film critics, we’re one of the good ones! We think it’s smug too!

It’s hard to make a snoozy “weekend box office” article entertaining, and my guess is Herb comes in and shuts the power off every hour and back on every other hour. So ya know, gotta churn it out quick.

What she did was pretty intensely cringey if you go back and listen to it! It’s okay that something not that long ago could have aged so poorly, we’ve spent the last few years locked indoors and it’s given us a chance to really hit the gas on dragging shit from the 2010s into the light.

Halfway through I started guessing which celebs would be the ones to say “No, I’m not doin’ that shit to camera.” Guessed right on Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy, guessed wrong on Ryan Gosling.

This show is so Black Mirror-adjacent to me that I’m surprised anyone walked off the set. In 10 years, I expect The Masked Singer to be the last show on television, and all their segments will be sponsored by Disney Water, Facebook Food and Amazon Oxygen.

Such a tired old hash of memespeak from like five years ago. This boring MRA vernacular sounds like the “epic bacon lolcat” shit from the late 2000s now.