With all due respect to Anna Cathcart, Kitty is the worst part of these movies. Maybe a more grown-up version of the character would be less cloying and forced, but as it stands, I’m gonna pass.

I love Rick and Morty, but I’m glad the hype died down for it in season four. Hopefully, it can just be a good, funny show again, instead of a cultural lightning rod. 

I finished the whole thing, but it’s one of my least favorite films of its year. It is one of the flattest major documentaries in recent memory. 

Saw this at Sundance. Not a fan of how fractured it is, and am lost by the movie in the last third.

For survivors’ sake, I’m glad that Middleditch is being outed more openly. He’s been a known creep for years at this point.

Dan Schneider is a fascinating figure whose influence on youth television has yet to be fully unraveled, much like the extent of what an asshole he is. 

Yeah, this isn’t being talked about enough. Transphobia is championed by British progressives, and it’s a trend that’s emerged more prominently in the last few years that Rowling amplified, but is far from an isolated point of view. 

This is a great video essay—Lindsay Ellis is brilliant—but it doesn’t totally address the Rowling of it all. In the U.S., transphobia is becoming increasingly intolerable--at least among the left. In Britain, though, transphobia has become part of their progressive platform. It’s a legitimate phenomenon that I think go…

I saw this at Sundance in 2020, and I liked it well enough. Personally, I think it’s Cumberbatch’s best performance. But yeah. It doesn’t have much else going for it beyond that—hell, this is a movie that has the gall to waste Jessie Buckley. Weirdly, I found the last act—which has the least going on—to be the most…

Margaret is such a masterpiece. Every element is a masterclass. The performances, the flow, the look of it, the rhythm, the sound. Everything. It’s not a flashy film; but every moment is compelling and wrenching. No one fills in the blanks of human life on screen better than Kenneth Lonergan.

Great interview.

As someone who was born as the show was wrapping up, I love The Wonder Years. It’s one of my favorite shows. I’m very curious how a reboot will work. What makes that show so special is how dark it can be. There are plenty of winning, heartfelt episodes, but there are just as many that end in a sort of failure of…

Well, the Kids Choice Awards, like all awards shows in their infancy, used to be weird. Previous nominees include Boyz n the Hood, Speed, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps, and so on. This is the show that gave Ave Ventura: When Nature Calls Favorite Movie over Toy Story, for…

He’s my pick for Best Supporting Actor in 2018 for Game Night, a year with no shortage of career-best performances in supporting turns.

Great article, minus the fact that it’s Like Mike erasure, which he’s great in.

The only thing that kind of works for me in this episode is that final goodbye. It’s obviously not a goodbye between Wanda and Vision—after all, Cataract is out there, and is ostensibly Vision according to the episode. It’s a goodbye to the life Wanda can never have. She can’t have a normal life, or a normal nuclear…

What’s this? Reid McCarter has just won a Pulitzer for Journalism? Wow!! Congratulations, buddy!

Remember when Pusha T did those diss tracks about Drake? Those look like dog shit next to this masterpiece of venom and fire.

I think the lowbrow movies that Scorsese loves is kind of the opposite of what he’s talking about when referring to contemporary blockbusters. For one, Mario Bava movies aren’t engineered to nearly the degree that an MCU movie is, where Kevin Feige will make entire chunks of the movie without the control of the…

No matter who wins... we lose, given that we, as a society, are as well-equipped to fend off space invaders as we are when it comes to believing and supporting victims of sexual violence.