"You want to orally pleasure each other one last time?"
"[little girl voice] Sure! You can go down on me, daddy!"
"Okay, I'm done."

Still really proud of this piece I wrote after the third season, if anyone's interested in looking back on the show as it used to be: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/…

My thing with Mendoza - having not seen any of his films either - is just that I find it amusing that a director with three competition entries at Cannes and two in Venice could be so kind of…anonymous in terms of contemporary directors with Cannes pedigree. I guess he's the male Kawase?

He doesn't really require any defence, I just enjoy the bitchiness of that line.

My favourite Brillante Mendoza fact is that Roger Ebert wrote this about Kinatay: "Here is a film that forces me to apologize to Vincent Gallo for calling The Brown Bunny the worst film in the history of the Cannes Film Festival."

Their publicists must be Climbing Up the Walls.

Not really what I meant. Just that his style, of story-telling and aesthetic, is so aggressively masculine I'm not convinced it will easily translate to a narrative that exists outside of that. But I'm hoping to be proven wrong (as someone who really liked Drive and even tolerated Only God Forgives).

My reservation is that I don't really trust such a #masc director with what appears to very prominently be a woman's story.

She was so wonderful in Irrational Man and she looked so great in the trailer for this, and then she's been a footnote or not even mentioned in a single review. If only Woody could choose a woman over 30 to be his muse for once.

I think once the glow faded from the awards season triumph of Blanchett's performance, the movie itself stood in starker relief.

Is she though? I keep having to explain to people who she is, and even when I tell them that she won Best Actress, they still have no idea.

Yeah, I had a ton of fun with that hologram sketch. I mean, Aidy as Ethel Merman! Kate as Ginger Rogers! How could you not enjoy that?

That's the power of two Oscar nominations over a single Golden Globe nomination.

Give Up the Ghost is wonderful too.

As with all films and television programs, Game of Thrones needs more Laura Dern.

I fucking lost it at the hamster slap.

Yeah, but I'd wager if those female judges were on every single week and had to critique queens progressively, the same thing would probably happen.

I think a lot of gay men can't handle a biological woman telling gay men how to do drag.

Also: how else do you critique someone who is, frankly, crushing the competition? She's hardly wrong to tell Bob to show them something they haven't yet seen. But for some reason half of Drag Race fans seem to perceive Michelle as an Enemy of Drag which is pretty dumb.

I'm so happy Drew Droege is continuing to be part of the Belcherverse.