They cast a young ape needing guidance in the ways of punching out bikers, and the ghost of Harambe appears, guiding him as a kind of simian Obi Wan.

I tried to watch Blackhat a few weeks ago and I could immediately tell it was cropped. Why would the studio matter, unless they were cropping themselves before providing to HBO, which makes no sense…

A Ghost Story sounds fantastic. I was similarly lukewarm on his debut, but loved Pete's Dragon.

Yeah, the more you read about Welles, the more you realize that he played a major role in his own scattered career. He was not shy about biting the hand that fed him, and despite how resourceful he could be on set, did not appear to have a good handle on the financial side of the business.

The title is a little click-baity, but the article itself is not.

This was maybe the only time I was genuinely happy to not be able to find a parking space downtown. I finally found one and walked a good 20 minutes to the march, but driving around feeling inspired instead of frustrated was a wonderful feeling.

The tone of that scene definitely has a mansplaining vibe.

I was genuinely surprised when they did not pull their phones out while watching Rebel Without a Cause.

That personally didn't bother me. I was sort of charmed by their awkwardness, and I think their genuine chemistry is worth the trade-off.

What New Yorker piece? Was that in Richard Brody's thing? I don't remember him complaining about that scene but he definitely nailed the issues I had with the direction.

They are genuinely insufferable characters, well-played by two talented actors who deserved better.

I have this issue with The Projection Booth. That's one of the few movie podcasts that gets people from the movies to talk about them, but I can barely get through an episode because half the people on it seem to be calling in from Mars.

I had forgotten all about that movie. Branagh can definitely get carried away as a director.

I could not stop laughing during the scene where he mansplains jazz to her DURING the performance, sitting mere feet away from the stage.

She's lovely, and great in the movie. As is Gosling.

I respect this decision.

No, that was the point of his last movie, and applying the same style of direction to this one did not work for me at all.

What about those of us who didn't care for it much at all, who found it aggressively over-directed and show-offy?

Connor Does Not Take This Shit

I love dogs but jesus christ those things are just domesticated land sharks.