‘”I miss the evenings when I could spend up to an hour browsing in the DVD rental stores. You could actually meet people; talk about movies you liked. Watching the movie was only part of the experience.”’

She was one of cable TVs pioneers, and deserves a lot more admiration for producing Faery Tale Theater, Tall Tales and Legends, and others.  Goodbye Ms. Duvall.

Faerie Tale Theatre really was SUCH a forgotten gem of a show. I was lucky enough that our family had cable, but what I remember the most was how popular the VHS releases were. Every video store (and there were many in our area) had them all and they were always out of rental copies. Eventually I settled for doing…

She had a really unique look when she was younger, even pre-Shining, in the early 70s. Gorgeous IMO. She kind of remind me of Mia Goth today.

Goodbye. She was Shelley Duvall.

There’s an insane amount of misogyny in discussions of her performance in The Shining. (Which is appropriate considering how misogynistic King’s early works are, whether or not he can admit it.) People saying things like “I was rooting for Jack” and “I wanted to kill her as well.” Like, do you say that to all battered…

She was the center of The Shining, a fantastic movie.

Dr. Phil is a monster.

I recently rewatched The Shining and it’s so strange the discourse around her in it because her performance not only isn’t bad, it’s uniquely good. It’s honestly one of the most brutally realistic depictions of a woman in an abusive relationship. It’s interesting too because throughout the movie she’s legitimately…

Damn... RIP.

It’s very telling that the billionaires perpetually enabling late stage nihilistic capitalism are all in the market for secure bunkers for inevitable full society collapse.

I’m gonna say no, Bread. Not because I have any functioning knowledge of the German language beyond what I learned from WWII movies, but because that word you just wrote is only eleven letters long which is about, like, a sixth as long as the actual word probably is. 

A culinary war crime.

Actual rural Aussie here. She made a film about deb balls? I had to google it - I’ve never heard of it.

Well she’s on his ticket, and will be next in line if he croaks. I think you should still cast your vote for him, since you would cast one for her.

Oh, absolutely! 

“If there’s not a candidate I like, all of you can burn in a fascist hell for all I care because I don’t.”

Oh gee, a mega wealthy guy that lives in a giant mansion in Italy so he can safely be removed from the consequences of a disastrous US election for four years (or realistically given Project 2025, for the rest of his dumb smug life) has some thoughts about how he’d like that election to go? Dooooo go on.

“She’s not wrong, at least from a branding perspective. Mattel currently has a full toy chest of films in the works, from an A24-type Barney movie starring Daniel Kaluuya, to J.J. Abrams’ take on Hot Wheels. Maybe someone new will also take over for Polly as well, following in the grand tradition set by Amy Schumer’s…

I was very saddened by its end, though the narrative was reasonably satisfied by that point. It COULD have continued on but I didn’t feel cheated necessarily by where it left off.