How many actors look at the movies they are in? I have always read or saw interviews where some actors say they don’t look at their movies.

Maybe I missed something, I don’t really agree that the Fleabag ending was a cliffhanger. It seemed pretty cut and dried to me, in a way that would mean another season would feel forced.

I don’t understand why people keep making this argument as if the only option for watching streaming services is on a phone. 

I’m not going to watch this on my phone. I’m going to watch it on my 4k widescreen, thanks very much.

(some spoilers two weeks after it came out)

Some people, albeit the % of dog owners is small, do use their dogs for the purpose the breeds were intentionally created for. Seeing a bird do perform the duties it was bred to do is actually really fascinating. 

Dog breeds are a purely human invention, in the first place. Dogs will mate with other dogs, they don’t stick to their breed on their own. A mutt is a much more “natural” dog than a purebred anything.

I don’t get the outrage about “designer dogs” - this is how tons of dog breeds were created in the first place. If anything they should be healthier thanks to hybrid vigor; the idea that mixing somehow introduces disease or makes dogs crazy is some weird kind of racism.

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The CBB podcast is also one of my favorite things ever, and- even though I hate to admit it- I agree with you about Scott Aukerman’s other stuff. I do like the CBB TV show, but yeah this movie wasn’t great... I actually have that feeling even more strongly about Paul F Tompkins. The things he does on CBB can make me…

The snark kind of seems mean spirited, but The Last Airbender did really suck huge balls so it kind of balances out.

“What’s with all the animated characters in this animated show?? >:( Grrrr!”

...cause it’s an animated show.

Because the whole structure of the show demands that it’s animated, at least unless they had a budget of a couple of hundred million dollars.

Gee, your right. It’s not like Amazon Prime has any other great originals like The Boys or Homecoming. It’s also not like they have one of the better exclusive lineups with Mr. Robot, Justified, The Americans and Psych; and it’s cheaper than netflix. It’s also not like they have an option to help deliveries and music…

Exactly. One of the problems with film talk is that it tends to be didactic. Either a review which needs to build a simple clear message on quality with a star rating, or one of those “why this is a masterpiece” takes.

Oh, wow. Something I never knew I needed but NEEDED SO MUCH.

I was excited for Unspooled when it debuted and stuck with it for quite a while, despite increasing misgivings. When Nicholson insisted that one of the main reasons so many critics like Apocalypse Now so much is because Francis Ford Coppola is a “white male” (and doubled down on it on a subsequent episode after…

I think I like what you don’t like about it. I enjoy the wishy washy give and take, the mix of legit critical insights with impulsive takeaways because that’s in general how people, including critics, process art. I think it’s totally fine to mentally cycle through several contradictory views before arriving at a…

i like nicholson to an extent (i find her a little long winded on her own podcasts, but usually sharp with her commentary), but unspooled is horrible and its due to her. she can’t decided if her issues with the films are because of the films, or because she knows about the people and circumstances of the making of the…