Oh, have you not seen that one? Yeah, if not, Cavill’s great in it. It’s kinda queasy knowing what we do about Armie Hammer now, but you know, separate the art from the artist, etc. Would still recommend.

the av club turned into a cesspool of angry, pseoudliterate dorks so immediately literally everyone noticed it happening

I don’t see how a comment about what “most people” are doing can be ableist. It is perfectly reasonable for a person to continue to mask — I do on public transportation. And some people (like Hader) have particularly good reasons to want to mask, and we should respect that. But most people have assessed the risks…

There’s a rich lineage of beloved TV characters that, if you were in a room with them IRL, would make you tear out your own eyes just for something to plug your ears with.

Agreed on the Elrond thing. And I didn’t even see it as an intentional slight. It seemed like it didn’t really occur to him that he was being neglectful because elves are immortal so for them it’s no big deal to go 50 years or more between meetings. When Durin told him he’d lived a whole life between seeing him last…

In all seriousness, the “communal experience” of film is overrated.

“In all seriousness, the “communal experience” of film is overrated”

That just stresses how wrong those orders are. Leia committed to sending one fighter as a distraction for a bombing run. The mission was a major success, a handful of bombers and one fighter took out a huge capital ship. The bombers weren’t well defended and were getting ripped apart by TIEs anyhow, if Poe had…

It’s imperfect, but by FAR the best of the Sequel Trilogy. It was unexpected, beautiful, frustrating, thrilling, and, you know, we’re still talking about it. When was the last time anyone mentioned Rise of the Skywalker or whatever the fuck?

Maybe not ubiquitous, but if you were a D&D playing teenager in the 80s, you knew all the words to Existential Blues by heart.

The trailer first introduces us to a misunderstood child Al

I don’t entirely disagree, but I think it’s important to note that pretty much the entire back half of season 2 outside of the finale was done without Lynch’s involvement, and the events of said finale still amount to “Cooper enters hell, faces off with the show’s primary demon, loses, and is possessed like Leland…

I would argue that the shift happens over the course of Twin Peaks, and particularly in the finale. In the first season, there are dreams and hints of supernatural elements, but it can pretty easily be fitted into a rational framework. So, the Black Lodge is “merely” a dream Agent Cooper has, for example, while BOB…

Or the initial disappointment of getting a prequel after a cliffhanger conclusion as the final word in the series has faded after 30 years and a genuine follow-up series, while Lynch’s later movies prepared people better for his stylistic choices here than the Twin Peaks series had.

It’s the scariest horror film I’ve ever seen. When Laura walked into the picture on her wall I was digging my nails in the cinema seat. When her father and the one-armed man argue in the car, my stress levels were through the roof. I loved it from its initial release. The scene in the club where you can’t hear what…

“We sure could use a pick-me-up, couldn’t we Agent Desmond?”

It’s crazy how you're looking down your nose at people for liking a director you don't like and have the audacity to call them pretentious. 

I swear, there’s a scene where Kiefer Sutherland had to repeat his line because Chris Isaak didn’t catch his cue the first time, and Lynch just left the whole thing in.

Getting older I’m really glad I have to look up how to spell some Star Wars characters names now and then. 

Dany for the whole of the series...