Can’t believe it took me this long to say it but: what a hack. First and foremost, adaptation is inherently an act of change; changing the medium of the story doesn’t just involve changing the shape of a story, it demands it. You’re a lot more likely to dash yourself against the rocks hewing too faithfully to the…

ah, ha ha ha, what a story, shark!

i did not hit her that’s not true it’s bullshit i did not hit her i did naht

Dreyf’d up for Leyf!

i want to see the one about grandpa Joe who, having pushed Charlie out of his ownership of the factory (some conservatorship mumbo jumbo; it gets real ugly in the court room), reckons with the loneliness he’s wrought upon himself in the search for solitude, Daniel Plainview style.

It’s very chicken-egg to me, in the sense that the Black Keys are known and long-lived enough that you could fill an arena off $30 tickets, but not $200 ones.

...hmmm if only there was something currently happening within the Justice Department that was pertinent to the question posed by this article.

(Rabid being his third feature, for the illiterates in the greys and editorial pool)

For those expecting a full-on return to the radical messiness of Rabid, the pulp perfection of The Fly, the raunchy seduction of Crash, or even the sordid yet sublime character studies like History Of Violence and Eastern Promises, they may be disappointed. His last film, Crimes Of The Future, was a return to his…

No love for the Dreyfus Affair smdh

I don’t know what makes it this way for me (probably just habit now) but The Bear is one show I like as a full-season drop. I know I’ll get through it, but I’ll do it at my own pace. It’s bingeable, but sometimes the emotional heft makes small, spaced-out bites nice. And because it’s so good it remains in the…

That doc was full of similar touches where Spurlock was not just going after McDonalds for its food, he was making huge assumptions about the people who ate there, without interrogating why cheap, high-calorie food would appeal to a certain economic bracket.

It Takes a Lot to Laugh, it Takes a Train to DIE: A Knives Out Mystery

Who (Nurse) Jackie?

talk about stigma lol

apparently lots of guys trying to get on the show are claiming they were rejected for being “too nice” while “only macho assholes” got cast, according to their very patient (but very tired) friends.

“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”

Isn’t there a famous gif of Anakin and Obi-Wan swinging their lightsabers around furiously and hitting nothing?

I’m seein’ double: six Elvi!

i see disney is taking the home-improvement “turn it off then back on again” approach to fixing superhero fatigue.