I haven’t seen the movie yet, but by the time Bella starts having sex with other people it’s established that she’s at least mentally an older teenager. Up until then, she only masturbates a lot and makes a rebuffed pass at Ramy Yousef’s character.

Love Scorsese and really want to see this in theaters, but the length with no breaks is a bit much. I’m not adverse to long movies. For example, I’ve seen Satantango twice in theaters, but there were pee breaks about every 1.5-2 hours. Also, the comparison to theater is pretty ridiculous. When Angels in America was…

Syndication isn’t worth nearly as much as it used to be now that there is streaming. That was one of the key issues in the WGA strike.

I’m just glad Megan Ganz seems to be in a much better situation with people who respect her as an artist and as a professional on It’s Always Sunny and Mythic Quest. Not for nothing she’s been credited on some of the best late season episodes of Sunny.

“A ban can’t pass” is very different than “Roe is settled law.” The Republicans in the Senate have always been pretty open about having SCOTUS do its dirty work for them on abortion. They were perfectly fine with nominating and confirming judges and justices hostile to Roe (especially because that meant those judges…

If we get to a point where the Republican senate leadership is willing to nuke the filibuster (which is wildly more beneficial to their agenda than it is to the Democrats’) to take a politically costly up or down vote on abortion, we probably are at a point where fascism has won and America is effectively a one party…

Yeah if we want to talk about lies that is a huge whopper. Dobbs was already controversial and unpopular when it was first filed and the sole issue was whether a 15 week ban complied with Roe/Casey (it only became about overturning Roe when Mississippi amended their brief to ask for a full overturn of Roe after ACB…

While it’s true that Republicans could get rid of the filibuster to ban abortion, it’s highly unlikely that they would or even that they would have the votes to ban it without the filibuster. The status quo is perfect for GOP senators because it allows them to sound tough on abortion when it politically benefits them…

Definitely heard Young Sheldon 

Greene has her seat as long as she wants it, but Boebert came within a few hundred votes of losing in 2022 (in what should have been an easy GOP district). Also, unlike Greene, Boebert hasn’t tried to play nice with GOP leadership, which still plays a big role in determining who gets campaign money. They might not…

Not to mention the people who voted for her in the primary. She holds what should be a safely blue seat. It’s especially galling when you consider how gerrymandered NC already is (and that’s only going to get worse after the latest court decisions there), despite the relatively purple nature of the state at large. She…

That’s not how things typically play out. The careers of most child stars end when they are children and many of them don’t have a ton of money left to show for it when they are done. All they get is the weird, traumatic stuff without the whole being set for life part.

Except, as written, it would ban school nurses from discussing periods as well as it appears to cover all school employees. There is an argument that school nurses don’t provide “instruction” on periods, but someone would have of course test that to know. As with many of these Gilead-like Republican laws against…

I would be pissed if All Quiet won Best Adapted Screenplay (even though that seems likely). Regardless of my issues with the praise the movie is getting, which basically seems like what if the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan, but make it the whole movie and not as well done, its an atrocious adaptation of the…

I don’t think Avatar is the savior of cinema, but it is nice change of pace from the MCU to see a big spectacle movie with VFX that don’t look like shit and reflecting someone’s personal, idiosyncratic (if ultimately dumb) vision rather than following a formula. With very few exceptions, I’d much rather watch an…

While he certainly would be better at policymaking than Trump (pretty much the lowest bar), DeSantis has had the advantage of a gerrymandered state where both houses of Florida’s state legislature and the Florida Supreme Court do his bidding (and sometimes want to go even further than even he is willing to go). It’s…

Could we at least acknowledge that The Ohio State Murders marks the brilliant black playwright Adrienne Kennedy’s Broadway debut at age 91?

If only we could actually watch Dogma (which is pretty much the only Kevin Smith movie I still kind of stan, but also I haven’t watched it in awhile). Thanks Harvey Weinstein.

Thomas’s concurrence in Dobbs suggested Griswold v. Connecticut and progeny (Griswold only provided the right for married women to get birth control, there was a subsequent case that expanded it to all women) should be overturned for the same reasons Roe was in Dobbs.

I could be wrong but I think the injunction on the law was pre-Roe which would have meant a court in AZ at that time found the law likely to fail on the merits regardless of whether Roe had passed or not, but they just dropped the case when Roe passed. If that’s not the case and the injunction was post-Roe, you still…