IIRC, this was around the time where the standard villain was starting to move from a brown man with an accent to a fantastically wealthy white man. Or, occasionally, an Eastern European white man with an accent. Although most of those were either Russian Oligarchs or wannabe Russian oligarchs, so still fantastically…

Yeah I mean didn’t he know the answer?

This. She’s bemoaning that briefest of periods in the late 90s to early 00s when indies were a cheap way for studios to buy Oscar noms for original screenplay, or supporting actor. They’d just go to Sundance and buy a few films there to beef up their awards slate. But then a number of those films flopped, or frankly…

I certainly understand the frustration that indie filmmaking is struggling and that smaller films are finding it ever harder to find an audience.

He also seems to have, for the most part, had fairly age appropriate leading ladies. Sarandon, Sean Young, Amy Madigan, Madeline Stowe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio, Patricia Clarkson, Joan Allen, Annette Benning and Sissy Spacek are within a few years of him or even older.

This review sure is mad about something. Would I sound like a cabbie if I said “If yous mad about somethin’ you’ll probably do a shitty job.”
Tell me exactly what’s wrong with this movie - or you could show instead of tell. I watched the trailer and I like what it’s showing me, and if it comes to my shitty town (so…

Where is the review of Daddio? I’m sorry, but this reads like a college freshman assignment but the most vital part is missing. You asked a question but didn’t answer it. If there’s a Part II coming up, I’m here for it though.

Music industry person checking in: SXSW consistently fucks over performers, and their sole goal is to make money for themselves.

What I really don’t get about these shows like this and Dickinson is who they are for. Presumably anyone who would want to watch a show about Emily Dickinson or Jane Grey are people with some interest in history and would want a show that is reasonably historically accurate. I’m not demanding a documentary, some…

It’s surprising for Grohl to be throwing such obvious shade Swift’s way, first because he’s clearly aware of the consequences of “the wrath of Taylor Swift,” and second because the pair have always been friendly in the past.

Truth? The new ownership loved the original incarnation of the site, and the current editors believe in the concept of “standing on the shoulders of giants.” They’ve endured the G/O era, they’ve got good writers who were stymied by the requirements placed upon them by the previous ownership, and I truly believe that…

Sorry, but this season of True Detective rapidly went downhill after the first episode.

Have you been to La Guardia recently? First time I flew into the unbeknownst-to-me renovated United terminal post-COVID (i.e. after a couple of years) I thought I’d boarded the wrong plane. I don’t know about the entire airport, but that terminal at least has been completely gutted and renovated to the point it’s…

LaGuardia has been completely rebuilt and is much better now. Newark is still pretty dumpy. The reason why JFK gets a bit higher marks in my book is the Saarinen designed Terminal building which is cool looking and is now a retro looking hotel now that’s one of the coolest places to have a drink and hangout before…

I’m not sure what Justin Timberlake maybe using a blaccent 20 years ago has to do with a drunk driving arrest today, but then again, I’m not the AV Club.

The movie also provides a nice little snap shot in time of post-unification Berlin when it was still in its Bohemian stage. 

While I have no doubt that there was/is some homophobia going on, especially at the studio executive level, I’m inclined to believe that he was indeed fired simply because he cast as Ratner’s Superman. When Ratner left and the project changed, the casting changed with it. Happens all the time.

1) Would a Bret Ratner-directed Superman film have done anything other than sucked? Count your blessings, Matt Bomer.

It ticks all the boxes, doesn’t it? Lazy, out-of-date, out-of-touch, completely lacking in nuance, yet presenting itself so confidently.

What could be more timely than a June 2024 post resuscitating a niche cultural debate from 2015 about a 1949 Christmas song?