Maybe this is just copium on my part, but I don’t actually think ATN calling it for Mencken will actually make him win. Part of the Roys’ whole journey is them learning that they are not, in fact, their father: they have immense power, of course, but they cannot bend the entire world to their whim just by saying so. I…

This article feels like it was written by an AI.

It rules that no one on Succession fucks, because the psychosexual gumbo they have instead of fucking is a hundred times more compelling.

I have no idea why horror, a genre that has historically flourished on the margins of the film industry, has suddenly become so desperate for the Academy’s approval. Even if Mia Goth was objectively better than Michelle Yeoh or Cate Blanchett (which she wasn’t, because objectivity doesn’t exist past a certain level of…

Tom is always the best because you can tell that he’s trying to be a macho alpha type like Logan but every word he says has to be processed through the haunted gay Hummel figurine that lives in his brain

Ah, I find it hard to get worked up about this. She has the exact amount of un-self-awareness that makes this rich person nonsense funny. At least she’s not hunting people for sport.

He was in Twister, though! He was the guy with the mustache singing Oklahoma.

Eilish really is fantastic here, incidentally.

We need to shut down prestige TV until we figure out what the hell’s going on

It should be a crime to waste Kaitlin Olson.

Did you really say Belfast should have won Best Picture when The Power of the Dog and Drive My Car were in contention

Almost disappointed that they got into the whole trauma thing. Yeah, obviously, it’s a realistic thing to have, but we’ve already got dozens of movies and TV shows unpacking Trauma, I kinda just wanted episodic vibes.

I don’t know what the issue is. He’s an acclaimed director who just made an acclaimed film, one that this publication in particular named the best of 2022 (IIRC) - why wouldn’t they interview him?

I strongly disagree.

Am I going crazy, or was Tim Blake Nelson’s character actually named Keith?

I loooooove some good retrofuturism, so I was excited for this - shame that it seems to fall into the prestige-TV trappings of faux-profundity.

I hope they never acknowledge it, tbh. I don’t want some wink to the camera like “gosh isn’t it weird how people keep dropping dead whenever you’re around”, just let a formula be a formula

Fun fact: Maid in Manhattan was inspired in part by Jeanne Dielman.

I am continually confused as to why this uneven but ambitious and well-meaning director inspires such frothing rage in people. It’s not even like he’s dominating multiplexes like Marvel, he just comes out with a few mildly successful movies every few years. Why get so mad?

I have never felt so profoundly apathetic towards a Marvel movie than Quantumania.