Clean, Shaven is such a fantastic, criminally-underseen film. I actually discovered it through an assignment for a college class on special education, in which I had to watch 5 films depicting disabilities from different decades. I reached out to the Something Awful film forum for recs and it was recommended by a few…

I was thinking they were going to be, like, super racist and sexist or something.

Gonna go ahead and assume you don’t spend a lot of time around Zoomers.

Feels like most of the coverage of this is burying the lede: This is explicitly so the creators stop getting paid for their work. Shows being axed on a whim and being stuck in legal purgatory is really bad, but too many are simply chalking this up to “tax cuts” without understanding there’s something much more…

That Trump line instantly killed any interest I had in this show. My absolute biggest pet peeve with more recent period pieces is winky-nudgy references to things that happen in the future. I can’t even properly convey in words how much I hate those. Also, what Black person living in NYC in the 70s/80s would consider…

The big question is not who’s an actor and who’s real, but how much we should believe what the show tells us about who/what is real and not. It really reminded me of Exit Through the Gift Shop in that respect.

Both. The original premise of the show is that Nathan painstakingly recreates real-life scenarios with actors and sets in order to prepare real people to handle them. Really only the first episode-and-a-half follow that premise though; it goes way off the rails pretty quickly.

Nexstar owns my local FOX affiliate. Their news broadcasts have always been very weird, awkward, and unprofessional. At least in the morning; their evening news is fine for the most part. A former morning anchor—who was well-known for being a total clown and, at least to me, appeared to be intoxicated more often than…

Agreed wholeheartedly. I’m 100% for representation in media, but implying we’re not allowed to criticize media containing underrepresented characters is weird as fuck.

Speaking only for myself, I’ve always hated the dialogue and tone of those games. I made it 20 hours or so into the first before I couldn’t take it anymore, and I’d say I only made it 5-10 in the second because it was 10x more annoying and cringeworthy. Didn’t bother with the third and won’t bother with any future…

I taught high school for the last six years and this doesn’t sound very much like any of my students. It sounds like 30-something old dudes trying to sound like my students though.

How did you manage to both get the joke and totally not get the joke at the same time? 

I get this feeling basically every time I find out about a new show. There’s simply too much TV, full stop. And far too many networks/subnetworks. Has anyone in history ever subscribed to Epix on purpose? Like, not as a part of a bigger bundle? It’s offered on Youtube TV and I just can’t believe people willingly pay…

“Bruce’s not here, maaannn....”

Right? I actually don’t know where people draw the line anymore because it just keeps moving. A lot of people online are starting to consider even basic plot synopses to be spoilers. It’s silly. I think in a few years we’ll see people consider teaser posters and even the genre of the film to be spoilers and will throw…

Posted it as a reply to another comment, but it’s worth noting Skydance Animation is really just the American wing of an existing Madrid-based studio originally called Ilion Animation, but rebranded to Skydance Animation Madrid after partnering with Skydance Media and eventually being bought out entirely. Luck is the…

Those early years of traditional cel-animated shows using CGI were so rough. The YT poster’s pfp reminded me that Spongebob had some awful examples too. I don’t remember the context of the episode but there was one where he wouldn’t let go of someone’s car (Ms. Puff’s maybe?) and was dragged all over the place. In…

It’s also worth noting Skydance is actually a Madrid-based animation company called Ilion Animation Studios that rebranded itself after partnering with Skydance Media. Lassetter is the head of the American side (called Skydance Animation, technically a separate company) but doesn’t have control of the Madrid studio.…

Up is the animated family movie version of Full Metal Jacket, in terms of their mid-film shifts. All the marketing leaned heavily on the first half of the movie, and, as someone who hasn’t seen it since its initial release, I remember very little about what happened in the second half. (I’d also argue the second half…

Brave stays slept on. I think a lot of people thought it was just Pixar Does Disney and skipped it entirely without realizing it totally flips the conventions of the princess story. It’s surprisingly mature and emotionally deep. Plus IMO it was their most visually beautiful film until Coco. It’s definitely Minor Pixar…