Normally I’d agree with you, but considering goddamn cunts like Piers Morgan were criticizing her for not showing up soon enough I can’t fault her for it in this case.

You seem angry. *Hugs*

Holding the the faux decapitated-heads of your political enemies is gross. It wasn’t ok when people lynched effigies of Obama, and it’s not okay now. Let’s not use Trump’s dangerous policies as an excuse to lower our standards for ourselves.

In fairness to the airplanes claim, flight crews tend to experience higher rates of certain types of cancer, likely, but not certainly, due to the increased levels of radiation higher in the atmosphere. Obviously, for most flyers, the exposure isn’t enough to cause concern, but if you have a long career in the sky,…

Virgin Suicides had a production budget of about $9 million — which is a lot for a debut feature. It only made a little better than 10 million worldwide, but also got a lot of acclaim. Lost in translation was less — about $4 million, which is not a lot, but it made close to $150 million, which probably explains the…

I distinctly remember Lost in Translation being a thing when it came out, and the closing scene where he whispers in her ear could be fairly characterized as iconic.

I don’t really get always bringing up that she’s FFC’s daughter. That was definitely a lucky break, but if you get into a ivy-league school because you’re a legacy and still manage to graduate top of your class, you’ve still worked hard to get there. I don’t think the recognition she’s received is undeserved.…

Looks brilliant to me. Lost in Translation had a huge cultural impact (and she got an Oscar for it). Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette also resonated with a lot of people. And by all accounts The Beguiled is excellent. Has she done some other stuff that wasn’t as good? Probably, but most people with brilliant…

At 46 she’s directed 6 features (most of which fall somewhere between warmly received and critically acclaimed) and Bill Murray’s Christmas special. And she has an Oscar. And now is only the second woman in the history of Cannes to win best director. She’s doing alright.

Re: Actual, Cannibal Shia LeBeouf — Does anyone know if California is one of those states where liability from torts drunk people commit extends to the person who served them the alcohol?

I honestly don’t think he was going to bat for the Republicans in the election, but his decisions were motivated by politics. Think back to last summer. We all thought Hillary had it in the bag. He probably did too. He also knew that if anything came out that could give Republicans even the slightest suspicion that…

Piers Morgan is, as his countrymen would say, a cunt.

Women are vastly underrepresented in the profession. It simply wouldn’t be feasible to say she’s going to do it at 50/50. The issue here isn’t with Nicole’s choices — it’s with the industry at large. If roughly a quarter of her movies going forward are with woman directors, that’s not depressing. Under the…

Mattis — who is one of the few people whose integrity hasn’t (to my knowledge) been destroyed by his association with Trump (I still grieve for H.R. McMaster’s reputation) — is 6th.

I wouldn’t be too hasty claiming either lone-wolf or ISIS-directed. Many of the ISIS-linked attacks in the West were “inspired” by ISIS (I believe all the attacks in the U.S. fall into this category), but some were directed. The November 2015 Paris attacks and Brussels bombing, for example, were directed.

Well, I am that way about Oliver Platt.

I was into it. With all the reboots happening these days, and with all the weight of all our nostalgia-driven expectations of this, it didn’t feel like Lynch was constraining himself to the original, if that makes sense. It both is and isn’t Twin Peaks, and it definitely feels like it’s exactly what Lynch wants to do…

I watched the second season and am still not sure what happened, but this might help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks

Too me it looks more vintage than grandma. I like it but then I’m an old lady.