I don't know if thinking that Jennifer Ehle gives one of the greatest performances in any movie in Contagion is a hot take, but it absolutely shouldn't be.

I made a dumb joke about this in Gussie's thread about the untimely demise of the CZ Summer Film Group, but I'm being serious about it now; I would very much like to liveblog with 20th Century Women with all y'all at some point before Kinja is implemented. It is a balm to the soul, and I think we all need that right…

20th Century Women (and not just because I'm writing a long piece about it right now).

Bo Burnham's debut as a writer/director, The Coolest Girl in the World, is done shooting and has been picked up by A24.

I'd say it's because its distributor, Open Road Films, is owned by both AMC and Regal, thus opening up all of those locations, but this is inexplicably the first film they've used that power on.

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature is looking to have the worst opening for any film released in more than 4000 theaters, with somewhere around $9 million for the weekend.

I don't think any of the movies he's made post-Midnight have lived up to the worst of his "I guess I'll film a first draft because I gotta pump these out" approach (I'm pretty sure that's actually what happened with Whatever Works because of the writer's strike, and of course there's Jade Scorpion and Hollywood Ending)…

I haven't seen the new Spider-Man, but she's quite good in The Beguiled too.

Yeah, Storaro convinced Allen to go digital on Cafe Society (a conversation I would love to hear, considering, in addition to what you said, Allen only started mixing his movies in stereo and not mono in 2007) and he's stuck to it since. I will say that Cafe Society was Allen's most gorgeous movie since Manhattan, and…

Man, I would love Woody Allen to make a movie in 70mm. Especially with Vittorio Storaro.

I would not be surprised if Frances Ha Ha was a working title of Mistress America.

I was referring to/joking about Frances Ha.

Wow, I take offense to that oblique, possibly nonexistent Greta Gerwig diss.

The obvious mistake you made was not waiting until you could do 20th Century Women for it.

The real final shot is finding out Baby used to read Word Up! Magazine

I saw The Big Sick today, oh boy (I wasn't going to do one for this, but I had to do something that would stop me from looking at Twitter)

If he said "fuck", it must have been one of the Yahoo! episodes I didn't watch.

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I think you should honestly be fired from whatever job you're working if you diss 2000s-and-beyond Spielberg.

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