this would genuinely be way less fucked

happily for most of them they're just english

not to be rude, but i mean… pretty much everyone who works in british children's television gives off that vibe

It sounds great, they can protect themselves from Jim

In infinitely more depressing news, nobody look up the deal with Jim'll Fix It

so like… i dunno this always seemed funny as hell to me but this time it kinda feels like the joke is 'haha this is a date rape narrative, but with DuDES'

Dr Seuss at least apologized for those, and went out of his way to try and make up for it. That counts for something

evidently we have very different taste!

you shut your mouth shutter island was both gorgeous and a chance for scorsese to work out some of his formative influences (powell and pressburger in particular) that hadn't gotten much into his work previously

We could always like… give her a solo lead, like Winter's Bone (which is still her best film imo)

A.) Scorsese's said he'd have fucked off from making movies a decade ago were it not for DiCaprio and only a monster thinks that's preferable
B.) Their collaborations are on like a 100% great streak from the Departed onward

A fun game to play with AVClub reviews is to note the line when you knew exactly what writer you were reading without checking the byline. On this one, "(It’s been said that a director gives everything away in their debut feature, and then learns to shade it over time; Russell’s was about incest.) " made it 100% clear…

he gets to do press for star wars- which is probably contractual- by shitting on star wars

2001 isn't particularly trying to show an attempt at communication that proves impossible, though- whatever the monolith builders intended to communicate apparently comes through perfectly well.

Oh, sure- I don't know that there is a rigorous defense to be made of the status quo, so I would assume that extremism is probably a consequence of actually rigorous interrogation of one's positions. I also don't know how much I value 'rigor' per se, since that sometimes leads to a dull airlessness, and I'll happily…

I mean, Tarkovsky's interests aren't particularly close to Lem's- although the concept of true alienness, something genuinely ineffable and impossible to fully communicate with, comes across better in Tarkovsky's movie than anywhere else I've seen- but good lord dismissing Tarkovsky's own preoccupations as 'Russian…

I would accuse Zizek of lacking intellectual rigor, he's basically adopted the language of Marxism to what ultimately is just a vague series of nothings with the occasional neo-conservative garbage opinion tossed in

i'm starting to think sandler is only making movies because SNL didn't provide a pension to anybody

I liked Blackhat a lot, but Hemsworth did seem miscast, just because like… he physically didn't make any sense for the role, and was visibly straining to fit it. I think he did a solid job at a Herculean task, but he's just never going to be a chameleonic character actor.

In this metaphor, the dramatic tension is the contents, and the demitasse is the vessel