At the end of the day, someone was killed by a bullet that never should have been there in the first place and could have and should have been caught at many points throughout the process. That alone strongly suggests the production was not “professional” in some fundamental ways. It’s nice that the costume designer…
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Like often happens with online discussions of best movies, it always seems like there’s huge recency bias. Even serious critics, who are usually better about including older stuff on the good lists, seem a little gunshy around the older winners, who have acquired a little prestige just by virtue of age. If someone’s…
We’ve now seen Bond movies played straight, parodies both deliberate and accidental, modernizations, subversions, deconstructions... we might be good on Bond? I’m not actually invested enough to care either way if the inevitable next one is a woman, but if we have to do this, hire like Werner Herzog so we can get…
Jessica Jones is weird because her story has a much more obvious arc than most other characters. The Kilgrave story is great, but once she deals with it, she’s just another hardboiled PI. It’s why the first season of the show is among the best Marvel shows ever, and the rest is...not. It’s also why she hasn’t really…
I’d add that while the kid who plays Harrison is doing a great job, “Is Harrison a psychopath?” is about the least interesting, most obvious way they could have gone with this. I know it’s fucking Dexter, so that’s just how we roll, but Dexter dealing with and/or mentoring another budding killer that he cares about is…
Yeah, and he kinda looks like an asshole here. From the faintly psychopathic lack of empathy, to the callousness of the vaguely victim-blamey statements about positioning, to the apparently willful ignorance and/or lack of attention to detail that had him either not noticing or not caring enough to ask about crew…
Gibson’s kind of a weird example, though, in that I think it’s hard to make a convincing case that he’s being given a pass because his bigotry was directed against Jews since there was also a healthy dose of racism and misogyny on top of the anti-semitism.
It seems way more likely that he’s getting a pass because his…
Cancel culture is a buzzy phrase that’s mostly used to reduce a complicated question to a binary issue that people can quickly take sides on. That question is “should the things a person does or says affect their ability to work in profitable, high-profile industries?”
The people who are philosophically opposed to…
It is broken, but it has enough prestige and history that no one’s quite willing to admit it yet. Everything happening at the top level to create winnable games is just designed to force people to fuck up. It’d be like if every MLB game was a 0-0 tie for five straight years, so they started blindfolding players to…
I really don’t get what networks don’t break off like $100,000 for a bare bones, near-stage production and then use their imaginations instead of dropping 30 million on something you might not even pick up. Fundamental story problems are the one thing that’s unfixable, and they’ll be noticeable even if the dragon is…
The “we fucked this up once, so next time, let’s just go straight to a ten episode commitment!” logic is surely a plan that can only make them money going forward!
I see where you’re coming from, but the fact that they didn’t have this deal explicitly laid out in writing seems like a loophole that could be used in this specific instance without jeopardizing the concept of immunity deals for testimony in the future (frankly, if all you have now is someone pinky promising not to…
If you were trapped in a horror movie, what would be your survival strategy?
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With a lot of qualifiers, the most charitable reading is that he’s saying the Guccis are public figures, so they’re not subject to the same privacy protections as normal people.
“One of them got murdered so I can do whatever I want” is admittedly about the shittiest possible way of saying that, though.
I guarantee you that May, like most cisgender people, cannot name a single trans musician despite their being so prevalent that the industry is forcing one into every band.
The top five on the UK album charts right now are by Adele, Ed Sheeran, ABBA, Oasis, and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. If the PC police are forcing all this diversity on the industry, they fucking suck at it.
It gets marginally better after that, but this white victimhood narrative never makes any goddam sense or…
Mario is a Japanese fantasy creature based on Italian stereotypes who got his start as an ape abuser that you played as the protagonist of a video game. If you find Pratt problematic, he’s kinda just one more straw on the pile.
That said, in universe Mario is fourth generation Italian-American who brings it up…
In the middle of a pandemic!
Is it really some shock that nothing is doing “well” this year by historical standards, and the top-grossing movies are all the 27th sequels or spin-offs of recognizable IP, the cinematic equivalent of comfort food?