I’m in my 40s, and nothing makes me feel younger than when people make the dumbest complaints about “young people”. It makes me feel like I haven’t completely lost touch... yet.

But this is a symptom of the problem - Franzese’s complaint is that there are limited leading role opportunities for fat queer actors, so it’s almost impossible for them to achieve the name recognition of someone like Fraser. Imagine being told over and over you’re too fat for a role, and then an actual, great fat…

Still remember Jon Stewart leaping with joy over the prospect of Trump running. It’s a measure of how isolated and out of touch he was getting, even then, and it’s no surprise that he eventually devolved into a “China virus” guy.

...does anyone care who hosts SNL? Has anyone cared in the past, like, 30 years? A celebrity will host an episode of SNL because they have a movie to promote and/or they were a former writer/cast member who has reached a sufficient level of fame and/or they’re Tom Hanks. It will be a pleasant surprise/mild…

Ooh you did the “but what about the opposite” thing. Very smart and clever.

EB and her husband are the producers of the show. She created work for herself.

“I was told by a big producer of big action movies that I couldn’t direct action, that male actors were not going to follow me,” Banks says. “He was flummoxed at the idea that a woman would be able to lead The Rock on a C.G.I. screen, I guess? That was said by someone with a lot of power in our industry to my…

I thought Clooney just punched that fool.

If Paul Thomas Anderson was feuding with Timothee Chalamet because he kept disappearing from set to conduct an affair with Megan Thee Stallion and they got into a screaming match about it......yes...they would be discussing it. And if someone has the personal power to make that happen I would eat it up just as…

Why are you still giving this dumpster fire unearned press

Add my name to this list. As with Ted Lasso, Abbott a nice, sweet show that has some redeeming qualities and a couple of laughs for sure, but it’s... just a show to me. I keep looking for what gives it this over-the-top praise but can’t find it. And yes, obviously this is a Me Problem since they both keep winning…

I remember reading somewhere (so take that source with a grain of salt) that the plan was for Jimmy Darmody to get exiled by Nucky from Atlantic City, and that he was going to go to New York (with Lucy Danziger in tow), and continue being a character there (probably eventually resulting in the same fate), but the crew…

How does this list not include Chef from South Park.

They performed it and (crucially) recruited the children.

No, Styles can do as he pleases, but it’s also ok to critique the discourse around why it’s ok for straight passing rich white men to gender play but not for the rest of the Queer community. And really, how little has shifted in that regard if you think of Bowie as the last megastar to play with ideas around gender. It…

I see my Dev Patel for Bond campaign is starting to gain traction. Everyone else on this list can kick rocks.

I think Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tom Hardy face the same problem as Idris Elba: They’re just too old (45) to begin a 10- to 12-year run.

While most of the controversy is obviously coming from bad faith white racists crying “but, but, Black people had slaves too!” bullshit, there isn’t a shortage of Black academics and writers that have issues with the movie and its depiction of the Dahomey kingdom. Particularly those whose ties to the region are quite…

Indeed, there’s never been a major biopic of George Washington, which would be odd for a nation that loves movies so much, until you realize that, yeah, it’s almost certainly because of the whole slavery thing. Even when old-timey Hollywood was happy to churn out endless westerns in which Indians were the villains,…

To add to what you’ve said - I’m sure there are many films that ignore the Founding Fathers’ contribution/attitudes towards slavery, but I can’t imagine that many of these would portray them as actively campaigning against slavery. And I certainly can’t imagine any of those being made nowadays.