A combination of uBlock Origin and a piHole make the site mostly usable, although that stupid sign-up-for-our-newsletter popup is still the bane of my existence here.

This. Depp was always a party kid but I really feel like hanging out with HST was just about the worst possible decision that he could have made. Thompson, frankly, skated by on a ton of remarkably shitty behavior mostly by dint of mostly doing it with and to a small circle of people who seemed determined to put up…

Neeson had the good sense to take a part that had him getting written out before even TPM ended! :)

As someone who lived in Philly in the 80s, I’m looking forward to seeing this. The later firebombing of MOVE’s second west philly headquarters was a raw wound in the city for most of my adolescence there.

Also nice to see Temeura Morrison, who may have been the only actor to escape Attack of the Clones with a tiny bit of his dignity intact, getting to rejoin the star wars universe in a vehicle that isn’t, you know, completely awful.

ctrl-f “Lair of the white worm”

Future historians are gonna lose their goddamn minds when they realize that Fury Road was written, cast, costumed, storyboarded, filmed and released all before Donald Trump declared his candidacy for president.

Hell, give PW-B the entire series. She can play the Doctor, the Master, Rassilon, whoever the hell she wants. Give her the showrunner slot and a budget and then step aside.

I mean... there are things to like about it? Whitaker absolutely has “it” and the camera loves her. The core cast are all very good and appealing actors even if the scripts under-serve them constantly. The series has never looked better: the direction and cinematography all feel like a massive upgrade from the…

So we’re now three years into this experiment where we gave the consistent worst writer on the new series the showrunner role; how’s that working out for us?

Cox was a solid casting choice as Matt -- a not-bad actor with enough physicality to make the fight scenes work -- but if they can’t get D’Onofrio back as Fisk I’m not sure what the point of it would be.  Every bit of the show that didn’t have him in it was just an inhuman drag, and the less said about all of Karen…

OH GOD THAT FUCKING SCENE.

It’s not a bad plan.

Uh, I kinda figured that out from the “Snudbert Flunderkip” part...

I’d add “David Thewlis and Robin Wright classing up the joint” to that list and call Jenkins’ directing at least a notch above adequate (if nothing else, she’s continuing in what appears to be a tradition of Arrested Development alumni turning out to be really good at big-screen action sequences) but... yeah, I can’t…

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Here in NYC the fact that the police force is ludicrously and dangerously corrupt is, I’m afraid, always relevant: I wouldn’t at all rule out the possibility that someone is trying to arrange themselves a promotion by pinning it on a mentally ill homeless dude who had the ill luck to have the same build and a similar…

He’s a lunatic with artistic taste that ranges from the questionable to the inexplicable, but his dedication to the physical craft of his job is absolutely unimpeachable.

I think you’ve gotten to the core problem with this film: none of it mattered even a tiny bit. Of all of the possible questions that someone might have had about the character of Anakin Skywalker after watching IV-VI, “what was he like when he was a second-grader” has to rank... it doesn’t rank at all. Nobody ever…

God. A million years ago when I worked in the financial district, the stone facade of one of the 30-story buildings facing broadway started to break off. It had a full-on road runner cartoon crack in it that you could feel getting wider as you stared at it.