All hail the new overlords, who didn’t make this a goddamn slideshow!

Hot take: I’ve held the belief for a while now, that I think 007 should end. There’s only so much they can do with James Bond (several times over), and it has proven doubly hard post-cold war.

WHILE THE JOKES DID WORK BETTER IN CONTEXT, I WONDER HOW YOU CAN LOOK THAT TRAILER AND CONCLUDE IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING OTHER THAN A COMEDY OR ACTION/COMEDY? THE GOOFY MUSIC (AT ONE POINT SYNCED TO MURRAY DANCING), “ANYBODY SEE A GHOST?”, “IMPORTANT SAFETY TIP”, AKROYD’S GOOFY FACIAL EXPRESSION, THE REFERENCE TO SPOOK…

Worst of the Worst: Rhea Seehorn and BCS shut out again.

It wishes it was that good.

I really like Taylor Swift (and those bonuses she gave to her road crew were legitimately a wonderful gesture), but she didn’t say a word against Ticketmaster when her fans were trying to fight them. Meanwhile Robert Smith squared up and got Ticketmaster to partially refund fees to Cure fans. If an elderly goth can do…

Yeah, I wish Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story had killed off that kind of musician biopic (because it fucking NAILED the formula, in hilarious fashion), but we still keep getting them. But I guess there will always be a market for them, as the “stans” for these musicians will always eat that shit up, no matter how…

Wow, what an extremely typical list. I was hoping you guys would expose some of us to the films that didn’t win Oscars for best pictures or rank highest on the IMDB or AFI top lists.

I once attended a panel discussion on biopics and the general consensus was the 2007 Todd Haynes film I’m Not There was the most…

Walk the Line and Ray? Seriously? Those movies are prime examples of bland, shit biopics - how not to make one. They may feature wonderful performances, but the movies are hollow shells that fabricate events in order to fill a 2 hour narrative. They are the same movie, so much so they directly inspired a movie mocking…

Wow, no love for Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox story, which clearly inspired Walk the Line?

Marsden was playing himself. They absolutely made it clear, he was James Marsden (just, like, a wildly heightened, egotistical version of himself).

This was the nomination swan song, and only for the last batch of episodes. Rhea and Bob got in, and there really wasn’t enough of Banks or Giancarlo to make a a dent in a stacked Supporting Actor field this year.  I am shocked Cranston missed out on Guest Actor for Henry and Sam in TLoU, though.  Not that it is going…

Nice photo choice (no sarcasm). What a fuckin weirdo.

The Snubbing of Rhea Seehorn 2023 promises to continue an infuriating pattern.

Should win: Better Call Saul

Tenet wasn’t very fun to watch the first time though

I would also add “The Sting.” The story is put together so well that even after you know how it ends, you can watch it multiple times and notice things that you would never have noticed on that innocent first viewing.

It will never cease to boggle my mind that someone who seems like such a nice dude emerged from the same womb as an utter troglodyte. 

My two cents: until the end of the movie, Chighurh is presented as this unstoppable, Terminator-like force who can kill even men as tough as Moss and Woody Harrelson’s Vietnam-vet colonel.

I’m going to say off the bat that I’ve had students write absolutely incredible essays arguing both sides of this question, which I think is absolutely the point of the ending—it contains hopeful elements but at the same time suggests (without outright saying) that hope is illusory. My take on the ending is that it…