it’s extremely funny that flash is supposed to be heavily reliant on the return of keaton as a selling point, but a random batgirl movie on hbomax is gonna do it first.

“Conservatives interpreting Juno as pro choice makes as much sense as liberals retroactively declaring Fight Club to be a condemnation of “toxic masculinity.”’

Nothing to apologize for. Stylized dialogue has been around forever. Watch any teen movie from the 60s and prepare yourself for an earful of beatnik.

I think you’re reading subtext in Solo that wasn’t really there.

This makes it quite bitterly ironic that she was in a movie about how physically disabled people have nothing to live for and should just kill themselves.

So, my old man worked with a bloke who had like 11 near-death experiences. And we’re not talking about “Gosh, if I didn’t look in that shop window for half a minute and instead crossed the road when I gonna, I’d have been hit by that car!” sort of near-death experiences.

I teach an Intro to Film class and the required textbook is Looking at Movies by Dave Monahan and Richard Barsam. They discuss Juno extensively in the first chapter, so I have the class watch it for the first week’s film. For what it’s worth, I’d say Monahan and Barsam definitely believe the film puts its thumb on the…

Aneurysms scare the crap out of me because they seem to happen to anyone regardless of health and there is not much you can do about it. I also fear the thing Emilia did where you have one, they save your live but you are not “you” anymore. My mother-in-law suffered one 25 years ago and while she survived, its not a…

Not to mention that “choice” means just that. You can’t want choice for women then be upset when they make a selection you disagree with. Plenty of women choose to give birth and allow a family who can’t conceive to adopt their children.

I think the movie does a good job showing how vulnerable you are being young and pregnant. Juno is taken advantage of and influenced by a lot of other peoples expectations on her body. I didn’t find it anti-choice, instead I think it did a good job of showing what a traumatic experience it is having so many others…

You should have seen the DR France lip sync I saw.

I am old enough to remember that McDonalds coffee fiasco, namely in that I was actually burned (2nd degree) by a small amount that spilled from my cup onto my hand. Took 2 years for the burn scar to mostly heal (didn’t sue though.. but I approved the lawsuit when it happened). Still baffles to me to this day how they…

yeah it’s best just to rip off Ursula K. Le Guin a bit and call it a day

Reminds me of when Harry Potter became huge and everyone started suing JK Rowling because they wrote a children’s book about wizards, or magic, or with a character named Potter or something that sounded like Potter. You can’t copyright the idea of a sitcom or a mockumentary or a show set in an inner city public…

I agree, Raja or the Viv would have been better choices. I’m guessing they didn’t give to Raja because she was blocked from getting a star and this keeps the tension higher on who makes the final four. The Viv probably lost her chance because her runway, though lovely, was somewhat pedestrian. Though I’m unfamiliar…

It’s almost like why roast Ronan Farrow when pretty much everyone else is such deliciously low hanging fruit, and the obvious jokes at Farrow’s expense are pretty tasteless.

Another great episode- and Untucked is particularly hilarious.

Just a mild pet peeve. Supercooling has an actual meaning and that isn’t it. I know you threw quotes around it, but I’ve literally never seen supercooled or superheated used correctly in any form of pop media. 

Exactly this.

I live in the Orlando area. The thermostat gets set to 76 during the day and 72 at night. The few times the system has stopped cycling during the summer, the house becomes uncomfortably warm at 80 and nearly unbearable at 84.

You must be in a low-humidity location? 83 degrees here takes your breath away when it’s humid.