What’s even in the can? It sounds like a lot of the 2024 summer movies had to halt filming due to the strike.

At least part of this is that Gunn was placed in a very uncomfortable position from the jump — he clearly wasn’t allowed to publicly announce an explicit hard reboot until all the movies already on the release slate had come out. So Gunn got his dream job and it was an offer he couldn’t refuse, but it required living…

It’s not just dismissiveness, it’s like a refusal to engage with the movie’s themes. I agree that this wasn’t some superwoke anti-men screed, but that’s because of the substance of the story, not because it’s just a doll movie or whatever Rogan said.

Not buying it. The critics didn’t soften on Jack and start calling it a misunderstood comedy masterpiece, just because Coppola directed it.

Cronos should be on the list, but it is at least somewhat debatable whether that is really a vampire movie or a fantasy/horror movie that contains some elements of vampirism. I think that may be giving too much credit to the people who put this list together, though.

I’m old enough to have seen Coppola’s Dracula in theaters. Reviews were mixed at the time, although that was one of the first times I remember the audience applauding a movie at the end. It’s pretty hard to remember now, but in 1992 the Bela Lugosi version was considered so definitive that Coppola’s approach felt like…

I see people say this a lot about Ridley Scott’s latter day work, but I don’t think consistency is that important to a filmmaker’s reputation, because you can always just ignore the stuff that doesn’t work. Francis Ford Coppola has directed a number of clunkers since the 70s, and even if Megalopolis is unwatchably…

That honestly wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. Far from how Ben Shapiro interpreted the movie, it is quite nuanced when it comes to the plight of the oppressed Kens who are forced to live in an apartheid state without purpose or opportunity, and Gosling gave a thoroughly committed performance. I don’t think…

How is Taylor Swift a scab? She doesn’t work in the hotel industry. What she does is only vaguely connected to hotels in the sense that some people maybe stay in a hotel prior to seeing a Taylor Swift concert.

The studios particularly seem to be fomenting infighting between the small handful of wealthy actors, and the much larger majority of justifiably angry working actors. I’m convinced that’s how all these stories keep bubbling up. Actors piling on actors on social media and yelling “scab!” at every provocation is…

So some hotel workers are striking somewhere in the nation’s second largest city, and that means Taylor Swift isn’t allowed to perform or she’s a bad person?

Eh, Levi should be able to talk about past projects that came out months or years before the strike. The rules against promotion should only apply to projects that come out during the strike. The rule is kind of dumb. That doesn’t mean he’s a flaming scab who hates working actors.

Nah, he was always a bad fit for that time slot. If Jay Leno had dropped dead of an aneurysm before NBC could cancel his primetime show, Conan would have continued to struggle until they fired him and replaced him with Fallon.

This is an excellent post. One thing that struck me after all this came out is that in her videos, Lizzo is always shown to have a type — traditionally handsome, muscular Black men. She hires big backup dancers, but doesn’t really exhibit any diversity in her own sexual attraction towards others. These allegations…

But wasn’t that due in part to the fact that reality talent is not unionized?

It would be especially difficult because most reality shows are designed to either reset the entire cast every season, or constantly rotate cast members off. For the most part, audiences aren’t as invested in individual personalities for reality shows as they are in the premise and format and sometimes the…

A “public place”?! It was a fucking porno theater, not an art museum. The entire point of those theaters was that they were a public space where people could masturbate.

I think society changed enough since then that we all collectively realized how silly it was that we prudishly shamed Reubens for doing a totally harmless normal thing, and Reubens felt that.

What the fuck happened to this site?

Don’t ever become sufferable, Morrissey.