I think he was more skeptical of “confident religions” than things getting to a point where things get counterintuitive to current science.

Sitcom-wise, there’s Young Sheldon and Fresh Off the Boat, as well as this show. Oddly, there have probably been more sitcoms about the 90s than there were about the 70s in the 90s. Happy Days had a whole universe of shows, so I guess that was probably the biggest peak of that kind of thing.

In this case, it’s kind of an issue, since the ages for the kids on That 90's Show don’t really line up.  They should have set That 90's Show like a couple of years later than they did and it would work out much better.

Rey coming from Palpatine doesn’t contradict the message of The Last Jedi.  “Coming from anywhere” includes “coming from the worst person in the galaxy.”

50 years isn’t old when it comes to film. Here’s hoping films from their disc library from the 1890s to 1973 also get put on streaming.

I wonder if the cafe interior is the Pleasant Cafe in Roslindale.  That’s a pizza place just a walk from home that was also used in The Boston Strangler, from earlier this year.  If so, the mindblowing thing is that the exterior wasn’t used in either film, as it’s perfect for a movie set from the 1930s to the 1970s,…

Single-camera shows also have ways to scream at the audience where the funny part is supposed to be, through sound effects, music, and smash cuts.  It’s not a better or worse model, just a different one, and both are exactly as manipulative as the other.

Here’s a Frasier follow-up I did three years ago, where it’s about the characters Freddy, David, and Alice, with a cameo from Niles. It’s also set in Boston.

I think each season’s been getting better and better. It’s a show that made no apologies about wearing its heart on its sleeve and I absolutely adored it for that reason. It took Troi’s advice to Data “that emotions aren’t good or bad; it’s what you do with them that counts” and showed how empathy is the absolutely…

There are genres called howcatchem’s, such as Columbo and Poker Face, you know.

How dare characters have emotions.

Q was pretty clear that the word “death” was a metaphor that made the experience more relatable to Picard.  Q was heading into some unknown form of existence that would find everything he knew shorn from him.  That’s death as far as we know it, but for all we know, it’s similar to Kelpien vaharai, except that you…

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The filmmaking process is so collaborative that no one part of the process is as dominant as you’re attributing to the script. That’s the rough draft of the film, and each successive part of the process is another draft, from preproduction and table work to the production itself to the editing process. You’re right…

Why would someone eat indoors in a restaurant?

I keep saying that! They should have made her part of the team, including her on the mission to 1885, ESPECIALLY since they recast her anyway. If they went to the trouble of finding someone new, they could have made sure to give that person more to do. She was basically just there to faint. All they could think to do…

The ad’s not about you, unless you’re an oil company or have the means to uphold the structures that allow oil companies to exist.

That’s literally the point of representation, though.  It’s to have cishet white men engage with films outside their identity, as pretty much anyone who isn’t a cishet white man has had to do for the entirety of film history.

Critics of the Roger Ebert school already grade based on the degree to which a movie succeeds at its goals, such as whether or not a movie is fun, regardless of Cahiers du Cinema-style analysis. The point of professional critics is for detailed, exhaustive, and articulate analysis of the high and low brow, and…

I went to the Turner Classic Movies film festival this past spring and one of the movies playing was The Last of Sheila, which Johnson cites as one of the influences on Knives Out. This looks like it’s much more directly influenced by that film. It was one of my favorite films from the festival, so I showed it to…