I’ll note again that Blackberry is easily the best of these product biopic movies, simply for having the guts to not just end at the high point of the product’s success but instead go all the way to the point where it irreparably ended. The final visual metaphor for the company hitting rock bottom, which has been…

I have no skin in this game, in terms of her work. I watched the first movie in a theatre, at a company event, and thought it was fine for kids. (I was out of the target demo by that point.) I never read the books.

It’s almost shocking how well-adjusted the adults the Harry Potter child stars grew up to be are, even beyond the “big 3" of Daniel, Emma and Rupert.

I don’t think it’s edgy to criticize a cult. People say and do awful things in the name of religion every day. And fuck those people, right? Right?

I’ve read two versions. Narratively, it’s somehow simultaneously disjointed and overindulgent dogshit. It’s a massive, convoluted fucking lore dump that’d make Tetsuo Nomura blush.

America is weird that way. People freaked out when Dawkins published “The God Delusion” as if it was some weird position to question religion. Meanwhile people in Europe were like “Didn’t Bertrand Russell write basically the same thing in ‘Why I am not a Christian’ about a century ago?”

I am an atheist and am excited to learn that, apparently, it now qualifies me as an “edgelord” as well. I also got whiplash from the way this article seemed to keep pivoting back and forth on whether the author thought it was the worst take, a legit take, a weird take, etc. 

It’s ‘contrarian’ and ‘edgelord’ to champion critical thinking skills now? Sounds like something a rib bone would say.

I’m sorry, but what makes his take “edgelord”? Are all atheist takes edgelord?

Red Notice
Red One
Red Notice 2
Red Adam
The Big Red One 2: Another Big Red One
Clifford 2: The Bigger, Redder Dog
Red 3: Red to Rights
Red Dragon (reboot with Duane Johnson as Hannibal Lecter)
The Thin Red Line 2: Even Thinner and More Red
Red Light, Green Light: The Motion Picture
Passenger 58: Always Bet On Red
Big Red…

I’m reminded of an old quote from Charlton Heston (and I’m paraphrasing a bit here): “I never had any illusions about my ability as an actor, but I showed up sober & on time, had my lines memorized, I hit my marks, and I filled out a toga”.

It’s borderline refreshing to hear a story of a major Hollywood celebrity who’s just kinda shitty to work with. Like, not quietly racist / misogynitic / homophobic / transphobic, not a secret QAnon dipshit, not flexing his status for sexual favor, not an Armie Hammer-style sex cannibal. Just a chronically late dick, us…

It seems insane to me that there hasn’t been a successful trial win against Spacey. I worked as an assistant stage manager for six years in London (on fringe plays rather than West End shows) but even then many of the actors I worked with had Spacey stories, the majority of which were related to how turning down his…

fucking clickbait headline implying a voice actor had died

My first thought on reading the headline was “Why can’t you just die already?” 

When can we expect people to “grow up,” though? Taylor Swift is in her mid-30s, and a lot of her fans are the same age, and have been following her like a role model for their own lives. The culty zealots include post-collegiate working adults with daughters of their own. This isn’t naivete. These women are insane.…

Honestly? I don’t have a lot of quibbles with this list. Rearviewmirror is one of my favorite songs of all time, by any band, ever. But, I won’t deny Black’s absolute perfection.

Every right-wing blowhard says some variation of ‘If someone can say they’re a gender, then I’m x’ and think it’s the most mind-blowing, Voltairian, definitive takedown of modern gender ideas and the greatest piece of satire that the world has ever seen, when instead it merely demonstrates why there aren’t more…

I hope Michael Palin outlives them all.

A movie studio is spending $200M on a sequel to a movie that made over $1B? Stop the presses, I think we have the scoop of the year.