I actually had to leave a FB mom group I’m in over this. They were talking about some period products maybe? I can’t remember the exact product, but on the box it mentioned like “people who menstruate” or something, and some of those women were PISSED. Like I WANT TO JUST BE CALLED A WOMAN, I’M A WOMAN, NOT A PERSON…

C’mon, this is a pop culture website that landed a decent-length interview with the producer and star of a movie that is definitely in the conversation for more than just how funny (or not, TBD) it is.  We should be applauding this shit.

I’ve never understood Bertolucci’s explanation that he wanted to capture Maria Schneider’s “authentic surprise and horror” during the rape scene. There’s filming an actor while she’s acting on the one hand and then there’s filming someone’s authentic surprise and horror at being sexually assaulted on the other. He and…

Fire Island represents so much progress! In that gay men can have utterly mediocre and instantly forgettable comedies, too.

I’m willing to cut Wilde a lot of slack because a lot of what she’s been accused of, are things that tons of male directors have done.

I always get sad when I see people starring these kinds of comments.  

Oh look, sometimes war and the people who sell weapons are morally grey. They even sell weapons to both sides, those bounders! Who would have thought it?

The amount of writing about this thing isn’t justified by the fairly bland movie. Good lord, wouldn’t it be neat to ACTUALLY get subversive, clever SF/fantasy.

Last Jedi sucked and Rian Johnson is a fat faced idiot.

I absolutely despised Rian Johnson’s film and hated it more than any of the other 20 to 30 films I saw at the movies that year.

It was one of the worst things done to a property in recent memory. He swung big by changing characters established personalities and behaviors. IE what if the next Indiana Jones he SELLS artifacts because he has become jaded over time, the next Bond He has left the service to be a for hire merc and given up saving…

I just thought the core of The Last Jedi was a poor man’s remake of the first Battlestar Galactica episode ‘33'. Given that it was over 13 years older than TLJ and made on a TV budget probably 50 to 100 times less than this movie was even more baffling to me.

Subverting expectations is a pointless and empty exercise if it is not in the service of story, or any larger theme. In fairness to Rian, TLJ is just part of a massive cautionary tale on what happens when you commit to making three movies without any story outline. 

Fiona Apple is very protective of her music.

I believe the creative staff have said the sitcom world applies to men who don’t have to live with the consequences of their actions. That’s why Neil and Kevin’s father were in that world in the first season, even when Kevin wasn’t present. It takes Neil getting bottled to bring him out of that, because he is facing…

I’m guessing at the motivations of the writers, but my guess is that they don’t show Kevin outside of the sitcom world because that’s what a lot of abused women suffer with. Their abuser only shows themselves to her and most people around them either don’t see it or choose not to see any of that behavior.

I wish the show would delve into the financials more because in my opinion Kevin is engaging financial abuse and I do think it premeditated on a certain level because it isn’t played off as shopping addiction.

“Why doesn’t she just leave?”

That would be interesting. He was my favorite comedian for a long time so when the story broke I was pretty upset as a fan. When he started testing the waters by doing small standup shows again I was interested, I wanted him to be redeemed. I naively thought he was going to do some redemptive standup about his…

You know, there is an interesting documentary that could be made from this that explores the effectiveness of MeToo, the myth of cancel culture, and how the makeup of CK’s audience shifted more to the right when he returned. But this sounds like they’re going for an inspirational comeback story that’s borderline…