I feel like Spielberg has been in classic Spielbergian mode recently, between West Side Story and The Fabelmans, in a way he hasn’t really been since the ‘90s. 

It’s a movie about what happens to imaginary friends after their kids outgrow them, and the main imaginary friend is named Blue?

Weimar Germany issued legal, doctor signed passes for transvestites, that served as legal recognition of their gender transition and barred them from prosecution under anti-crossdressing laws. The Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft, operated by Magnus Hirschfield, operated one of the first and most important research…

I’m rewatching the original, and it’s absolutely soap opera-y. 

He absolutely has a chance of getting on the board. Last week he was endorsed by proxy group ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services) which boasts a 75% success rate in getting their picks onto boards, and today another very respected (among shareholders) proxy group, Egan-Jones, endorsed him as well. Unfortunately, a…

Bill Murray voiced Venkman in the 2009 Ghostbusters game, which could speak to already fading recalcitrance. 

Just looked it up, it does seem like it being said about Elvis predates the Gore Vidal comment about Capote. However, I’m seeing the attribution being either an unnamed “Hollywood cynic” in a 1978 Esquire magazine article, Peter Bogdanovich, or talent agent Sue Mengers.

Actually, I think it was painfully obvious what Don’t Look Up was satirizing. It’s the opposite problem where it had the subtlety of a brick.

American media loves to put out political satires that aren’t actually satirizing anything, they just have the tone of having  something important to say. See also: The Regime. 

The Brave and the Bold is going to have an older Batman and Damian as Robin. Gunn has also said the movie will introduce a full Batfamily. For all we know, Teen Titans is a prequel set before this, if it features Dick becoming Nightwing. 

See, this is why I’d be interested in the show too. And I’d be curious about how successful the show is as historical fiction, rather than just Biblical expansion. Because I think it’d be cooler to do both. But from what little I’ve seen, the show seems more interested in verisimilitude than in genuine history.

I really want to see a critical deep dive on this show and how it fits into the Christian media from a non-evangelical perspective. Like, it seems to be the most popular piece of Christian media, but nobody outside of Christians are interested in talking about it, they all focus on the God’s Not Dead freak shows. The…

“Good career move” was Gore Vidal’s reaction to the death of Truman Capote, I thought

This sounds like a more art-y take on Candle Cove

Because autistic coding for an adult is that they act like a child, and autistic coding for a child is that they act like a mini-adult. The shows are an exercise in caricature, and childish men and adultish children are both read as short hand for nerdy and neurodivergent in ways that are easy to laugh at. Hence,…

This is what I came to say too. Yeah, there’s stories in sports, the way there are stories in anything. But it’s the storytelling that people enjoy in scripted television and film. If you just watch a bit of sports, you’re not invested in the “characters” and there’s nothing on the field, pitch, court, etc. that’ll…

She’s probably going to go after Bill Burr and Pedro Pascal, if I had to guess. Bill Burr, who has made his fair share of questionable shock-jock statements as a comedian, and then Pedro Pascal who is an outspoken socialist and critic of US imperialism(his parents worked in the government of Salvador Allende and had…

I actually still really loved the game when I played it, the Seraphites thing only hit me replaying it, and is an unpleasant note in a game I otherwise like. But yeah, it makes me really wary of Druckmann over all from now on.

No, it isn’t on its face. But Neil Druckmann has said that the game was inspired by his brooding over the Israel-Palestine conflict. One of the sides, the WLF, is broadly humanized. The other side is a bloodthirsty superstitious fanatical cult known for homophobia and misogyny that reveals “the prophet”, that carries…

The Prophet wasn’t merey a fanatical cult leader, that came later. The info we get about her in the game is that she was a more peaceful, mellow, spiritual figure who was murdered by the WLF. The Seraphites were driven by desperation and retribution, which after their attacks on the WLF, motivates te WLF as well. The…