I didn’t love the monster, but the tension is fantastic. And there’s one cringe-inducing gory scene. It’s a little like The Thing on a boat.

I think the fish out of water trope in horror is so popular because most people live somewhere in the middle. I spent the first half of my life on a farm and the second in the middle of a big city, and I hear the fears from friends newer and old all the time, and it’s pretty amusing. Most people in big cities and…

“It’s a narrative trope more than a political viewpoint, and like any trope it takes on a certain meaning when it’s deployed thoughtlessly.”

Of all the annoying traits displayed by progressives (Disclaimer: I am one) in their never-ending quest to shoot themselves in the foot, none are quite so annoying as these f**king word games.

Because, Democrats in power don’t want those things either.  They’re all bought and paid for by the 1%.  The greatest lie our government ever sold us was that it’s Right vs. Left.  It’s not.  It’s the top 1% vs. everyone else. 

I choose to believe that she’s spent her entire life wandering aimlessly around rural Texas on foot going “fuck, I know it was around here somewhere”.

It just shows that they’re nationalists, not patriots. Patriots can love their country but recognize its flaws. Patriots want to make their country a better place, which involves admitting it’s not already a perfect place.

I blame the timing too. Did we really need a show right now about a massive segment of the population dying off in the aftermath of Thanos wiping out half of all life on the planet? Just seemed crass.

The Honeymooners aired in the 50s. It was absolutely a show about friendships. Or if that’s too far back, Seinfeld debuted in the 80s. This is a bit like the time a TV critic claimed that Roseanne was the first blue-collar main character in television.

I mind very much the superficial social commentary. It just wastes screen time and effort that could go into better supporting other story elements. Don’t half-ass it. These assholes could learn a thing or two from the brilliant Machete. (The first one. Machete Kills is awful trash that somehow misses the point of its…

True, I guess there’s a Cameron Clause in this case.

You sly fox! Definitive proof that this didn’t happen and racism doesn’t exist. CRT Clinton emails pizza basement joerogan micropenis, indeed.

I know I’m repeating myself but suggesting a town that went under 90 years ago is the result of late-stage capitalism is so stupid as to be straight-up insulting. I’d like to have seen this writer patting himself on the back while simultaneously sucking his own dick.

We’re also seeing the coming of age of filmmakers who are so thoroughly steeped in a specific political worldview that has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer that backgrounding their social commentary is no longer sufficient.

Olwen Fouere was also in Sea Fever, which is worth checking out.

Literally all I know about this film is that it's about a bunch of dudes seeking to cancel leather face. Because like we just like heard that celebrities are being cancelled and like cancel culture is like when you say that like murder is bad, yea? 

Fibre I’m ok with since Wordle (and the NYT) use American English (see the humor/humour issue a week or two ago), so technically it shouldn’t be a word. Pupal and agora I’d definitely have kept, though.

As long as they show the guy shooting bees out of his hands at people, they’ll have done their jobs.

Technically, wasn’t this genre created by two non-Black non-women - Robert Griffard and Howard Adler - when they gave us the TV flop Going Places in 1990?