So I’ve been doing a *lot* of thinking about these specific issues in these COVID times for complicated reasons, but I think at the root of literally everything is this basic fundamental truth: You will fuck up as a parent in some way. And when your kid figures out how, whether at 17 or 37, or at several different…

I think the big secret is Spielberg (and other great genre directors) know the difference between the plot of a film and what the film is about. The plot of ET involves a lost alien but it’s *about* those sad, lonely, confusing corners of childhood. And man, it nails the feeling of being a kid. Both in the universal…

This is honestly the most baffled I’ve been by a TV show. The voice over is a pretty major tell that he is still alive, aside from him being a main character. But I can’t tell at all if the other characters are supposed to know it. If they don’t, they’ve been concerningly chill about their very good friend being…

Archie had this moment where he looked genuinely pleased to see him before he remembered the whole deal and I did wonder if that was KJ Apa pleased to see his bro or an intentional acting choice. It was cute even if it made no sense, so I get why they kept it either way. 

I’m admittedly being a bit of a dick here, but it is *possible* that a segment of the potential audience has been turned off or burned by DC outings too many times to bother and the segment that is all in may not be interested in this kind of Harley Quinn movie.

She was also doing something that I am very, very, very guilty of which is cutting to the end in your mind before you’ve even started. She couldn’t write because she was obsessed with the outcome of it being a VERY VERY IMPORTANT BOOK THAT CHANGES THE CONVERSATION FOR WOMEN EVERYWHERE and so was measuring everything…

In the scenes where Eleanor was making peace with Chidi leaving my husband was like, that sucks. That is the worst part of real life, and you have to keep doing it over and over again here?

This show is way weirder than Sabrina. Sabrina is about Satan, which is unusual, but pretty consistent in it being about Satan and associated metaphors. Riverdale is 98 unrelated things simultaneously. Nothing is a metaphor. Sex is sex. A rocket is a rocket. If you are haunted by the death of your twin brother it is…

That exact line reading is burned so clearly in my memory. It was an awakening of sorts. 

I admit I have been a dick when it comes to my private thoughts and reactions to people struggling with their weight in the past. And still am sometimes. But Lizzo is probably one of the best case studies I have ever seen when it comes to disproving the “put down the fork” or “just jog a little” knee-jerk reaction…

I had a bigger problem letting go of the fact that they got pregnant. Yes, I know people have needs but if there was ever a time to get a little adventurous sexually, the time when aliens will eat whatever screaming offspring you produce with your vanilla missionary love making is it. Pay some attentions to the…

Ooooh! With Lea Thompson as Marmee! I didn’t know this existed but had a feeling that Hillary Duff would be involved somehow. This is better.

I think the best case this film makes for its existence is the time spent on the March sisters who are not Katherine Hepburn or Winona Ryder. It makes complete sense to tighten and focus the narrative on Jo, and to cast your biggest star in the role. But as we’ve already had a couple of deep dives into her character…

Interpreting The Last Jedi as saying “nothing matters” is also really disheartening, even though I’ve seen that stated so often it’s practically cannon. The Last Jedi is not nihilistic by any means. It never claimed nothing matters. It suggests that dogma, tribalism and gatekeeping don’t matter. And that maybe what’s…

For real though. The idea of immortal space goblin Palpatine fucking or being concerned with fucking or procreation in any way makes no sense. And I guess Sith juju just skips a generation? Or something? 

You just reminded me there was a time where Broadway was a little Pixar-esque in it’s story development. But what if cats had hang ups and anxieties? What if TRAINS? What if the story of Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors from the Bible but like, really get into the mind of the coat. Really give the coat a moment.

I feel like no matter what your feeling is on any of these movies, we all fall into the same trap, which is taking them as a personal attack. Kylo pieces his helmet back together after smashing it? It’s not That Progress Isn’t Linear, but that They Are Retconning The One I Liked!

The birth records in Riverdale are truly below book keeping standards.

I did not envy film critics having to tackle this movie. Is it good? I honestly have no idea. It probably isn’t by most accepted film criticism metrics. It doesn’t even make that much sense. Which is what Scorsese is getting at, I believe.

For people of a certain age who grew up in a very particular part of the country, he is what our internal monologue sounds like. He is our psychological baggage made flesh.