I have. I used to be a big Crichton fan (before his anti-environmental State of Fear, although in hindsight, Rising Sun, about how the Japanese are out to get us, and Disclosure, about how sexual harassment accusations are made by women who are are just angry at being spurned by attractive men, should have told me…

Entertainment is different because thousands of talented and qualified hopefuls are competing for jobs that get handed to nepo kids who are mostly rich kids and spoiled talentless brats.

I don’t much mind the nepo baby thing or the debate around it. But when I hear/see the term, Emma Roberts is exactly the type of person that comes to mind. I’ve seen her in a few things and she’s...not good. It’s pretty clear she gets work because of her connections, not her talent. Now there’s been others like her…

What’s a little ridiculous about this specific callout is that Clooney DID get shit-talked about his connections. But it was, you know, 30 fucking years ago or more. I get her point but she really should have chosen an example from THIS era, not the release of Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes.

Emma Roberts doesn’t have to prove herself “more.”  She’s a middling actress with a solid career based on looks and connections.  She’s skated by on being just good enough and will continue to do so for the rest of her career. 

It’s a healthy perspective and hopefully he continues to get better physically and mentally.

The “Well, I attended Juliard...” speech in the original is so inspired and was almost entirely ad-libbed. Keaton designed a lot of the makeup look himself. He really created this character and I can see how it would be odd to have this weird ghost creep turned into endless kids toys and a cartoon. I had forgotten the…

i think he’s better in american hustle or hurt locker, personally.

There is a distinct lack of Mr. Mom Merchandising in this world.

When that Batman movie was made, Batman had already been a toy for decades. Keaton knew he was playing a toy.

Biopics are definitely a toss up in quality, it's why I tend to avoid them.

It doesn’t even seem like a trend; fluff documentaries have been around since...documentaries. Behind the Music was rarely revelatory so much as a quick-bite collection of known facts signed off upon by the (surviving) band members.

Furiosa is great: Another deeply enjoyable expression of director George Miller’s central cinematic thesis that sometimes you just need to make a movie about fucked-up people in fucked-up cars doing awesome, fucked-up shit. We don’t understand the people who refuse to go see it

Every other movie being a sequel is pretty par for the course for Pixar of the past 15 years. Their 2001-2009 run of uniformly worthwhile original films is an extraordinary outlier in the history of all movie studios. I don’t love it, but if they have to crank out a Monsters University so they can roll the dice on…

...what is this article? Of Pixar’s 28 films, 9 are sequels; that’s a third of ‘em. Looking at the roster, the bulk of the sequels came between 2010 and 2019 (which makes sense based on the age of the studio and the production timeline), followed by a spate of original stories whose release were hamstrung by the globa…

I always push back at this; lots of stuff in season 5 isn’t from the book (and what is from books 4 and 5 improves on them), season 6 is all outline stuff and is good. The show drops with 7 and 8, when B&W have one foot out the door.

Can’t believe it took me this long to say it but: what a hack. First and foremost, adaptation is inherently an act of change; changing the medium of the story doesn’t just involve changing the shape of a story, it demands it. You’re a lot more likely to dash yourself against the rocks hewing too faithfully to the…

I thought he meant The Black Keys were on a Tinder date and maybe that’s why the show was so unimpressive.

It’s very chicken-egg to me, in the sense that the Black Keys are known and long-lived enough that you could fill an arena off $30 tickets, but not $200 ones.

Have just began learning this yesterday after reading the comments to his obit. What a bummer.