Yeah, that was a weird one.

Two hats is the new multiple popped collars.

Some of this is.. I don’t want to say generational but things have changed. Being “difficult to work with” is seen in the current era as a supremely negative thing and there’s not much tolerance for an eccentric individual who doesn’t collaborate well.

What boggles my mind is adults reacting to stuff like this by saying but Trump/Gaetz/whoever did worse shit than Smollett like that is some kind of an excuse for what he did

yes thats a terrible thing for a congressman to do.

‘You’re arresting me for murder? Jesus Christ, officer. So I killed one person. Ever heard of the war in Iraq? Get your priorities straight!’

The dude lied about what happened. He initiated a police investigation. He got found out and continued lying. He took this to trial, and he carried on lying to the judge and the jury, even in the face of video evidence proving he staged the attack. The sentence would’ve been nowhere near as harsh if he hadn’t stuck to…

Just because you’re a first time offender doesn’t mean there’d be no conviction, just likely a lesser sentence...
You seriously saying he shouldn’t be punished just because you think white people wouldn’t? If anything he has made it harder for real victims of racism to be believed.

“It’s also worth pointing out that McConaughey’s specific political beliefs are still… kind of vague.”

I have absolutely no opinion on this and I just wanted everybody to know that.

So many slo-mo shots of Uncle Ben’s pearls bouncing to the ground...

Birch, please.

If your phone rings, that’s Hollywood asking where to send the dumptruck full of money.

Um, Thora Birch? (2021) is an indie release about Birch’s personal assistant and his relationship with her on and off the set. Starring Birch as a fictionalized version (think Being John Malkovitch) of herself and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the assistant.

Of course we’re not worried about the plant exploding, don’t be ridiculous.

Alternate headline:  Dog Flies In Private Jet While Polar Bear Clings To Ice Chunk In The Arctic Ocean. 

I hear they have a mode of transportation unique to the galaxy in which inhabitants dance to provide locomotion to the vehicle.

Based on the reports, her issue was not with Feige, but with Disney itself, and apparently Feige was pissed at Disney for it getting to the point where she sued. So I could easily see her still being willing to work with Feige.

I did think it was kind of fascinating how The Shape of Water, because it was up against Call Me By Your Name, Get Out and Lady Bird, kind of became the “conventional,” boring choice in the various Oscar discourses going around at the time. Like, the number of critics whose tone suggested, “Oh, ho hum, once again the…

Guillermo del Toro is awesome, Cate Blanchett might be our greatest working actress and it looks like this is going to be suffused with Art Deco gorgeousness, so I am all in.