I once gave serious thought to renting a room in an apartment where the room was obviously a walk-in closet with a cot. That wasn’t what bothered me, though, it was the fact that there was a window that went from the living room into the closet. A full-on double-paned window with a latch. The least disturbing…

So hyped for this! I already got tickets for behind the gym at 4:30.

The seventies was kind of a golden age, though. It produced gems like Alice in Wonderland, after all. Nowadays, your choices are basically just someone masturbating or someone accidentally dropping their dick into their sister-mom.

I hate that I had to change my phone settings just to log in to like this comment.

“Jake shuffled from classroom to lockers to home each day. He once indifferently passed future prom queen Amanda in the hallway while on his way to the cafeteria, where he usually chose an empty table without giving it much thought. His B average got him into a middling state school, where he had his first kiss and…

he can go on dates (and dating apps apparently set to “both men and women”) but he can’t enjoy the music of the modern era?

That was my issue too. He’s always pretty explicit in his preference for shitty characters, but that’s his only film that features them exclusively.

That was basically Truffaut’s criticism of war films: That you can’t make a truly anti-war film, because the medium inherently glamorizes its subject matter. 

The same RoboCop where the day is saved by a kindly elder CEO firing one bad apple and where the good guys and bad guys are pretty clearly defined by “good guys” and “evil sadist villains”?

I always thought the ambiguity was the point. Tarantino isn’t exactly synonymous with cinéma-vérité. There isn’t a hidden resolution waiting to be discovered by in the ether, there’s no answer because the director chose to cut away without giving one. It establishes the directorial control that justifies the…

I have not watched the extended cut of Hateful Eight, because I don’t want to. That said, I would watch the shit out of an extended cut of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It’s the closest film he’s gotten to Jackie Brown quality in a long time.

I’ve only seen him in The Scorpion King and Fighting With My Family. In the latter, I was still turning off the sex offender alarms that go off whenever I see Vince Vaughn, so I can’t say that I had a genuine reaction to him, but I do remember thinking “this is a man who needs me to think he’s a normal, chill dude,…

As a holder of a fancy degree in Middle Eastern Studies whose concentration was in Iran and Central Asia, I wouldn’t personally use Middle Eastern as a descriptor for anything (West(ern) Asia is the preferred term). Generally speaking, no, you wouldn’t include Afghanistan as part of the Middle East, but you would…

I saw this in the theater before the pandemic, and I thought it was wonderful. Say what you will about Hollywood pairing old men with young women, but it was clear that Audrey was enthralled to be there with Astaire, who, even at nearly 60, is an unparalleled screen dancer. And Kay Thompson, the author of Eloise?…

I made it through about fifteen minutes of the documentary before giving up out of boredom. Does anyone find this story even half as compelling as production companies and media outlets find this story? Some libertarian fuckwits who are living indictments of the federal tax system gave a huckster with a stupid idea a…

When I was about five, I was playing under a table covered by a table cloth. After a few minutes, I got scared that I would be abandoned, so ran out and grabbed my mom’s leg. The leg actually belonged to a very hairy guy in shorts.

They could have named it Wuhl Street. Robert Wuhl is literally right there, they just built a wuhl around the Arli$$ set when it was canceled. He doesn’t even know he’s not getting paid!

Ah, white boy summer, when the first Chad/et cracks open a Natty Light and the scent of Axe and GHB gently glides over the pontoon kegger.

Well, that’s not entirely true, sometimes the Newswires are just paid promotions. 

When it was Richard E. Grant’s turn, the Gosford Park actor went for the typical audience Q&A move