FUCK yes. Whatever the hell Villeneuve did to help him figure out his character in Blade Runner 2049 made me pull a complete 180 on him as an actor - truly one of the high points of a movie full of extreme highs - so assuming that dynamic remains the same, goddamn are we in for a treat with this version of Dune.

I saw the movie in a free sneak preview shortly before it came out (although after the whole Mortensen saying the N-word incident) and while I thought it was a perfectly amiable movie that did have good intentions (although by no means an award movie), there were also moments where I was internally going “no, no, no.”…

I saw Green Book after learning that the white guy’s son wrote the book and after a reading a lot of criticism that it’s from the white guy’s perspective/it’s not woke enough/etc. and it really influenced how I saw the film.

I honestly couldn’t decide whether they were voting for the movie, or just Queen. I kind of think it was Queen. Which would make a warped kind of sense, since Queen was AAA+ band, and those movies were all B+, at the most generous estimate.

There is NO WAY IN HELL Bohemian Rhapsody will be nominated for anything with the Oscars. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association always focuses on one, weird choice for awards. And, for whatever reason, the highly mediocre Bohemian Rhapsody won for Best Drama. (Same with that horribly titled “The Komnsky Method” for…

Why does The Kominsky Method, a show I’ve barely heard of, keep beating the amazing The Good Place? That’s not a snide rhetorical question - there’s so much TV it’s hard to keep track. Is this a show I have to watch now? If it’s reallly that great, good. But if it’s just good, and upstaging better shows, not great.

Most of the jokes felt a bit flat, but the last bit Oh delivered was genuinely heartfelt. Good for her and every other POC nominee in the audience.

Disco, like the Force, will never die.

That kind of behavior reaches peak ludicrous with the She-Ra controversy, which is adult men in their forties huffing and puffing that the heroine of a rebooted ‘80s show aimed mainly at preteen girls has been desexualized and this amounts to “political correctness.”

I recently saw Natalie Portman asked on TV about the Jar Jar Binks character, and all she would say is that Ahmed Best was a lovely person and a dear friend and she wouldn’t listen to any criticism of him. I admired that. I’m not a Jar Jar fan at all, and I have never re-watched The Phantom Menace since I first saw it…

The psychotic overreaction to Phantom Menace — a children’s fantasy movie about space wizards — is not the dumbest thing that has happened in my lifetime, but in retrospect it was a harbinger of monumentally stupid shit to come.

Thanx for doing this heavy lifting. Personally, even some of the comments on these stories about him are triggering.

if the movie came out in ‘73, it must have been being written and in pre-pro in like ‘70 or ‘71... that’s less than 10 years after the movie takes place. that’s like writing a nostalgia movie now about the summer of 2011... the heady days when Drive was in theaters and Nicki Minaj was on the radio

Yes, and the final stage: “The FBI didn’t warn us that was illegal!”

Ah, the Giuliani Defense.

Step 1: “My client committed no crime.”
Step 2: “What my client did was not a crime.”
Step 3: “Who among us hasn’t committed a crime?” 

Apparently Cally from Battlestar Galactica was in this cult too.

Hit menopause. *rimshot*

The Love Guru was supposed to be Mike Meyer’s comeback after having been away for a bunch of years. The fact that it was so bad, and the fact that comedy had changed so much in just those few years, is what killed his career for good.

Which parts are Spacey? Which parts Underwood? They blended the two into an incoherent rat king.

AND it ends with the Dramatic Chipmunk sting? WTF

This is just sad.