Those scenes are preceded by the river of corpses! I don’t know why that movie gets glossed over so much, it’s extraordinarily effective and incredibly awful and frightening. It just doesn’t have much of an ending (even with the “oh the kid survived!”). It is a RELENTLESS attack of darkness and set-pieces both very…

That part where he discovers the pictures doesn’t make much sense. Get Out is narratively almost perfect, but doesn’t he just...find the photos by noticing an open door? Is there any reason for it? He’s on his way out and the door is just there?

An absolutely minor complaint, but is there any setup-release to it other…

They wrote this in three weeks because they had writers block figuring out Miller’s Crossing. Doesn’t that seem like it should be backwards?

Instant Pots are amazing. You want meat that can absolutely pass for being in a slow cooker for 8 hours in FIFTEEN goddam minutes? Get an instant pot, toss the meat in, go to town. It is magic.

Most explicitly, at the very end! After the hail mary, they just chuckle it away, mention Gronk, mention the clock, have a second-long pause, and THEN say something about Philly winning. Just extremely slow and bored.

Great stuff here. It’s hard to get into the meaning of art when it is always changing, but I do feel like the organic process really had something vs digital. This isn’t the most original idea, but with film, you were literally capturing light in that moment, whereas with digital, if you capture it flat, you can…

A day late with this, but here’s some words that MLK wrote while in Jail after a bunch of White Pastors told him, hey, cool it maybe?

Black Rain isn’t, like ‘great’, or, ‘very good’ but man, is that a good looking movie of 80s/90s Japan at night, god-damn. Jan de Bont at peak de Bont.

Such a great moment. Her background and Snoke weren’t necessarily huge questions within the story itself, either. At least, not NEARLY as important as the fan base made them out to be. Within the universe, Snoke was just this bad guy who had force powers, done. Rey’s parents basically didn’t matter, because, of…

You can see how good he is compared to, say the guy who plays Monte Rissell and BTK. They have that intense, low burning psycho mood that’s, well, good, but doesn’t seem exceptionally lived in. Britton as Kemper just seems so comfortable, at ease. He’s so chatty, calm, at ease in the environment.

If you’ve seen many…

I read Mindhunter and John Douglas’ Crime Classification Manual in high school (and all of Douglas’ other books too in that whole morbid serial killer rush phase). Douglas references him constantly, and with good reason. Like you said, he’s both keenly self-aware and totally dispassionate about his crimes, while also…

Here’s an interview with actual Ed Kemper. This would have been after he’d been interviewed many, many times, so he’s more polished. He’s also kind of slim-looking for such an incredibly large guy, but otherwise, YIKES, that performance/writing/role makes the entire show worth it, full stop. It is completely…

Pretty amazing how much things changed under Woodrow Wilson, low-key second most influential president of the 20th Century.

Speaking as somebody who almost always finds villains more intesting/clever/better characters, man, that villain is GREAT, and truly evil, and you absolutely, positively, do not want him to survive.

Jesus, Miller, that’s a good point towards Richard Stark and Breaking Bad. That seems pretty clear in retrospect!

Although Walter White is a little...deeper than Richard Stark’s normal characters.

The, well, maybe not the *worst* thing about Todd, but a really upsetting thing, was his difficulty in explaining why it was a problem. Walt told him that no one could know or see them, and the kid saw them, so he shot the kid. He was just doing what Walt told him to do, he’s confused here, what did he do wrong, guys?

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This is the ONE thing that Republicans have. That one time some New Black Panthers were outside a polling station, before they were asked to leave, and then did. Parity for a few dozen white people being scared now equals out Jim Crow, poll taxing, literacy tests, and Trump calling for his supporters to being…

What happens in that scene? What is the context? It’s...Stan? And he goes int the house and then runs away?

I remember it being incredibly tense, much more than any other scene. Something about the slow, rotted slumping, thumping

Does ANYONE remember a scene from this where one of the gang (as a kid, AFTER they destroyed Clown Pennywise, but BEFORE they became adults) goes into a house and a lumbering, waterlogged, yellowed and decayed PW thumps down the stairs slowly, his once bright costume bloated, mossy, and filthy?

Did I dream this?