That’s the trepidatious territory I find myself in- Harry Potter means a lot to me, (mostly the books) and before JK put herself as the new face of trans bigotry I’d’ve hit the parks, buy silly trinkets, etc. Nowadays, I will still enjoy the books, and occasionally the films, but not in any way that will put money…

but I did spend $5 to see The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

This flub after flub of Covid-inspired drama makes me wonder if there has been or will be a swing-and-a-hit from Hollywood land. Death to 2020 was okay, I guess.

*CTRL-F and sees no mention of “Copolla family” in an article about Jason Schwartzman*

lol! Such a garbage film.

It was- Opus T. Penguin also called me out on that, earlier. It’s been near a decade since I read it, obviously I don’t have a great memory of Ultimatum!

Do you mean the Eli Roth joint Hostel? Because I very much want to forget Hostel.

I feel you- I work in an industrial area, and the amount of culture around pipelines is absurd. There’s businesses with “Build that Pipeline” in their yard, many brought out extremely political statements (read: xenophobic & specifically pro-Conservative) during the yellow vest protest, one business had Trump 2020…

lol, I try following the British standard as that’s considered the traditional choice, but I feel the pull of American English daily. The -ise and -ize is such a grey area, and my job is with a lot of US vendors (and our ERP system is based from US), so the dates are all MM/DD/YYYY, but the other half of the time our…

I heard Peter Thiel is already trying to get John Darnielle to file suit.

As an Albertan, this is reductive- at the provincial level, there’s a slew of premiers and their respective parties pushing conservative agendas in particularly resource-driven provinces. Outside Alberta, there is certainly rolling eyes in certain provinces, but that usually has more to do with the persecution complex…

TBH at a national level we’re almost purely driven by our natural resource industries- forestry, mining, oil; Alberta’s gov’t (and its dumbass ‘Energy War Room’) is just the loudest and most impractical voice, but even the Trudeau’s Liberal Party gets donkey-brained at the threat of something affecting our natural…

I think it’s a lot of him having grimy ass hair and being a long-faced boy.

If Jane-Luc speaks, you must. make. it. so.

lol, it is that for sure. I’m pretty sure it was Saw and Final Destination that kicked off the low brow horror craze in the 00's, wasn’t it?

The trailers have Rock chained up similar to Cary Elwes in the first film, with the saw, so I imagine that is pretty late in the film. There’s also clips of SLJ getting abducted, so I think it will be safe to assume his character doesn’t have a pretty end.

They draw a comparison to Seven, which makes me realize for the first time that Saw is just the franchisable version of Seven this whole time!

Are you self-aware enough to have intentionally complained about tokenism and “woke-ening” as well as Yi using buzzwords? Because that is exactly what you did.

For sure. And if someone has power over you and is saying they’re advocating to defend you and yours, you have to ask what do they get out of the solution they’re offering?

The feeling I got from the trailer was a revenge thriller with a light touch of the dark satire of Four Lions- ie. very empathetic yet a little silly personalities dealing with really dark material.