Look at me with a straight face and tell me Pan’s Labyrinth isn’t good.

“The level of faithfulness on display here is actually so high, in fact, that it’s not clear who showrunner Craig Mazin is necessarily making this series for”

Mullholland Drive is...fine. But top 10 all time is hilarious to me. I guess we just ignore the at time bad tv movie acting and appearance? Or the weird asides that go nowhere? Put it on the list, but 100th is the only place I’d put it as a “ok, watch this movie...it’s interesting...”. Putting it top 10 is going to…

My take aways

I like a lot of long, slow arthouse movies. JD is so aggressively unfriendly and borderline unwatchable for casuals that calling it the best movie of all time suggests a pretty clear philosophical position.  And that position is that film’s highest goal is to be almost exclusively appealing to critics and wannabes.

Juries exist because judges can be biased or bought. The jury system has been in the English criminal system for something like 1200 years. It is the worst system except for all the others.

I’m continually surprised we ever get unanimous decisions in trials. Have you guys met Americans these days? 

Call me old fashioned, but I actually don’t think it’s unreasonable to not prioritize the opinion of a 14, 15, 16 year old in a professional environment, even if that teenager has as much experience as an older worker.

I’m sure it was frustrating to her, but it’s not surprising a roomful of adults wouldn’t be looking for creative input from a 14 year-old.  

Shatner rode the coattail of an unprecedented kind of fandom to reach his level of fame. Credit where credit is due, but Shatner owes as much to Trek as anyone. The rest of them all know or knew it; Shatner never seemed to have received the subspace message.

It’s clear Lucia is playing Albie. If her “pimp” was real, he already would have visited broke-ass Cameron. Also, during the “pimp” scene, Albie remarks that they walked far out of their way that evening, making it pretty clear that the rendezvous was preplanned.

It’s not like she tweeted this out unprompted. Interviewers could stop putting people on the spot, asking what they think about dumb things other people have said. And news aggregators could stop amplifying their answers.

The moment she shows Harper a photo of her kids on her phone (while claiming to be looking to show off “her trainer”) felt particularly calculated in its ditziness, almost as if she knew what she was doing, telling Harper in no uncertain terms why she stayed with Cameron

How are so many people bad at understanding a joke?!? The brilliancy of the joke’s premise isn’t about antisemitism it’s about how stereotyping groups is wrong. This issue isn’t even about Chappelle it’s about peoples dog whistles and only what they want to hear. 

...yeah, while I generally try to avoid commentary on lawsuits and the like, given how they can frequently lean heavily on legal technicalities and I don’t have any skin in the game anyway...

“If you didn’t know crypto was a Ponzi scheme after all this time, then you are an idiot.”

I’m sorry. If you didn’t know crypto was a Ponzi scheme after all this time, then you are an idiot. And as far as I know, the courts generally don’t provide relief from your own stupidity.

This needed to be a video.

It’s almost like there’s a contingent of vocal Twitter activists who are ready to condemn any and everything he says based not on the content of his material but because he said something they didn’t like about transgender people months ago?

He didn’t say Jewish people control Hollywood, he said he could understand why some people might think that. “There’s also a lot of Black people in Ferguson, Missouri, but that don’t mean they run the place.”