And that Secret Movie Club gets to continue special programming. I love what they’ve been doing at the Million Dollar Theater in downtown, but one of my all-time favorite movie-going experiences was catching almost every Godzilla Sunday matinee at the Vista as part of a special Secret Movie Club series back in 2019.…

And to be clear, QT is saying he is for those things in the right kind of theatre like the Alamo Drafthouse. 

CHEESE SAUCE WILL PREVAIL! 

He says he does like the Alamo Drafthouse, though.

...AND the Archlight was the most over-priced theatre chain in Los Angeles. I’m bummed to see the Cinerama Dome close, but good riddance to Archlight. Hopefully someone buys up that space and continues to use it as a movie house.

Were they able to bring back Ben Kingsley? Easily one of his greatest roles.

Wow, I completely forgot all the times Drew got married in The Drew Carey Show. I had remembered him being basically single with a few serious girlfriends which regularly became a seasonal thing. Even still, frequently marrying and divorcing women is not the family sitcom trope in the cross-hairs of Kevin Can F***…

“Yeah, I agree about lack of history, although I suppose that’s what you get when Lorne and NBC keep so much of the show under tight supervision.”

I don’t think I’ve seen that Strother Martin episode, but absolutely Malkovich and Buck Henry. Save for Walken, Hanks and Steve Martin, there’s very little sense of history with this list.

This does feel like a nuanced, grey situation, which also makes it far more fascinating and instructive. Fisher was a relatively unknown, struggling actor; it’s hard to fault him for doing something unethical, but that doesn’t make him blameless. It also appears he went into the role with a degree of seriousness,…

The notion that Steve Forbes was benign while Musk is malignant because of “personality” is peak petty-bourgeois, liberal idealism.

Surely, the least dangerous aspect of Musk’s power which threatens the planet is toxic fanbase; more like union-busting, supporting fascist coups in sovereign states, exploitation of workers and the natural environment are certainly much more concerning. We need a more materialist analysis than that.

I’m curious abut the business side of this heist. So Bautista is getting offered 50 million dollars to lead a crew to steal 200 million? So his cut is 25%? Seems very high. It looks like there’s five or six other people in the crew, so how much are they getting? How did all the weapons, ammo, vehicles, and tactical…

Damn, actually, Debbie giving up Franny to be raised by Ian and Mickey would have been brilliant, and actually may have been the closest thing to redemption possible for Debbie at this point. Of course, for the writers to get there, they would’ve had to set up Ian wanting a kid earlier than...this episode, Debbie to…

On Lip's seemingly incomprehensible change of heart about selling the family compound; one plausible explanation could be that, with Frank dead, he no longer feels the internal need to run away from property, and could maybe view the situation in a much more clear-eyed and objective way. But that, of course, would…

SO it seems as though Snyder, whom many on this site probably still consider some sort of cryptofascist, wanted to put out franchise epic which prominently centered a strong, Black lead protagonist, while Whedon, one-time paragon of white male “wokeness” even before the term came in usage, was charged with cutting…

Sounds about right. I would say I do enjoy June in stan mode better than June in self-serious mode, or way more than June in wallflower-mode. It's funny to say that a show that's been continuously in production for 10 years, 500+ episodes, is now finding a new rhythm.

Totally agree about June, she has much stronger and clearly distinct comedic voice now, over the last year or so, than before, when we would either get “I have no memory of watching this/I actually did not watch this” or “I hate everything about this,” but not much to say beyond that. Otherwise she would be more the…

I have tried going back to relisten to some old LPOTL eps, because it’s hard to find good paranormal casts with the right tone, and MAN are they painful! At worst, blatantly racist and misogynistic, and best just loud and cringey. I hope they’v e gotten better, but I doubt it.

This movie largely exists because of COVID, and the fact there is an already existing fan base, I guess you can call “toxic” for wanting something very passionately. I was surprised that they barely mentioned COVID, if at all, in the episode. The materialist explanation; the need to have a product to sell, there…