i think it’s a little off to view going to the movies as financial support and not simply seeing a movie you want to see.

I finally saw No Way Home the other night. It was a lot of fun, but I found myself really irritated at Strange. He agrees to modify the memory of everyone in the world to help a teenager get into college; starts casting the spell without discussing the parameters with said teenager; then repeatedly blames the kid when…

Not really bagging on this movie. But Everything Everywhere All At Once is out there, has a multiverse storyline and it’s fucking good.

Found the boomer thread

Ooh, this is the first good thing I’ve heard about Donda, I might actually give it a listen now. Critics seem unable to focus on anything other than Kanye’s personality at the moment, which makes it hard to gauge whether his work has actually declined in quality, or if he’s just been acting like an asshole.

Buscemi’s character in Ghost World is a social malcontent who forges a bond with a like-minded teenage girl who sleeps with him in a moment of desperation and immediately/obviously regrets it deeply. The character ends the movie in therapy, living with his mother, very likely lonelier than ever. If Zwigoff was trying…

Very well put. It’s a really beautiful work and one that resonates with me very deeply.

I like Phantom Thread a whole lot but putting it at number one seems insane to me.

For all the analysis and scholarship written about The Master, I think “Man wants to be saved. Man wants to save others. They meet. They fall in love. Man realizes he can’t be saved. Man returns to the beginning” might just be the simplest and most beautiful explanation 0f the movie I’ve read. So thanks for giving me…

Seriously … I’m not a huge rap fan, but 808s and YEEZUS are both thrilling, fascinating albums. And obviously enough been written (correctly) and My Beautiful …

*shrug* I don’t know. I like it a lot—give or take a “Jail Pt. 2.” Hopefully, we’ll get a Pablo-esque revision, but if we don’t, I still think there’s a lot to love about Donda. 

Then there’s my school of thought, which is that sunshine can be a great disinfectant, but that the gentle, flattering lighting of a private interview room on The Today Show simply doesn’t provide it. The problem isn’t that it’s being done at all, but that it isn’t being done well.

This is a departure that would hurt. Kenan Thompson is one of the real unsung heroes of SNL. He’s probably the best support player on the show.

You know how when you were in high school or college and you made fun of the theater kids because they were hyper annoying, loud, and self-important, but you were relatively close with someone who directed a one act play, and so you went to its opening night to be a good sport, but at the end of it you felt cheated…

Hot take - the original years are overly romanticized and not that exceptional.  They benefitted greatly from the novelty of the time.  The best writers of the show came in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  

This right here. Saturday Night Live has ALWAYS been 80% misses. You just don’t remember them 20 years later.

Yeah while I agree with Chase that SNL has been pretty crappy lately I think this is a case of a broken clock is right twice a day. I seem to recall Chase shitting on past seasons that many if not most of us would consider to be classic seasons.

I agree, that stuff from the first couple of casts might have been amusing to stoned or coked out people in the 70s

That probably isn’t why Chevy hates it though. They could be revolutionizing comedy and Chevy would hate it, because Chevy is a humorless asshole.

Speaking of Taylor, I loved how he was watching porn like it was any other TV show.