While that’s a bit of an overstatement, horror is a genre deeply linked with the concept of “the other,” meaning that issues of race, religion and sexuality are often integral elements of the genre’s themes and subtext. A number of important early genre filmmakers were gay, and their experiences would inform the work…

I just spent the weekend on short film shoot with two child actors, ages 8 and 12, and a couple of months ago was on a shoot with a 13 year old. I’ve never directed children (I was DP on both of these shoots), but I was very careful to observe how the directors worked with them, and I can assure you, all three…

You recognize that in this case the error was intentional, right?

“Literally” having a secondary non-literal meaning as “not literally” is one of the most gloriously twisted things ever to happen to language. And it’s not like it obfuscates anything; the meaning is always clear from context.

Yup! And when we cease to be critical in our relationship with art, we both close ourselves off from much of the enjoyment it has to offer, and open ourselves up all the more to the influence of propaganda.

I’ve seen people claiming that the cop checking his phone was Officer Ruiz, but I haven’t seen that confirmed anywhere, and based on the photos I’ve seen of Ruiz it doesn’t look like him to me. I could certainly be mistaken, of course.

My suspicion is that he fully comprehended her point (well before she made it), but he doesn’t care, and his goal was to put on a show for the benefit of people who would not comprehend her point.

You could not be more right about Aliens. Thank you for saving me the trouble of saying it. :-)

I was positing Singer more as a kind of a step in-between Jackson/Raimi and Nolan, more comparable to the latter, but I seem to have failed to express any of that. :-)

Bryan Singer on X-Men was also a notable step in this trend.

Pine did ultimately prove that he was capable of playing a decent Kirk, he just waited until Wonder Woman to do it.

But sometimes it is interesting to examine an existing story through a different lens.

In my experience, most Americans also use the “ae” spelling. It’s far more aesthetically pleasing.

And I do not trust Elon Musk to comment meaningfully on the aesthetics of anything.

And I was just thinking about this episode last night, after reading a John Waters interview about his love for The Wizard of Oz, in which he talked about Margaret Hamilton’s long-term embrace of the WWW role.

I don’t understand why “stable demeanor/emotional state” would make you think “telling the truth,” under the circumstances; if anything, it would make me think, “practiced liar.”

Gonzo was a Dave Goelz character, not Frank Oz.

The difference being that, on the whole, The Waitresses still f’ing ruled.

You know, they mean that it’s bad to, like, be aware of things, I guess?

It is not a matter of whether you have kids or not. I am a childless 43 year old, and that doesn’t stop me from having a strong and lasting emotional response to the slaughter of children.

I thought about it immediately. Not everyone will make the same associations, but I think it’s a safe bet that this is an association a lot of people have made.