“(kind of gratuitously violent at the end, but hey)”

“One time, ‘k see, one time this Korean cop had to solve a murder and a pretty girl was staring at him, and she stared and stared and stared and then he used technology like Google and there was some erotic tension and then they figured out that Randy Beaman actually killed all her husbands...’k bye!”

But that’s like saying Alain Resnais’ Last Year At Marienbad is about a man and woman who meet at a hotel.

Looking younger than her age? She'd always looked older than her age til she hit her 30s.

Thank you for not making this a slideshow!

Your description of her review sounds more nuanced while being more concise than her actual review. To me it read like she takes the most issue with the central thesis that the obese serve as some kind of empathy balloon for others to take their suffering out on. If that’s indeed what the movie is about... yikes, no…

Goddamn is this show ever great. It’s reminding me a bit about the early 70s cinema turn to grit and antiheroes and the whole embrace of moral ambiguity. I particularly loved how, during the robbery, the Rebels haughtily self-justify themselves while kidnapping a relatively innocent woman and her son, basically…

Katie Rife (whose podcast(s) I used to regularly listen to, starting at Sound On Sight, briefly renamed to PopOptiq) doesn’t seem to realize that this was inspired by Hunter’s personal experience, rather than him “paternalistically guessing” about other people.

Yeah, there’s a substantial difference between “your doctor really wants you to cut out soda” and “your food is delivered because getting through doors and into a car is a long, arduous and painful process.”

But it was written by an obese person, right? It’s right there in the post. 

It worked for the character, though. I think the character had just graduated college, so she was presumably 22, and she wasn’t so much a disillusioned wife so much as she was a young person starting out and having no clue what to do with life and feeling like she had already set herself on a path without having…

That’s one of Sofia’s biggest hits. Looks like her casting decision worked out very well, however unrealistic.

Louis Anderson is shaking his fist from heaven.

I love Lost in Translation but yeah, looking back at it now, Johansson was only 18 years old when it was made and yet she’s playing a disillusioned wife already (and yes, there’s also that opening close-up shot of her ass). I’m not sure why Sofia Coppola felt the need to cast someone THAT young for the role.

If they had lived, Chris Farley or Ron Lester would’ve been great candidates for this part.

Yes. It is. This is G/O media now. It’s no longer a source of smart, urbane, original thinking or incisive, newsworthy reporting. It’s a content mill. At least in part.

Like when people say “one-hit wonder” like it’s derogatory. It’s one more than most of us get.

Is this really an article about an interview with this site that was posted yesterday?

Countless aspiring actresses can only dream of getting typecast.