This BTW is a big reason I hate this award every single year.  Ripped from context, very few sex scenes are good.  That’s not to defend anything here specifically, but, like, the article knocks the Murakami one for sounding supremely unsexy -- which seems like exactly the point, if it was a nightmare!

They wrote a script based on Leonard’s Cuba Libre!  It’s floating around on the net if you search for it... project never came together, though.

Good God, I just looked this up on AirBnB and you ain’t kidding. He lives like 25 minutes from me and hosts rooms for $69/night.

Yeah, one of my biggest tips for people who wanna read more is to put the Kindle (or Scribd or whatever) app on your phone, load your books, and then when you’re in the waiting room or bored for 5 seconds, open that instead of Twitter. I still like to carry books around with me, but it’s nice to have a second option,…

I haven’t gotten to season 2, but I really liked season 1.  You’re right, it’s not capital-G Great, and it can fall into a lot of the prestige TV pitfalls (especially re its women characters).  But I can’t remember the last show that was as purely pulpy and entertaining as this is.

Two, I’m really not sure where you got this idea: “Who, having already been walked in on as they tidy up after a double murder, would leave their front door unlocked while they’re out dumping the bodies?”

IDK if you’re being deliberately obtuse, but his point is very clearly not about the sexualization of women, but about the combination of that with something more weirdly wholesome and homey like a TGI Friday’s.

Yet it turns out audiences weren’t the only ones frustrated by the creative wheel-spinning: The showrunners had essentially been forced into a corner by the events of the larger MCU. As Whedon and Tancharoen would elaborate in subsequent interviews, everything in season one revolved around a giant secret that was…

The reason is that there’s no significant part of the culture that supports, encourages, or tries to normalize child rape. When someone makes a joke about it, it doesn’t hit any significant part of the population as, “hey yeah, that IS true!”

Plus, his Honey Boy script is already being made into a movie starring Lucas Hedges, Martin Starr, Natasha Lyonne, and Maika Monroe, all of whom are real actors.

I’m glad it won the award, because I watched it right when it came out and was baffled it wasn’t being talked about more.

Had the same thing for Heat. Two frat dudes in front of me laughing at every other line in the film. Really bummed me out.

Yes! I am genuinely baffled and don’t know what to make of it. Felt like I lost any sense of what the movie was saying after that turn... Wondering if a few days’ pondering will bring insight but would love to hear ideas.

I haven’t seen Handmaid’s Tale but was just googling pics and... is it a “low blow” to say that someone looks like someone else? Like, if the joke were “you look like Jabba the Hutt” I’d get it, but... Ann Dowd is also a person, and not an ugly one (to the extent that even matters here)! The whole point of the joke…

centers around an underground Boston bar owned and operated by an ex-Red Sox player.

Although it’s obviously impossible to include everyone, seems like with such a long ceremony, it would be worth extending the montage a few more seconds so that fewer people would be left out.

Hmm... anyone know if this is the same as Michael Mann’s Ferrari movie, long rumored to star Christian Bale until he dropped out? Or is this a Deep Impact/Armageddon sitch?

Obviously who knows what this particular instance means, but I’ll say that I’ve been using MoviePass for about 4.5 years now and theaters have fluctuated throughout — not drastically, but one will drop here, a new one will be added there. This might be the one that really signifies the end... or it might just be that…

Villeneuve painted the blockbuster space saga as inherently childish, saying his upcoming adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune intends to be “Star Wars for adults.”

Kang, not King!