as an artist, my fave line of his is “look, i made a hat where there never was a hat.”  every bit of art is a triumph.

Yeah, there’s going to be some be careful what you wish for monkey’s paw shenanigans...

I think the best parts of Blade Runner was the stuff they didn’t show. The off world colonies and all the stuff about the replicants there.

I did think it was kind of fascinating how The Shape of Water, because it was up against Call Me By Your Name, Get Out and Lady Bird, kind of became the “conventional,” boring choice in the various Oscar discourses going around at the time. Like, the number of critics whose tone suggested, “Oh, ho hum, once again the…

I’m halfway dreading seeing this because it almost feels like it can’t live up to that incredible “Life on Mars?” trailer. I’m more excited for this than I have been for any Anderson movie since There Will Be Blood.

As long as they follow it up with the students’ post-graduate lives in those two most under-represented urban locales, NYC and LA, then all will be forgiven.

Okay, but...Maguire was also, you know, the lead. Wouldn’t the more relevant question, given the similar size of their roles and similar levels of fame at the time, be whether Dunst made less than James Franco?

The world adjacent to vast sums of money is filled with professionally driven behaviour that is very difficult to accept as normal or excusable (nor should it be). But given the stakes to the people involved, it’s not surprising or even rare. I’m not condoning shit like this, but we’re talking about people being on…

Oh, I wasn’t complaining about the general use of older actors, just that with NHIE it wasn’t well masked.

I hear Lady A is available for a band name

why, whats he done? (Honest question, never heard anything negative about him)

I saw her on the Jagged Little Pill tour. She was fantastic, the less flashy songs on the album were really elevated live. Oh, also, Radiohead were the opening act.

Octavia Spencer is screaming inside.

You know what’s method?  cancer.

My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?

St. Elmo’s Fired

“Would you like to buy a monkey wrench?”

Perfect timing, since the MPAA is rolling out its new NC-37 rating.

Who “wasted our life savings on an IMAX screen in the basement” now, Barbara!? 

Good question. Scott is the creator of this festival though (it’s named after one of his albums), so that might make him liable.