Forgive me for being mistaken. In my memory, I had conflated the scenes where Elio and Oliver accompany Elio’s father on his archaeological trip to the sea with the setting of the rest of the film. 

As a big Sparks fan, I agree that the pacing of this movie keeps it solidly in the “B” range. The exhaustive coverage of every album, accompanied by so much TV footage, would be great for a fan-centric anthology, but it’s less compelling as a feature film.

And the egalitarian scope also means that some of the most…

The baffling thing about Covid to me is that in the midst of something that has already killed 600,000 Americans and maybe 6 million worldwide, we as a nation have seemed all along to have been concerned about everything except that.

I’m one of those people that thinks Inland empire is pretty comprehensible. You just cling onto the Laura Dern character and every other wonderfully bizarre thing gravitated around that. Her arc is pretty clear. A struggling actor who dives too deep into a role and accidentally dives into a supernatural nightmare…

You are a complete cunt. FYI. 

When one of my good friends from high school finally came out to us it was an emotional thing for him and us all. After the tears and hugs and such my other friend said bluntly to break the ice “We always sorta kind of suspected but based on your terrible fashion sense we figured you were just really bad with girls”.…

I love the taste of projection.

Not to dump on you specifically (because I usually find your comments insightful, and hopefully will deem to ungrey me!) but... why tf are we still doing shit like this?? Can we please not fall prey to this specific kind of neoliberal backpatting? Or like, if the commentariat and the site itself insists on taking a…

What the fuck is going on in New Mexico?

I was very confused at first, but this is arguably the clearest example of postmodern minimalism as its own pastime.

Seems like these are just glorified hunting rifles (10 of them total), and all the prizes are just tailor-made to get some nice PR so people to get back to normal hunting rates (which dipped below the 5-yr average in WV in 2020). Prolly the same reason the youth prizes are scholarships to state schools, to remind ppl…

For real, its no “maybe it’s actually good” flop, but a “so bad its fun” movie at best. Interesting and ambitious for sure, but not quality. Definitely doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Speed Racer, which gets a drive-by here, and imo is a legit masterpiece (I fully believe it’ll be viewed as a…

Not a big fan of “gun giveaways” and what-have-you but this feels like a lesser of two evils situation.

I know the internet loves to do the whole, “You know that thing that sucks? Actually, it’s good! Trust me!” nonsense a lot. But the Super Mario Bros. movie? Really? Has it really come to this?

Just wanted to point out for those that haven’t seen it, the 2012 series that Nickelodeon did is actually really good. I think its 4 or 5 seasons. Worth checking out if you’re a TMNT fan that has the time. Perfect blend of enough stuff for the kiddos and enough easter eggs, callbacks, etc for older audiences. Although…

I’d like to take a moment to note that, as TMNT movies go, the 2007 animated CG movie is actually pretty good, because a). the villain wasn’t Shredder for once, and b). Leonardo & Rafael finally threw down, and it was awesome.

Welp, David Gordon Green went ahead and did the one thing that could surprise me from him filmmaking-wise: pivot to acting. Genuinely weird casting here, and I hope the finished thing reflects the taste/work of some of the folks in front of the camera.

This is one of the rare situations where I’m pretty sure the pandemic isn’t the primary roadblock.

AV Club is really doubling down on this forgettable mediocrity, and it’s just not the hill I would have figured they’d be willing to die on.

Part II is indeed terrible, but the third Hangover is pretty great.