Paltrow is just like the AV Club commentariat: she has strong opinions about herbs.

Like everyone said, no one with a heart wishes cancer on this woman and hopefully she makes a full recovery. I’m just surprised that no one has mentioned that when MM suffered a miscarriage and was suicidal, the royal family did f*** all to offer her time to heal privately. They fully expected her to go out and…

Fascinating to see how this has already altered the media narrative in exactly the way the palace will have wanted... now, of course, anyone who ever questioned the official story (and its terribly staged and/or photoshopped images) is clearly a heartless, uncaring individual because this poor woman has cancer, how…

If Kate didn’t want to be in the public eye, why did she marry into the royal family whose only job is to be in the public eye?

If Kate didn’t want to be in the public eye then why did she release a badly photoshopped photo of herself? She could have just gone completely silent for a few weeks, but she chose not to.

“clamoring for details about a stranger’s private life”

I’d read somewhere that the rumors were that she’d had a hysterectomy, and now the cancer diagnosis. It hits close to home for me. My wife had one earlier this year. No cancer was found, thankfully, but we’re not done — she’s due for a mastectomy later this year as well. All preventative.

I think the word “committee” implies a group that includes stakeholders with little-to-no artistic vision or creativity. Professional movies and TV shows are already collaborations, so I don’t think sneering at “made by committee” devalues collaborative work at all. Rather, it recognizes that the starting point, the…

Same.  She’s a loon, but dill is poison.

I also don’t care for Gwyneth outside of specific roles/projects, and I despise everything Goop, but I agree that dill is disgusting outside of pickling cucumbers. And basil is a perfectly cromulent favorite herb.

I just read his post and it was incredibly clear what he was saying. It was obviously a “we’re all dying so live life to the fullest” message. Nontroversy.

People should understand that for the overwhelming majority of actors, most of the roles they play are “just a job” that they aren’t terribly invested in, especially if it’s some franchise IP thing. 

The only upside to this scattershot streaming TV hell we seem to be in is that it’s so easy to lose track of which shows are streaming where, or if they’re canceled or not, is that I am regularly pleasantly surprised to find out a show I liked is coming back. Now save the Save By the Bell reboot!

...and the AV Club hits a new low, when the commentariat has to explain jokes to the writing staff.

Right? SO UNFAIR that a movie star can’t just choose to stop working half the year.

“Even movie stars have to take shitty jobs to pay the bills every now and again.”

Yeah, this line had me scratching my head too. The last time you could call Sony’s Spider-man franchise “untouchable” was like, 20 years ago with Spider-man 2.

Okay, she’s not explicitly saying it now either, but it’s clearly her attitude towards widely derided tentpole and future cult classic Madame Web, which she was in despite her quip to the contrary (“you definitely did not see me in Madame Web”) last week on Saturday Night Live.

Glad its back. As a parent of an only child who lives in a city I vote New York Lonely Boy as the best song.

Uncut Gems doesn’t seem like it really needs the full IMAX experience.