I felt the same (and was a huge fan of Spaced so it pained me to do so) but he appeared on Adam Buxton’s podcast recently for an hour long interview and it was fascinating stuff, and really made me like him again.

It’s no different than the small movies that play in 4 theaters on either coast for a day before the nominations window closes.

That tennis song was probably my fave. I’m just being really picky — musically I thought they were spot on (the orchestrations too like that 70s synth) and also in terms of lyric concept. I just thought, given how Sondheim harps on constantly about the need for using perfect rhymes that it felt a bit lazy that so much…

I think your feelings in general seem to pretty closely mirror my feelings about the scene I mentioned...

People keep calling it a reverse Driving Ms. Daisy, which makes me imagine a film called ‘Ms. Daisy Endangers Other Road Users’.

It never once occurred to me while watching it that Emma Stone wasn’t the lead, but this turned out to be a far more radical idea than I was expecting.

I was six. It’s so crazy to learn about what was actually going on with stories like this: OJ trial, Lorena Bobitt, Central Park Five. As a kid, you get the rough strokes, and they’re often just completely incorrect. You’re a kid, but you think, surely the adults could have understood this better.  I guess not.

If Marc Shaiman didn’t win an Oscar for South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, he doesn’t deserve one for Mary Poppins Returns. Though I quite liked “The Place Where the Lost Things Go”.

It’s the “rooting for ‘their’ team” part that tends to breed high levels of toxicity. Ghostbusters 2016 is emblematic of this tendency. Sony deliberately marketed it as some kind of feminist empowerment milestone and hyped the tiny minority of misogynists online to, essentially, try to get people to go see a really…

Unless a big swerve is coming, he knows the whole story, but dropped it because Hoyt knows he killed James. He cut a deal, but forgot it, and then Elisa comes along and stirs all this up and he starts investigating again.

...plus the 1941 original is a scant 64 minutes. This remake is twice as long, plus two minutes. They really needed to find an entirely different story with some similar beats. So...yeah, I agree, let’s revisit the story rather than just doing a shot-for-shot live action remake.

As an African American and a drunk, I find the racist crows and drunk elephants to be the most entertaining parts. And Baby Mine.

I find it odd that you both got the point and missed the point at the same time.

Patty’s natural hair made us think he was going to be made up to look like Judy in Meet Me In St. Louis.

These guys learned from Shelly Long and David Caruso School Of Career Decisions: always know where your bread is buttered.

This! I love Rent, but it is not a perfect show. I definitely needed a few nips and tucks before the transfer. 

Oh I get you, I just was genuinely asking if there are any since a lot of musicals structurally build to a huge crescendo at the end of act 1 and then they never quite get the same momentum built up for the second. Wicked’s kind of a mess in the second act what with having to dance around the events of Wizard of Oz.

Rent: Everyone’s Saving Their Top Notes for a Performance That’s Not Coming.

Oh, the keep it on thing makes sense, but she was nuts to think that Ru would play along with that based on a one minute conversation.

I do agree it’s hard to tell with Valentina. Last week when she launched into her workroom speech about that crass guest judge who had the effrontery to not love her garment, I thought at first there was a joke coming. I still thought it was amusing and because I like her I’m going to assume it was role play, but I…