I watched all 9 already and I will just say this.

“I didn’t want the whole review to turn too much into a diatribe about queer representation”

I don’t know how you could possibly think that this episode was suggesting “both sides are bad” or any sort of equivalency between Nazis and progressives. That’s just ridiculous. Some people fake/use progressivism in order to gain power and wealth; Neuman is one of those people.

I assume you’ve never read the books.

You don’t like anything do you?

The thing with Nolan is he wants to make standard genre films with a fun conceptual twist, but he often underestimates how much more fun the conceptual twist is than the genre film he’s trying to spice up. It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that Inception isn’t a movie about dream shenanigans, it’s a…

The Nolan bashing started with Dark Knight Rises and continued with Interstellar because he lost some important collaborators who helped make his earlier stuff work, he got big enough that people stopped telling him “no,” and he already got to use a lot of his dream project ideas earlier in his career.

And as…

No one’s saying that. But times have changed, people want and expect different things from their movies now. And some of the problems with his work are more obvious once you have seen a lot of it over time.

As an amateur Nolanologist, I’ve come to the conclusion he gets his plot motives from a small set of anxieties. Underneath the pseudo-cerebral exterior, he’s an innocently personal filmmaker who loves James Bond movies and airplanes. He is, in modern parlance, a classic dad and total wife guy. Also note that while…

So will Elizabeth Debicki be murdered in this one, too? Presumably she will, but only if she’s someone’s love interest. It’s kind of Nolan’s thing.

I love Nolan’s films, even when they’re pretty stupid (see: Interstellar, a tonal mess but it has so many great moments) and Inception is a movie I’ll just love forever—I’m…

Yeah, they somehow kept it quiet for four years. While he was filming all those movies. Understandable. 

Floored by this news.

Great topic - and THANK YOU for the heads-up about Leon’s version!

When I was a junior in high school we did Macbeth, but our big semester assignment was to choose any one of the comedies or histories and write a term paper on it. I chose Much Ado about Nothing. I don’t know really remember why, I think I liked the title. I had no clue what it was about going in. I had an annotated…

(Amy Acker fairs okay as Beatrice, but Alexis Denisof just can’t make Benedick spring to life.)

I’ve never been a fan of this film. I thought this was just average, the kind of production kids put up with, but that doesn’t engage them. This came out only a few years after Richard Monette started directing at the Stratford Festival, and just before he became artistic director. Monette was the first director I had…

I saw it with somebody who was not an artsy/Shakespeare person at all, and after the film he told me that around the 20 minute mark, understanding Shakespeare’s dialogue became second nature. My experience with Shakespeare is that if the actors know what they’re saying, so will you. So you don’t need any clever…

I was completely obsessed with the Branagh version when it came out, partly because I was a horny teenager, but mostly because it was so thrilling and funny and sexy. I also loved the costuming, everyone looking ever so slightly sweaty and deshabille. I also loved Whedon’s version, though, and thought the actors did…

I had one of my favorite movie experiences when I went to see the Joss Whedon version. It was a matinee on a Wednesday or Thursday so the audience was mostly retirees. Just as I was leaving when the movie ended, this old man sitting a few seats away from me - he must have been in his late 70s / early 80s - turned to…

At first I was bummed that they only played a snippet of Don’t You (Forget About Me), and then they came back from the ad break and played the whole dang song. That alone makes this an all-timer for me. Then the battering ram of 80's riffs, and their own version of Fat Thor just put it over the top.