I agree with this. It's a live action Beavis and Butt-head, and is funny as such, but there's this weird need among some to force identification with these characters.

The first R-rated movie I saw in theatres was either Coming to America or A Fish Called Wanda at age eight, but those both had a Canadian PG-13 equivalency. I wouldn't have enjoyed them at six, though.

I'm already up way too late, so I can't say too much (partly a get-to-bed thing, partly a brain-ain't-woke thing), but part of what De Palma does is meta-commentary on our culpability as viewers (what feminist critics coined "the male gaze" in the '70s). So his movies are largely about protagonists who are able to…

Didn't Strange Days do something similar by forcing the villain to experience a rape-murder he committed? It must have been an idea embedded in '90s malaise.

In the mainstream, it went from when, Singles (1992) to A Life Less Ordinary (1997)? Is that about right? It definitely seemed like a long time.

The first Crow looks amazing. The second is urine-yellow.

I think it's a really good movie. It captures that rain-swept blackened street goth atmosphere better than any movie that's tried. It's a mostly aesthetic success, but it's quite beautiful.

It's basically the progenitor of Mean Girls. A lot of people in their 40s are obsessed with it, but it feels pretty dated.

It's a really easy way to review anything. Of course there should be more diversity and positive representation, but the problem with identity politics is they become a checklist so you can review things using a preset formula, and there comes a point where no thought is required.

I used to think she was just an assembly-line pop-robot, but she seems more interesting now. She's problematic and fun.

Grande is really making spot-on pop star impressions her wheelhouse. But I'm getting the sense she's deliberately not touching a Taylor Swift impersonation, because who wants to deal with that.

Yeah, this was clearly one of the best SNLs in a while, at least in terms of its consistency. The Miley Cyrus one was also underrated, because hey, I think I'm not supposed to like this celebrity.

I don't know that it's calculated, but I agree this was a needed takedown given the way Lawrence is worshipped for her "I'm a regular person, celebrity privilege doesn't apply to me" position.

That was a great sketch. SNL is always best when it allows itself to be weird.

This episode was an A-. Its only bad skit was the Kids' Choice Awards one, which was pointless, but that makes the best streak an episode has had in a while. I'm starting to like Ariana Grande more as a celebrity. She's problematic and interesting.

Most of them seem to. American ones, anyway.

Nah. Fantano is more making fun of authoritarian/bullying trends in "progressive" internet discourse, and the anti-intellectualism of types who take on prefab ideologies to give themselves identity. He's actually very liberal. The right and left both suffer a lack of self-awareness and inability to laugh at themselves.

She's usually cast in sketches as the sassy high school friend, and I'm starting to wonder if that's because she doesn't have the range for impressions or caricatures as most other cast members.

It's not the kind of movie to show what a screenwriter is capable of doing, but is better than his other mentioned scripts (Nightmare on Remake Street and The Thing Remix), and is the best FD after the first one.

I get that, but would compare him more to The Beatles. He has as many major pop touchstones.