• Love Dinklage

Don’t love musicals. Don’t love The National. Don’t even love Peter Dinklage.

Love musicals.

Thought this photo of birds hanging out on the Birds Aren’t Real billboard was fantastically meta

The whole point was 12 days of *celebration*. What you’re talking about is two long months of *exhortation towards preparation* with a message to CONSUME.

Poor guy. I’m glad no one has followed me around with a camera over the last several decades to photograph all the times I’ve eaten a sandwich alone on a park bench.

We don’t need the 12 days of Christmas, we currently have the 55 days of Christmas that start on November 1.

I agree. Is it a good adaptation of the comic book? No. Is it a fun movie on its own terms? Absolutely!

I love that movie and have watched it nigh on 50 times. I love the ending with the Devil. It is such a perfect portrayal of him.

I don’t know if anyone’s noticed or mentioned this, but Keanu Reeves seems truly delightful.

The erotic thrillers from the late 80s to the early 2000s fascinate me. One thing that hasn’t been mentioned either is they attracted a surprising number of somewhat arty directors who otherwise didn’t do much in Hollywood. Their movies aren’t necessarily on the better end of the erotic thriller, but you have a lot of…

Isn’t that Squid Game?

I like the concept of it (old man Bruce mentoring a new Batman), I like the futuristic setting, I liked Terry as a character and thought it was perfect to make him distinctly different in personality than Bruce, and I thought they did a good job building up his rogue gallery while showing what happened to some of the…

Those erotic thrillers also made huge money *in the theater*, Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct both made over $300 million worldwide (domestically, Fatal Attraction is in the top 200 box office all time, adjusted for inflation). It was just a different era when those movies were relatively low budget, and trendy.…

Eleventacles.

Just make Batman Beyond already.

“from Batwoman team” = pass.

I think half of the reason those were so ubiquitous was because they were a way to watch (very) softcore porn without actually watching porn. Oh, and not being actual porn you could rent them at Blockbuster.

Great work, it’s the Flying Spaghetti Monster of the 2020s.

It’s a slight spoiler, but Side Effects is an especially good one since it bends genres rather deftly.