I’m honestly trying to understand how you get from Jim Crow-era legislation to contemporary standards for voice casting. If you had said, “a half-Black girl in our society experiences life as more Black than white,” I would have seen where you were coming from. It still wouldn’t have entirely answered the question of…

Those are Jim Crow rules. We’re applying the same standard to Hollywood voice acting?

“Sir, please, I have but two weeks left to live before the cancer claims me and sends me to my heavenly reward - could you please recommend one and only one book that I might read before I go?”

Anyone who’s seen one or more of the movies, enjoyed them, and decided to read the books is in for a real shock. The movies have often been problematic but the books are so much worse. I know that Fleming was a product of his time, but it’s kind of shocking today how casual his racism, homophobia, and misogyny was.…

voicing a Black character on Big Mouth

Honestly I think the main reason they’re irritated about her nomination is that it lays bare just how much the Academy Awards process is driven by an insider community and who-knows-who. They like to pretend that the best films and the best performances are recognized with Oscars, when in fact quality is only one of…

The Amy Winehouse documentary I saw on an airplane a few years back was sufficiently depressing. I don’t feel the need to fall into that black pit of despair a second time.

It’s remarkable how many performers did their best work by far in a Soderbergh movie. 

He just needs to give the impression that he’s been dissolved in a vat of acid.

I didn’t say a single thing about the quality of the movie.

The studio will keep their options open right up until they have a shooting script and the next actor signed up. Same thing happened over in the MCU, with Black Panther: just in case a certain actress becomes even more of a distraction, they now have T’Challa Junior waiting in the wings, ready to take over if that…

I’m sure that all ten of the people who saw TÁR in theaters agree with him.

He should have stopped at “grateful.” The world doesn’t need to know that he’s glad the best thing that ever happened to his career is over. There’s a reason that everyone in Hollywood always talks about how much they loved working with everyone else - because you don’t want to burn a bridge that you might need later.

Lynch’s Dune made the fatal mistake of trying to cram the entire book into a single movie - I saw it in theaters, and they were handing out pamphlets that tried to explain the story and characters. (You know a movie tested very, very poorly when they try something like that.) Probably Lynch didn’t have a choice - it…

In general it’s a bad idea to give jobs to your spouse and/or children, because regardless of their qualifications or performance on the job, it leads to situations like this.

They said they would write those characters better today. That is not a controversial statement - anyone would write better with more specific life experience. (And I’ve read plenty of women writers who write bad male characters. It’s not a gender thing, it’s all about lived experience the writer can draw on, which is…

In the case of Smallville, though, that might literally be the case. I watched it, and I kind of hated it - I have to assume there were others like me.

They were living in a world in which they - I’m assuming in their late twenties or early thirties - were responsible for writing dialog for teenage girls. They probably think they’d do a better job of that now, and they’re probably right.

Smallville was as predictable and repetitive as a Christmas rom-com. I remember joking with my friends about how every episode was exactly the same: we’d open with Clark having a sad moment in the barn because he’s not dating Lana; then something supernatural happens somewhere in town, followed by bad stuff happening;…

I’ve said it here before, but the first time I saw Ana de Armas it was in the Blade Runner sequel and I legit thought she was a special effect. I simply assumed that someone so perfect must have been computer-generated (and because of the role she was playing in that movie, nothing about that idea was challenged until…