Well, Lizzie going was pretty much predestined, short of another contestant having an absolute meltdown. If you’re on a televised baking show generally doing a terrible job with your presentation is not going to win it for you (and I say that as someone who generally doesn’t care about what something looks like versus…

“Non-violence”? Opposed to war? That doesn’t sound like Catherine the Great. Admittedly, I stopped watching the first season after I heard her stumping for The Social Contract, when the real Catherine hated Rousseau.

“Blahblah fuck the rich.”

Now here’s a man who doesn’t like to pay taxes! Or who simply loves rich people and wishes to protect them from the onerous burden of supporting the infrastructure that helped them get rich in the first place.

Did you read beyond the headline or nah?

George has been lucky to survive this far, and I knew he was a gonner when he proclaimed himself confident about Caramel week at the top of the show.  But I agree that it was nice to see him nail one before leaving.

I never thought I’d miss the overpaid studio execs who used to design movies by committee. Then the algorithms came.

Yup, this article is squarely from the perspective of childless adults (not judging, I’m a childless adult), specifically people who’ve experienced the arc of the initial bandwagon, and the self-souring of Rowling’s reputation.

what was the point of this?

An exercise in teeth sucking.

So this is a roundtable on Harry Potter by a group of people who mostly don’t give a shit about Harry Potter? I know J.K. Rowling sucks now and deserves nothing, but what was the point of this?

I rewatched Philosopher’s Stone at the cinema this weekend and it’s as good an adaptation of the book as anyone could have hoped for. I worked the opening weekend at my local cinema and I can’t describe the excitement of the children going into and out of the screens. It was such a great atmosphere. For them it was…

I don’t know if I’ll ever have the stomach to watch these again, but:

I will forever defend the Columbus movies. They’re faithful adaptations that don’t do much more (partially because the kid actors just haven’t come into their own, and also because the source material hadn’t yet matured past basic kid’s fantasy as well), but the thing they do that the back half of the film series just…

I continually am reminded that I’m in the minority of HP fans in that I seem to like all the movies that are usually considered the “worst” ones and I don’t care for the “good” and “gritty” ones. I haven’t thought about this for a while, but if I was forced to rank the HP movies now (again, none of them are amazing,…

For twelve-year-old me The Sorcerer’s Stone was a perfect movie. I hadn’t read the books yet (my mom told me I might like them, but 200 pages seemed like way too many pages back then), so this was my introduction to this world and it worked so well. The characters, the setting, the music, the costumes, everything…

Literally all of these lose the magic and wonder if the books, despite a mostly winning cast

So many of the technicals seem to be “intricate fiddly dessert that in no way tastes good enough to be worth doing from scratch”.

I thought of Krispy Kreme too when she said that. The only thing going for them is that they can be bought fresh all the time.

Choux-nuts are [...] generally not worth the hassle as they only taste good for about 10 minutes after they are cooked.