Special callout to Ruby Sparks, starring Dano and starring and written by Zoe Kazan. I remember them both being really good in it, and the movie definitely pushes the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope to a place where most movies don’t.
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Recast with Jason Hervey in the lead. He’s a bully's bully, scrote!
“Hello, Agnes? Put me through to the internet.”
Norm! Peterson or MacDonald. It’s all good.
Remember when Howard Dean went, "YARRRRRRR!" and we all said, "Nope." That was fun.
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If seven-year-old me could live through this trailer, kids today can withstand a goddamn It poster.
And the Skeleton Twins ... ?
Just yesterday, I came up with a hypothesis (and probably an unfalsifiable one no less) about where humor comes from. I figure that our remote ancestors whose brains started experiencing a flicker of joy when a new unexpected ideas and connections occurred to them, had an overwhelming survival advantage over their…
You’re such a bad faith piece of shit. Do you honestly think people being criticized is “silencing” them? Or is it more likely that you find any criticism of “anti-PC” behavior (in other words, racist, bigoted bullshit) as intolerable and you believe you should be free from consequences of your backwards ass views?
1987 was really John Patrick Shanley’s year for great screenplays. Five Corners, a crime drama starring Jodie Foster and John Tuturro, is a brilliant script also steeped in the culture and poetic rhythms of outer borough people, with a subtle touch of magic realism.
the old grandpa with his love for the mutts and him singing out “le bella luna” just added to the quirk and the magic. this is one of my favorite all time roms ... and I like the crazy ones like Something Wild, Something About Mary, The Wedding Singer, Wild at Heart ... all the best ones
Yeah, Carrie Fisher is to Leia as Margot Kidder was to Lois Lane.
Upvote if you, like me, thought the logo behind Driver’s head were some kind of weird hair extensions/dreadlocks.
The internet was a mistake.
Someday it’ll be SuperTrain’s time...
If you paint artwork, here’s something that no one ever told me in all my decades of art and art classes:
I assume that a lot of the appeal is the film masters “the uncanny”. A hotel denuded of guests; the familiar brands in the pantry in industrial-bulk containers; inexplicable and bizarre spectres whose appearance merely hints at a sordid backstory left to the viewer’s imagination.