IIRC it was actually The Colbert Report’s Twitter account—which Colbert himself had nothing to do with—tweeting out “I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever” without the context of the original joke, and Suey Park and…

I’ve lured many a friend into watching Veep by playing for them the clip of Jonah—in close-up—telling someone on the phone, “How am I doing? Eating so much pussy I’m shitting clits, son”, followed by Uncle Jeff grabbing said phone and screaming in Jonah’s face, “Hey! This is an elementary school! Watch your spewing…

...the Motion Picture Academy declined to nominate director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie—and yet the film received a Best Picture nomination, so maybe someone can explain how it did that without its director or star.

Agreed that it’s Oppenheimer’s to lose—given how it ran away with the nominations, in general—and agreed that Poor Things has the best chance of playing spoiler, as it should be. A rare insightful 1-2 punch from the current AVC writing staff.

Yep. DiCaprio has the range of a stalled Vespa.

The uproar about “snubs” of Robbie and DiCaprio is going to be fucking insufferable. They’re both people who won the genetic lottery but are just okay as actors. They weren’t snubbed. They got squeezed out by better actors.

Exactly, and same for Leo. There can be only five nominees per category, and neither of them did better in their respective roles than the five actors whose performances got the nods. Both DiCaprio and Robbie are People’s Choice type actors whose “snubs” will always spur dumb lists like this one, but it’ll be the…

It depends on whose list you go by as to who was a member in the first place.

In 1985, writer David Blum pronounced the group of young actors known for their roles in John Hughes movies and more as “the Hollywood ‘Brat Pack.’”

Yeah I think Andy Richter has the record for the most money won, and I remember him talking about how it was a little too dumbed down. I’d like to see him and Stone both go up against the regular questions. I think they’d both do well.

So David Hyde Pierce has some more spare time on his hands now, huh?

Yep. Reminds me of how different Zoey Deschanel has looked in photos without her signature bangs. Different color and different ‘do can really make someone look like a totally different person.

I’ll grant you that pairing America Ferrara with Kevin Costner and Ray Romano with Keri Russell is dumb, but what’s wrong with pairing Natalie Portman and Florence Pugh?

Golden Globes monologues usually create headlines for controversy. This time, audiences would like to know why the Globes didn’t hire a better host

Reminds me of Donald Glover’s bit about getting comedy advice from Tracy Morgan:

With major releases like Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Killers Of The Flower Moon taking up so much space in the run-up to the nominations...

I use Michael Clayton for the chapter on acting in my intro to film course. Wilkinson, Swinton, and Clooney are all fucking amazing in it. Without fail every semester none of my students have seen it, and afterwards they’re asking me about Wilkinson, and I whip out my montage of scenes with him from other films with…

The whole MCU world building enterprise has definitely shown fissures, in general, and there’s been some lackluster entries since Endgame, to be sure. I don’t think you can blame Feige & co., however, for slipping a bit since then as they have had to deal with several major disruptions to the original overall…

It’s funny how he bitches about the MCU’s “annoying habit lately of ignoring things established in its larger universe... spoiling what was once the big selling point of these movies and TV shows” only to end the very same post with boiler plate bitching about how keeping up with the MCU’s interconnectivity is “complic…

It’d be kind of funny if, say, 10 years from now the Duffer Brothers did one of those oral history things and said that they had planned on the “It was all a D&D game” ending but some fans guessing it and/or the collective eyerolling of other fans that followed got ‘em to change their mind.