Betty/Diane and Rita/Camilla from Mulholland Drive count in my book.

That’s has been a common issue around here for awhile. They’ve been ramping up the number of listicles they publish, but apparently nobody who works at the AV Club now knows much about pop culture before roughly 1989 so it’s just a sandwich of low-quality crap.

I was just trying to look out for a fellow Masshole. Most people probably know about our tendency towards non-rhoticity, but our frequent conflation of the voiceless alveolar stop and the voiced alveolar plosive is not so well known.

Or are you saying something because you’re noticing an event or behavior in this world you feel many people can relate to, and that you want to call out in your specific experience so that maybe you can connect to some other people? I think that the ladder there is really useful to me.

Still haven’t gotten used to how much Rachel Brosnahan looks like Evan Rachel Wood.

Geraldine Viswanathan deserves to break out into a bigger star.

Ding ding ding ding ding.

Was the lesson fade into obscurity because this is the first time I’m hearing about her in like 20 years.

I just had my Intro to Film class watch The Lego Movie for a chapter on narrative, and students picked up on the little touches like Benny’s cracked helmet, the smudges and scratches, and the herky jerky motion. I told them that I don’t think enough credit is given to Lord and Miller for paying homage to fan-made…

For season 1 he was also cribbing heavily from not only Chambers’s The King in Yellow (which was, of course, explicit) but also works by Laird Barron and others—especially Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, from which whole monologues by Cohle are lifted. Accusations of plagiarism got thrown…

Eh. He spent maybe two minutes tops—including applause breaks and reading the tweets in question—on the backlash. Really he used that to tee up his takedown of Carlson.

Good to see Poor Things did well, too. It was my favorite film from last year. All of the winners feel about right, actually. Hope it’s a good preview of the Oscars.

What about Gossamer?

I was thinking of those little comic books that came packaged with Masters of the Universe action figures that introduced the characters. Atari did something similar with some of the early 2600 cartridges; a little comic book would give you the game’s backstory so you could better imagine what the primitive graphics…

Molecule Man would be amazing. What I’d really like to see is them set it up where the FF were around and got their powers in the 60s where they were fighting that whole group of villains that popped up in early issues like MM—just lean into how campy they all are—and then have the FF pop up in modern times having…

I’m hoping against hope that they forgo making it yet another movie-long origin story. Get it out of the way in the first 10 minutes or, hell, just give audiences a promotional mini comic book with a crash course on the team’s origin to thumb through while they wait for the movie to start.

Pascal was raised in San Antonio, Texas. His everyday speaking voice sounds pretty damned American. Kirby played Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire to critical acclaim (and she began her career as a classically-trained English stage actor—they eat American accents for breakfast). And did you watch season 4 of Stranger…

First of all, did Edebiri really have to apologize for this?

That’s a Super Bowl ad I can get behind. The Christian Fascists are already breaking down the wall between church and state and using the pulpit to promote their candidates. It should cut both ways.