Sorry, but having a songwriting credit on a pop song doesn’t actually make you a songwriter. When you start to get a bit of pull, your management starts lobbying for songwriting credit as part of your contract, to ensure you have an income stream.  Often the contributions the stars actually make in material terms are…

“Fresh waits a whole 33 minutes to roll its opening credits sequence”

Hmm, I’m not sure I follow the line of logic exactly. I'm not sure that membership overlap between unions and AMPAS makes AMPAS pro-union.

There are very big, very real problems with The Crow, not least of which is that the action is not well staged. The production design is marvelous, the overall tone of the film is pretty good, but the script itself amplifies the problems of comic. The cartoonish yet thin characterisation of the villains barely worked…

Everybody, listen: the Oscars is an awards ceremony assembled by an organisation that was founded to limit the influence of labor unions. This awards program was just a project to shore up legitimacy and, indeed, to monopolize “legitimacy”. The Academy remains anti-labor, it remains anti-regulation, and frankly it’s…

The Razzies still sucks and I don’t really even accept that this move is tasteful on their part. Those low budget direct to video things Willis did weren’t really worth talking about in the first place. Loads of actors transition to that kind of work for all kinds of reasons, sometimes it’s a permanent career move and…

I'm kind of bored of "the Joker as Dr Lecter".

I know it's different in different territories but where I'm from, Disney+ has got It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia on it so...

I’ve always said, the prequels aren’t particularly good but the flaws in them are largely just amplified versions of the flaws in the original series. If ol’ George had used co-writers and directors of a similar calibre to the first three I suspect they’d be quite reasonable.

“I think comedy is absolutely ready for a Cronenberg.”

I feel like this is just one of those things where he's allowed his name to be attached as a favour to aid in development, but he'll quietly drop out before it gets anywhere near close to production.

Or... you can take that $200 and find someone willing to take the bet that this isn’t actually true, that his record company might have something to say about this, and that his half-finished, irritable mental-health-crises-on-tape will indeed be available via standard streaming platforms and even physical media at…

Your heart almost breaks for Leatherface in the original!  When he gets bullied by the family, and when he panics as though he's worried he'll get in trouble for letting intruders in, you almost want to hug the guy.  He clearly just wants to be left alone and cared for.  I know he kills people with a chainsaw but it…

Yeah - it seems silly when I say it out loud but the original is scary because it’s got scary weirdos in it. It’s a character piece. You spend a lot more time being upset by those characters because of who they are and how they see the world (which is as you say, also where the comedy comes from) than you do being…

Aw. I’ve always been happy to give that film the benefit of the doubt because of Hooper’s involvement (though made onlyto satisfy a contractual obligation), and it feels like it *should* be good in its way, but I come helplessly back to the fact that TCM2 kinda sucks

Its baffling to me the way both shitty “direct sequels” have made zero attempt at the ragged, semi-improvised documentary realism. As soon as you tell this story using more Hollywood-classical performance styles, you make it almost impossible to connect with.

I dunno, man. I think of Beavis and Butt-Head as kind of timeless, in a weird way.

Kanye West is an unwell man who really ought to be sidelined for his own good.

Holy cow ten years is a long time.  When this show first came out, Netflix hadn't launched its streaming platform in my country and there were Lillyhammer DVDs in rental store bargain bins for sale at $3 a pop.

I don’t disagree with that assessment, and nor is the irony lost on me that the ostentatious, hyper-performative “progressive” would accuse Awkwafina of a kind of ostentatious, hyper-performed speech just for talking like they're from the place that they're from.