Prediction: you will see, over time, as the definition of celebrity moves even further away from “establishment celebrity” and more towards “awkward but honest weirdoes on the internet” you will see more and more marketing from the studio which mines the ‘authenticity’ of its stars by encouraging them to be honest, go…

People like to believe this is a question of different prevailing corporate attitudes or that there’s particular people in each respective organization advocating, or that the organizations are taking some sort of ideological stance on this, but it basically just comes down to whether they think they need to reach…

What's that all about, do you suppose?

Surely I’m not the only one who felt like we’re sitting on a ticking clock with Mulaney. I’m not saying this is his moment of reckoning (you’d hope not because who gives a shit) but at some stage he’s going to reveal himself to be damaged or messed up, not through vulnerable and disarming comedy, but by revealing some…

They did just make an offensively violent Texas Chainsaw film, and you’re also largely misrepresenting Cronenberg there.

I came to post something similar, not that I expect I would have articulated it so well.  The film is almost oneiric in places, it's deliberate in its pacing quite specifically to emphasise the strangeness of the world, and I think that lore (or at least, lore as it's typically deployed in these things) has rather the…

Are they ever gonna make a movie out of Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream?

My favourite filmmaker.  As excited as I am by this new film I'm almost equally excited by the fact that we get a new round of Cronenberg interviews.

Am I going crazy/am I experiencing a Matrix blip? I could have sworn there was already something out there about this guy being a creep.

I'm so excited, the importance of Cronenberg's work to me is so profound, that I don't have anything clever to say.  I mean I never do anyway, but I particularly don't right now.

Look I’m not going to weigh in on any of the gross takes, because I’d prefer to offer my own ice-cold take: they both sound absolutely insufferable based on how they originally connected . How many times have “poetry”, and “smoking cigarettes” been mentioned as a kind of love language in this trial?

Yeah, I've revisited that one many times, and I agree it's the gold standard.  But even the second tier collaborations are actually quite good when you've got a bit of distance from them, is my point.  I understand how at the time SNEHNE would be a disappointment but with hindsight, even a "not so great" Wilder/Pryor…

Because of the seriousness with which he takes his craft and his process, sometimes you forget just how good Cassavetes really is, and how astoundingly effective his processes are. He’s almost short-hand for a certain kind of actor dedication, to the extent that you’d be forgiven for thinking his gifts have been…

I watched “See No Evil, Hear No Evil” recently. I watched it when I was a kid, and loved it, but I never went back to it after I learned it was considered a bit of a low point in terms of the films he made with Richard Pryor.

But it’s quite good! It’s gentle and sweet and decent!

Remember that AMA Corden did where most of the questions were "is it true you're a massive prick and a nightmare to work with?"

This entire new Halloween series has been offensively off the mark.

The greatest living filmmaker.

Ohhh yeah inject your sexuality into my programming, DaddySantis.

But will people be allowed to call each other paedophiles, consequence-free, in the face of human disasters in Mr Musk's vision for the platform?

That Mummy movie and that whole Dark Universe thing was ill-conceived from the outset, and poorly executed at every stage thereafter.  Kurzman didn't help, but it still would have been shit without him.