It had been so long since I’d heard any update on this that I was genuinely starting to worry about it. Thank god it’s still on and double thank god Barry Jenkins will be directing all of it. One of my favorite authors and one of the best emerging filmmakers is a match made in heaven.

I’m on board for new Barry Jenkins material.

I just subscribed to Filmstruck and I got to see a 30 minute conversation with Jenkins about the films that influenced him and it was a delight.

Anyone but James Franco.

Say what you will, but this prequel could be great. A gritty crime thriller about a man who uses candy to lure children into slavery, until one day he accidentally abducts a dwarf and realizes they’re much better workers than children. A detective, played by Peter Dinklage, tries to figure out why the apparent…

Take Willy Wonka’s advice and live in a world of pure imagination, where anything is possible and you don’t have to keep making the same movies over and over and over and over in endless perpetuity.

Look, I like Donald Glover a lot, but I do not see him as Willy Wonka. His acting has come a long way, but I think he would come off as too self-conscious, and not deeply weird enough. I could see someone like Anthony Carrigan or John Cameron Mitchell being a better fit.

cmon now we all know who was born for this role

It seems like he’s aware that nobody was ever going to be sympathetic with him not returning a family heirloom after the dissolution of their marriage, so he came up with a story that only sounds plausible because it’s Courtney Love.

“And while there’s something vaguely unsettling about a bunch of grown men presumably commissioning their prop department to create a life-size recreation of a random teenage girl”

Unsettling? Really? I mean, come on. Honestly, this is a weirdly unsettling and unwarranted way to read of what’s a pretty nice gesture.…

Did anyone ever come up with a mod for FO4 that lets you do the ‘SEAN!’ scream with a button push? Because that would make the main quest like 1000x better.

Fuck ‘em.

We definitely had to memorize snippets of it, which still take up part of my brain. I know I’m not the only one, but maybe it’s not as widespread as I’d thought.

Actually, Sedaris also said no to the ghosts question. I’ll be posting the 11 Questions 2018 Ghost/Condiments Report when I get home.

Well now I wish one of the 11 questions was “Are we the baddies?”

Funny that he mentions never working in the States, because I spent the better part of a decade certain he was in A Knight’s Tale before a friend pointed out to me that I, in fact, can’t tell the difference between Robert Webb and Paul Bettany.

“AVC: At least in the States, we all have to memorize “The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock” in about seventh or eighth grade. ”

I will again recommend Kinjamprove.  Because of it I no longer hear anything recognitions or Prince Ruprect have to say.  

Ever watch Always Sunny?  Tons of racist characters.  But the butt of the joke is always them.

You mean like Michael Scott on The Office?

So we’re going to make the “Miss Inner Beauty” pageant from Arrested Development a thing?