This is deeply cynical.

I don’t know how I feel about absolving Dakota Johnson of making Dakota Johnson’s choices in movies starring Dakota Johnson. There is something sort of absurd in this article’s position. Are you suggesting in some half-assed way that she is a performance artist, accidentally or purposely? It’s undeniable that actors…

I’m not disagreeing from a “do the thing that makes creative sense” POV, buuuuut if they develop IP from the Spideyverse without Spidey himself that doubtlessly sidesteps any deal they have with Disney/Marvel. So all that wonderful money (that they have failed to make) comes back solely to them rather than divvied up.

Oh ffs. I’m all for holding these writers and this site accountable for easy fixes like that but “kick one of our finest screenwriters on his way out the door”??? Take it down a fucking notch, man.

Karen Carpenter’s oyster bar.

Is this Melissa Etheridge’s father-in-law?

Although he was already working and quite well-received by then, I would lay the “blame” at the feet of Wes Craven and Noah Baumbach for Cursed and The Squid & the Whale. Kind of impressive from the POV of career tracking to see him star in a horror flick and an indie dramedy in the same year.

Isn’t it obvious?

Werewolves are my favorite movie monster so ranking is never easy. I honestly even really like the Wolfman movie that came out a few years ago with Benicio Del Toro. Ginger Snaps is so damn good, though! Speaking of movie double features, I think every preteen girl should watch a double feature of Ginger Snaps and…

It’s very entertaining if a bit grim. Dude is... well, him.

For the longest time I didn’t know about the movie so I just thought it was an Atari game. When Rifftrax did the movie a couple of years ago I put two and two together.

There’s a three part podcast episode of The Dollop about the star of the moment in question that’s worth a listen if you haven’t already.

Incidentally, Dog Soldiers is hard to remove from my top werewolf movie spot but Brotherhood is a strong contender.

The marketing did it no favors. Whoever cut the trailers apparently didn’t get the point. And/or the studio was terrified that Average Joe Moviegoer wouldn’t “get” an action satire starring Ahnold. Either way it wasn’t advertised correctly.

I think he’s very good at interiority but it requires particular shot choices. There’s a scene in Vanilla Sky where he’s going up in an elevator and the camera is pushing in on his face. I know he’s meant to be going through some internal struggle but the camera move, the film stock, the color grading, etc. conspires…

As mentioned, the word “subversive” is hard to entirely nail down. So I offer this suggestion with the caveat that it might not be as subversive as others.

Wow, that is a hell of a double bill!

Ever play the Atari adaptation? It was a pretty interesting, relatively fun movie tie-in game.

Seriously. Imagine saying you “authored” movies with credited fucking screenwriters.

I might back off the vitriol in a better mood but TDK is genuinely VERY overrated, particularly the characterization and dialogue. Which is, puppies and rainbows and the death of SCOTUS, hot garbage.