“At one point, they shoot a rectal exam from the rectum’s perspective. It may be the defining image of a film so far up its own ass.”

Spielberg said a follow-up “would only rob the original of its virginity,”

I think it’s “for” parents looking for something for their young kids to watch. They recognize Punky Brewster, they pick it over some unknown quantity, maybe they watch it some too and it’s more tolerable or interesting because it has some familiarity.

- Looks like there was one disclaimer they forgot.

Better than pulling it and pretending it didn’t happen.

I feel we could make more emphatic that the problem here is the harassment and the threats, how some of the women were underage, and the fact that D’Elia doesn’t address those facets head on. And that the problem is NOT that he sought sex with adult fans, or that he did so with frequency. (If he is a sex addict, that…

Sia made this movie because she’s fascinated by the idea of someone who can only express herself musically, and having a character for whom that’s true who doesn’t have autism would be even worse.

Kind of, but if it’s a choice of subject for a Sia/Ziegler dance movie that’s appropriation. If it’s a movie that must be about autism and they chose to star Ziegler that’s more about representation (perhaps with a side of appropriation as well, depending.)

Yeah but the question is, did she want to make a dance movie starring Maddie (who seems to be her recurring muse/thinly veiled stand-in for some aspect of herself) or did she want to tell a story about autism? I’m putting all of my money on the former. Ziegler was almost certainly going to be the star of Sia’s first…

Would Sia have ever cast anyone but Ziegler? I have to think the movie was written with her in mind from the beginning and no one else would be considered. I also have to wonder if she really wanted to tell a story about autism or just saw it as a way to quickly define the character and get to the dance.

I don’t doubt that somewhere, someone exists who has spent a significant amount of time berating someone for not watching The Irishman the right way, but it also sounds suspiciously like a construct—a mythically rude and myopic Scorsese fanboy who is somehow vastly more powerful than the thousands of extremely…

Everybody in jail will be so SCARED of him!

and they’re just some big dudes playing a kids’ game.

There is seldom an opportunity to speak about Jackson’s King Kong. I saw it in the theater with the mix of wow and yikes and a sense that the LOTR magic might have been lightning in a bottle. But I’d watched the original King Kong beforehand, which helped for appreciating things like the original natives recreated as…

Carve her face out of Jefferson’s on Mount Rushmore.  He was a slaveowning rapist anyways, and doesn’t deserve to be up there.  

Ziggy says there’s less than a ten percent chance of that happening.

That and most of those show’s viewers are over 80 so even if they can’t follow the stories they’ll watch to see the pretty Hawaiian scenery. 

I’ll watch Overdrawn At The Memory Bank

100x more interested in watching this goofy as shit self-serious schlockfest than Zach Snyder’s 4-hour Justice Turd.

My own “rule” is that any of the following elements incrementally reduce my desire to watch a movie: