I thought her next film was a Kerri Strug biopic starring Thomasin McKenzie.

“Florence Pugh is a very good actress” is hardly a take so improbable that her publicist would have to be behind it.

I mean, this review is hardly an outsider in its characterization of both Pugh and the movie itself. The Guardian, USA Today, IndieWire, Deadline, Daily Beast and The Hollywood Reporter all have some version of this same sentiment in their reviews: The movie has serious flaws but Pugh herself is very good in it. So…

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Well, when you write endless, cynical gossip to drive clicks, you inevitably end up contradicting yourself. Hilarious that an article they literally published yesterday said this movie was supposed to be great. At this point I only visit the site to see what new level of embarrassment they’ve reached.

Well, at least New AV Club is continuing the Old AV Club tradition of hyping some random movie to the hilt only to ultimately give it a C-.

It’s almost as if the Russos just aren’t the greatest film makers. I think they found a good match between their talent — grand but bland action movies — and source material in The Avengers. But there’s only one MCU, and without access to the characters, backstories, and goodwill that Marvel provides, the Russos don’t…

TV is a writer’s medium first and foremost. Which is why so much “television” is much, much stronger than the bulk of films in theaters or on streaming. Bringing tentpole film thinking to a series is just the wrong foot to start on. TV simply doesn’t need auteurs. It needs great characters, tension, stakes, pacing and…

It’s almost as if (and this is no slight to the Russos, but rather a general observation on showbiz’s obsession with directorial auteur theory) the people writing the scripts have just as important a job as those who oversee the filming and editing of said works.

Damn, he must have fucked half of Hollywood to stay out of jail.

Olivia Wilde is smart, beautiful, charming, from an upper-middle class background, and I have to believe up until this year she thought there was no situation she couldn’t talk her way out of.

this is where the generation war gets real.

I wonder how many bridges they’re burning with the creatives. If shows and movies can get canceled without warning and even scrubbed, who’s going to be willing to work with WB?

Sesame Street points out that monsters are fine and good.

These folks would permanently wipe all footage of the civil rights marches and speeches from the face of the Earth if it would boost this quarter’s profit numbers, so making Sesame Street inaccessible is no sweat to them.

It’s about time a movie featured cleavage.

On the other hand, the film is called Bodies Bodies Bodies. At worst, it does what’s on the tin.

Lesbian or not, it’s clear the author of the review is using her white womanhood to try and become the victim when messaged by a black actress she wrote a review on. 

Yeah, I reread that bit trying to figure out what I was missing that makes sense of that. It doesn’t matter how much ‘social power’ someone has if they DM you, because it’s not public unless you make it so. If Billie Eilish slid into my DMs to call me an asshole, I’d be alarmed and confused, but it wouldn’t have the…

So the reviewer makes a reductive comment about how the movie is just an advertisement for cleavage, a star from that movie sends a private message joking that if the reviewer had paid more attention to the film than the cleavage, maybe she would have gotten more out of it, and somehow the reviewer is a victim?