When the title credits came up, my friend looked over me — mouth agape — and said ‘wait, that was just the beginning?’

Yep — and I was all about Matthew McFayden, Sissy Spacek and Brian Tyree Henry this year so glad to see them here! Plus, you can’t beat the love for Brendan Fraser and Bill Hader.

I have a lot — but there are 2 of note:

While we’re here, can it be Tessa Thompson? Because I want her in everything. 

Yeah but that whole film was awful. 

Sidebar: Queen Latifah and Mos Def in Brown Sugar. Can we not forget about how crazy cute they were in that? I still want that spin-off sequel.

I know no one is perfect so it pains me to go against Lena Dunham. But I have to say — for someone whose prided herself on being the voice of so many things: Not just feminism, but women in writing, body positivism, millennial relevancy; I never felt she understood them. I always felt, and still feel, that it was…

But in the film, she’s presented as someone who exists to service another. She’s not presented as human. She’s a replicant (that’s her entire arch).

Just to keep this real — this is one person making one decision?

The original Blade Runner had some great gender politics — the female characters (Rachel, Pris, Zhora) fight against what they’re built to be, always at their own expense, always with agency and with an agenda that isn’t gender-based. No different than the male characters. 

But yet . . . Watch that movie, with its smoggy metro-scape and cynicism and tell me it didn’t create something new. Film Noir meets Sci-Fi.

To be fair, he’s a prolific musician whose done some stunningly beautiful work. I’d recommend ‘Gold’ for a starter album; though the never-released but easy to be found online album ‘Suicide Handbook’ is a must-listen.

THIS, social media/news coverage. THIS. 

‘500 Days of Mandy Moore’

(cough) Simon and Garfunkel. 

Buckingham’s seemingly favorite song of his own, ‘My Little Demon’, is awful and was the only lowlight of The Dance.

Eames in Inception. I’m still waiting for the stand-alone Eames film. But yeah, also Mad Max.

Attacking another woman for a standard set by society is not the best route here. Maybe the better thing is to get to the root of the pressure and handle that.

She wasn’t humiliated —

When she was giving testimony, all the news said she was perfect because she was doing it right — by being humble, by being as perfect as she could with all the facts, by being deferential.