Just saw it today, and I think B- is very unfair. The nuanced portrayal of Anxiety and its impact on ourselves as we grow was supremely well done. The third act is tenser than the third act of the first. It was GORGEOUS.

I haven’t seen Luca, but Turning Red was a blast, and I liked, Soul, too.

I feel like people forget how recent Luca and Turning Red are when talking about Pixar, they obviously got Fuuuuucked by the D+ release but I keep hearing “Pixar has sucked for years!” and then, when reminded of the D+ ones, respond “Oh yeah, those were pretty good actually.”

Why does Torres always require five layers of meta.....

Maybe I’m being too charitable here but I read it as 1980 specifically. Because 2024 is also a singular year. Just scanned the Top 100 singles of 1980 and I can see it. There are some great songs on the list but the “real” 80s hadn’t emerged yet - no full embrace of cheesy synths and bubblegum hooks, plus Michael…

“tons of people are currently loving the hell out of The Marvels now that it’s on Disney”

I didn’t expect to see this set, but I was at my parents’ home when they decided to watch. (While I educate where I can, I don’t police what my family watches.) So, I sat through this before reading about it. And, I have to say, this article nails it. He sounds like an old fool; one of those guys you’ll hear in any…

I am so ready for the Oppenheimer backlash, should it ever arrive. So many silly biopic tropes I thought we were done with. “Ah, September 1, 1939. A date that shall be forever known for one thing and one thing only: Black holes.” “One ‘no’ vote was from a young senator from Massachusetts, I believe his name is…

Very happy to see Past Lives in the top slot. And not to see Oppenheimer there. This year there has been a lot of formulaic filmmaking, which is why Maestro and Rustin and other Netflix engineered stuff isn’t making the short lists they were engineered to make. I felt that way about Oppenheimer, and May December, and a…

No mention of the secretary sketch? Heidi was hilarious in that one, as was James Austin Johnson in his brief bit. Far and away the funniest, weirdest, giddiest skit of the night.

It does seem ridiculous and wasteful for studios to invest so heavily in hundred million dollar projects, seemingly at the expense of smaller, lower-budget projects. I certainly don’t think we’re getting better movies from it.

When I was younger I always felt deeply embarrassed when one of my friends would nakedly detail our shared socio-economic-political beliefs. It’s like, yeah I agree, but it sounds so fucking stupid when you say it out loud like that. This guy is almost 70 and is sounding like an 18 year old.

Will there be anything posted on the AVClub in commemoration of Terence Davies’ passing?

That line legitimately made me sick to my stomach. People on social media saying that the movie didn’t do enough to condemn the people in charge of the Manhattan Project 100% didn’t watch the movie.

He’s voiced by an actual 15-year-old. You’re thrown off because you’re used to the Turtles being voice acted by grown men in their 30's.

Counterpoint: Both those movies are masterclasses in non-linear story telling and exploration of the notion of time, the likes of which the vast majority of writers, directors and producers out there would belly flop trying to pull off. To not like them, find them boring, or subjectively his “very worst” is fine, but…

It’s like the fifth highest grossing movie of the entire past decade. And you’re mystified why he gets attention?

You won’t see heavy-hitting A-List Celebs walking the picket line daily because then someone might ask them a simple “Would you take less so others get more?” It’s a loaded question that gets thrown at the Studio Execs who fumble the reply... Can you imagine some of the barely literate we’ve seen talk circles about…

One of the greatest joys of the last few years of pop culture has been the end result of Nolan moving Oppenheimer to Universal out of spite for Warner brothers, and Warner brothers scheduling Barbie on the same day as Oppenheimer out of spite for Nolan, has resulted in TWO radically different, but exciting movies by…

anyone else doing boppenheimer? 2pm oppy and 6:40pm barbie with a meal somewhere in between.