I liked it but could they have picked a more generic title? Was The Fake Hitman’s Potential Client’s Wife’s Bodyguard taken or something?

What could be more timely than a June 2024 post resuscitating a niche cultural debate from 2015 about a 1949 Christmas song?

‘It’s a song about, as our Britt Hayes put it, “a woman being held hostage by some guy who may or may not have drugged her adult beverage.”’

Christ, isn’t a little early for the “Baby It’s Cold Outside” clickbait discourse machine to fire up again? Didn’t we settle this years ago, or has the COVID brain fog destroyed that part of our collective memory?

Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze are the music video GOATs for me. Just an insane amount of classic, often inventive videos. Jonathan Glazer is right up there too, and then I’d add a guy who curiously never broke out into feature films - Chris Cunningham (Aphex Twin’s “Come to Daddy” and “Windowlicker” videos and Bjork’s…

I didn’t know she was Laraine Newman’s kid!  Now it makes sense:  clever and funny as hell, and easy on the eyes.

AGREED

I don’t know how much Miller cared about continuity across the first three films, but the timeline did make logical sense. 1. he’s a cop in a society as things are falling apart, 2. he’s now a wanderer post-war who can’t help himself but get involved, 3. he’s an older wanderer post-war. It’s really just Fury Road and…

It doesn’t — once the film is released, it belongs to the audience, and the director is just another audience member.

The Tom Hardy casting matters because the rest of the world in Fury Road appears to be much further along in the apocalypse than what we saw in Road Warrior or Thunderdome, when the collapse felt fresh and most adults seemed to remember the war.

I’m in favor of keeping the sublimated chemistry going on but stopping returning to the well of teasing things advancing only to pull back. Long-term work crushes are real, but it could be a hell of a lot less soapy. 

YES!!!! Mellisa and Jacob becoming roommates was way more interesting than the will-they-won’t-they very forced plot.

I love Abbott, I love Gregory and I love Janine, but I’m a little played out on the Gregory-Janine will they/won’t they. For me, the strength of the show is in the ensemble and how they all play so differently with the challenges of the setting.

Damn this diversity stuff really triggers you huh

Just the last bit? They start with “Contemporary media does not have a representation problem.” which is arguably needlessly antagonistic.

White people did not make up the word Latinx. For that matter, the modern usage of the words Latina and Latino was started in California. Latinx’s usage increased in the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub shooting as non-binary latinx folk used it to describe themselves. While Latinx itself may not be stick around, it…

“Cypher is a New Yorker”.

‘X-Men: First Class’ is a fun little flick, but man it does not do well by it’s characters of colour. Angel, as you say, betrays the team, and Darwin, a Black mutant whose power is “adapt to literally anything to survive” is the one member of the group to get straight-up killed, and then is not mentioned again.

Yeah the fact that the New Mutant movie Roberto was fairer skinned kinda sucked

Zoe Kravitz’ Angel character was nominally meant to be Afro-Latina right, but they cast her and the character rapidly turned evil?