I always wait for the end credit scene when Buscemi decides to hilariously go agro in the store. It was also the first time I really saw Buscemi as more than just a highly talented character actor. He had some amazing moments throughout the film and carried his weight as a leading man well.

Ah, Crash, the film that killed subtlety stone-dead. (Double-entendre stayed alive, though, until Hailee Steinfeld made “Love Myself”.)

I thought the beauty of the film was the unraveling of that friendship. They didn’t have a super huge blow out but we’re growing apart. It’s all about those relationships and it is difficult to convey in a film.

To me, part of the issue with the poster is the denial of racism, not just anti-PC claims (although that too). That’s what Enid and the art teacher don’t get, but why Seymour said he kept it, because it reminded him that it’s the same as it was in the past but that people just try to be more secret about it. Enid is a…

I love your post - thanks for writing it.

I grew up the same way as a white guy in a small West Texas town but I totally identified with the girls in the movie. I loved it. Still do and ill probably buy the Criterion version.

She is so good in it. ScarJo too.

“Whip smart” is one of those condescending terms men use to describe women they deem of above average intelligence.

uhhh.... I’m a South Asian Muslim immigrant and Ghost World was my #1 movie in 2001...shit, I watched it a thousand times on dvd and I was obsessed with the graphic novel and the website. I graduated from high school the same year the movie came out and I hated everyone with equal passion like Enid and Becky, and my…

I’d just like to add that it’s a damn shame that Thora Birch’s career, for various reasons, hit an iceberg. She’s so good in this and should have gone on to even better things.

Trudeau: Did he try that handshake bullshit on you?
Macron: Oh yeah, he totally did. Thanks for the tips.

“...According to the Post, the seventh grader has been in the school’s honors program for two years and has never been a discipline problem....”

Gotta disagree here. This was pretty shitty to give something like that to a kid. I remember being a kid and having an adult joke to me about something but I didn’t get it because they’re an adult and I took almost everything they said seriously. They had to explain it was a joke. I know the teachers were laughing as…

The teachers’ lounge is the one place in a school where the adults can go and ‘joke’ about how shitty the kids generally are.. it’s their safe place. And everything outside of that should revolve around the children. That’s how a school works, or at least is supposed to. This was nothing short of evil. 

Straight up, this is probably why he was so chill with Ivanka converting and why he loves his son in law enough to put him in a position of power in the White House. Like he clearly wasn’t thinking hey it’s illegal when he put his daughter on staff. The other two are basically on Tiffany status because good ol’ Donald…

I highly recommend the NYT’s article about Jared the Slumlord. Seems that little Jared gets his jollies suing poor people for tiny bits of money (to him, not to them).

Do you ever get a feeling like we’re living in The Pod People movie? There can’t be that many willful idiots out there ... right?

I found that weird too. The way it was racially diverse but didn’t seem that way, and the original which had 3 -4 white leads seemed more diverse than this. Really odd.

My mom went on a furious rant about them “making it racial!” And I was like “so talking about race is....worse than abortion?”

That dude was out acted by the log he danced on.