The problem with Spacey is that he’s a great actor. If he was merely mediocre then there wouldn’t be this horrible ambivalence about his work.

Everyone has pronouns, including you. Relax.

Using he/she/they is the exact opposite of high maintenance, it means JVN is OK with feminine, masculine or neutral pronouns. Their assholery has nothing to do with their gender identity. There are plenty of colossal, high maintenance cis-gendered assholes.

it’s almost as if gender fluidity is... fluid.

Agreed! Not unlike the trailer for Pink Flamingos, which looks like straight up shit made in a Baltimore crack house. The production values are terrible! Don’t even get me started on that Todd Haynes Superstar Barbie movie shit - anyone could’ve made that! I believe “camp” should be reserved for summertime hijinks and…

Great movie! Saw it unnamed at a “secret screening" last January. Loved it! Probably seeing it again. Tix are already on sale here for screenings in April and May. Glad they got the legal nonsense sorted so it can have a proper release.

Yeah it was really funny re: Bobby being given such a short shrift. Like essentially if you go on Queer Eye the real prize is a fucking 5-figure home renovation lol. Everything else is gravy.

Some of these dynamics aren’t that shocking—it was clear pretty much by season 2 or 3 that the “best friends” thing was a schtick. They’re coworkers. And that’s fine! Sometimes coworkers get petty. Not particularly shocked that JVN is all drama and not as sunny off screen, but it’s disappointing to hear how bad it…

Marvel really needs another Winter Soldier right now. Not only was it a great movie, it managed to pull Marvel out of its first slump. Avengers was a high point but Iron Man 3 had a mixed reception and Thor: Dark World was unloved. Winter Soldier really needed to be a win. That and Guardians vol 1 kinda proved Marvel…

The tone of this piece is weird. Ignoring the current state of the MCU (which I’ve personally moved on from), are we going to pretend that the Infinity Saga wasn’t 1) fun as hell and 2) a genuine narrative feat tying together 23 movies over an 11 year stretch?

I’d watch Winslet read the phonebook, but this was a wonderful delight. The range she showed in just the first episode was remarkable and it was so enjoyable to watch her flex her comedic talents, which have always been apparent (see, also: Extras, among other things), but never the most prominent part of her career.…

I’m certainly no music producer, but the beat feels like it’s missing...something. It’s rather pared down to the point where you’re expecting some big explosion of sound that doesn’t arrive.

A knowledgeable but unempowered and overextended professional will always fail. Armors are life-and-death positions. Producers who skimp on such a role are directly responsible for whatever happens. 

I mostly agree, but part of the issue is that the industry standards work when they’re followed. Accidents happen when the crew is rushing and ignores those standards, like hiring two full-time armorers for a production like Rust.

Absolutely and if this was a union production it would have been.  The producers were doing this cheap and using non-union staff outside of California to “save cost” and that ended with someone dead

As much as I hate the idea of yelling “nepo baby” for everyone who has ever gotten a job from knowing or being related to someone(I got my internship that led to my first career job because my Dad knew some people so I can’t judget), in this case it was clear her Dad got her a job she may have not be qualified to do.

It strikes me as a producer answering journalists’ questions.

The film was originally budgeted to have a full-time armorer, but to save money the producers combined that job with a prop assistant role. My understanding is that the new budget called for whoever they hired to be paid the hourly rate for an armorer half the time (not sure if week or day) and the prop assistant rate…

Punch-Drunk Love is still, somehow, underrated.

I totally get the artistic grieving. In my case, reason I’m not angrier at Kanye is because I basically jumped ship after Life of Pablo.