I’m not saying one way or the other re: Gerwig as I’ve never quite understood what standards the awards use to determine these noms. But I will say that the qualities of the movie you’re discussing seem much more in line with the screenwriting as opposed to the directing. I totally agree with your assessment but it…

He should at least give the first person to guess correctly an iPad.

I don’t see anything cruel. “Drunk enough to get banned from the Opry” is a pretty broad group of performers. I think it’s fine to have a laugh and hope she gets her shit together.

Wolf look like wolf.

This site in its current form has no idea how to wield sarcasm, or which targets to go after, so it just kinda flails around in all directions at once.

Yeah, and the fact that they’re not holding him liable as producer makes it even weirder, because I sincerely doubt that prosecutors would be this aggressive if Alec Baldwin’s stunt double were the one who pulled the trigger. (I’m also certain that social media users—and AVC writers—would be way more sympathetic if it…

She also said: ““Western media only shows the [Israeli] side. Why do they do that, I will let you deduce for yourself.” Not sure what she’s implying by that, but you wouldn’t have to be a purely bad-faith actor to read something fairly offensive there.

Oh my god? For profit businesses make decisions that earn more money!!!? Have you told anyone else about this yet? Get the word out!!!!!

I too need exercise after eating too many wontons.

hostility and smug superiority

I thought “motherfuckers” was the second in a list of categories there.

“I have to go now. My planet needs me.”

I’m confident that Mr. Shore will supply the same thoughtful gravitas, subtlety, and attention to detail he puts into all of his roles.

Of all the choices to play Barbie in the early 90's, there was no way the studios were going to go with the lady famous for showing her vagina on film.* There was already enough heat going on with Batman being to violent to sell McDonald’s toys.

I think ‘Barbie’ has found just the right time period to exist. The 90s were too drenched in irony for it to work; it would have come across as crass and cynical. The early thousands were too sincere; it would have been toothless and maudlin. Everyone was too angry and depressed in the teens. But here and now, I think…

“How far we’ve come thank you ladies for your courage and endurance.”

It will certainly pay for the blow!

The era from (roughly) Oz to, oh, I don’t know, the first season of True Detective is pretty consistently held by critics as a period in which TV dramas took significant strides forward in terms of having levels of quality previously associate with film.

I distinctly remember finishing Winter’s Bone, turning to my mom, and saying, “wow that young actress is astonishing, too bad she’s so un-Hollywood and nobody will ever get the chance to see her talent.”

Blood Simple. Do you like rural-Texas-roadside-nighttime-burials with a couple of more twists to boot? If ‘yes’, this flick is still on HBO Max.