That day was supper nerve-wracking! I would have been devastated...

I’m with you. The Last Duel was intelligent yet brawny, insightful but completely watchable. It’s filmmaking done right, and maybe it was hard to market so that’s why it flopped, but yeah, it’s a way better movie than Don’t Look Up

It usually works:

Russ Tamblyn’s kid?

“It’s fine if you like David Cross more than me.”

Just one more thing to be thankful of Rhea Seehorn for, she saved Bob’s life.

Without picking on anyone film, lets face it, the Oscars are a high stakes, highly political, artsy popularity contest where industry influencers play a big role. My view of cinema for the last two years overall could be summarized in two words: dumpster fire. This has been a great time to make films, but a horrific…

The “familiar territory” part is incredibly frustrating since it ignores the fact that the universe is a REALLY big place and 99.9999999999999% of characters inhabiting it are never going to come in contact with one another. Yet everyone seems to not only know each other but what everyone’s up to.  There are so many…

Hot take: West Side Story sucked. Why is it that musicals get a pass? Make a decent looking musical with a couple of big names in it and you’re guaranteed an Oscar it seems like.

My impression has been that they were sending up Han Solo and that Disney was fine with a light tone but they feared that it was going to be making Han Solo into a fool and that spooked them. They were also spooked by innovation, given that there was such a loud and unhinged backlash against The Last Jedi because it…

*Looks for The Last Duel*
*Remembers The Last Duel didn’t get a single nomination*
*Is sad*

Don’t Look Up was preachy and unsubtle which, hey, maybe some people need that to get a fucking clue about climate change and misinformation, etc. even though the likelihood of this movie being watched by people who aren’t already liberal is pretty small. But ok, let’s say that’s who you’re aiming for. Then at least…

West Side Story did a great job expanding on the scope of the original and deepening the story but couldn’t match the vocals and choreography. Between this and the Elgort performance it's too flawed to edge out Power of the Dog.

Smug is not a disqualifier. I mean I know people who still love The West Wing, which was wall-t0-wall smug for what, 30 or 40 seasons. 

Every real person I’ve ever talked to liked it a lot. Online critics have too much pick me energy.

Yeah, I don’t get all the criticism either. I was interested in seeing it from the start but held off because I heard so many negative things. Once I did see it, I really enjoyed the plot, the satire, the acting. Did I bust a gut laughing? No. But a lot of it was funny, and the ending has stuck with me for weeks. All…

Too much hate for Don’t Look Up. It’s no masterpiece but I thought it was fun.

Obviously it’s different strokes but I absolutely hated the sight of the biker gang and their patches. That immediately reminded me I was watching a TV show. It was like one of those episodes of Star Trek where some specifically earth culture has inexplicably reappeared billions of light years away. So I didn’t like…

“The Book of Boba Fett” is conceived from the beginning as “Mandalorian 2.5" rather than its own thing.

The recurring flaw in the Star Wars universe is the gatekeepers continue trying to double-down on things and ideas that have already succeeded instead of attempting to break new ground. Even when they stumble into something new and good like “The Mandalorian,” their next move with “The Book of Boba Fett” is conceived…