This isn't about whether you like him, though. Perlman's story is a lot of screenwriters' stories - she was assigned and attached to that thing, her name stayed on it for credit and for some of the plot material, but my understanding is that a filmmaker came in and remade the whole project. That happens to a lot of…

It's very much a James Gunn movie.

I've heard both takes. I think the truth is frankly somewhere in-between. But I also think the Internet seized upon her name and made her into something emblematic vs. the actual reality of the process, which is that, IIRC, she was in that writing program and then the film took off around her.

2 months late: I think it was both. She wanted to unload her shit to someone who would listen, she cares about Marco, but she also wanted to work him and get him off the scent. She can do all those things at once and still genuinely be raw in her feelings and still genuinely care for him - while at the same time…

Good.

I did nozzhing

I love everything about the aesthetic of "The Cage". And Number One!

I was at a low-rent awards ceremony a few years back where Neal McDonough was apparently a regular fixture and the generally-accepted unofficial MC (the actual host that year, no less than Jay Mohr, was barely noticed).

I still don't understand why no one's made a new adventure game like the wonderful 25th Anniversary PC game from when I was a kid. Exploration! Diplomacy! The fucking impossible final mission!

So hype

oh god

Michelle McNamara's work on the Golden State Killer was spellbinding and terrifying. I had no idea the woman who investigated those murders was Patton Oswalt's wife until the day she died.

God, who cares

Showgirls has gotten me through a lot of rough times. It's terrible but wonderful.

I'll pray for you!

Shoulda asked him about his role in the new Twin Peaks!

Commenting two months late to say I think critics had it in for the show going in because it was a super-slow build in a new medium, and because of the flash-forward in S1 (the latter was unnecessary, IMO). Also, they worshipped Ben Mendelsohn's performance and decided very quickly that the show was to be deemed…

Steve's bat-spin was the sickest thing this year so far

This wasn't Hollywood.

I like Constance Wu, but the part that really set me off was how the only reference to the Chinese being the ones making the movie was suggesting the hapless POC were complicit in their oppression.