Wait until they have sex on a boat.

I like Sam Elliott a ton but he does seem to have bought into his own gimmick.

That take sort of misses the point, though, where a core theme is that Phil and his “cowboys” are imitating something they learned from a man who was himself imitating something he felt he had to be. The movie is definitely meant to subvert the Western genre and themes. To say “they aren’t real cowboys” is to call out…

“Oh, but making a whole fucking MOVIE about it is okay!”

Yeah getting mad at a movie for being too gay is totally not stupid and hateful

I’m less concerned with your bad opinion and more with the fact that you think The Sisters Brothers came out last year and First Cow was called Cow. I didn’t really care for the former and liked the latter quite a bit, but I don’t see how either has much relation to The Power of the Dog beyond the setting.

The Western movie genre has become this avatar for a certain type of American masculinity which has been apparently very pervasive and toxic in American culture. So the movies have been a way to interrogate gender stereotypes, men told not to be emotional and show affection to their loved ones, dominating others (…

I’d concede that Last Duel is better than Nightmare Alley; there’s that. My personal quibble with it is that I absolutely did not need to sit through that rape scene more than once and I think it was a failure of imagination to decide that this was absolutely the only way to get their point across (that she was…

definitely the best movie of the year, your friends have bad taste my dear.

And a vaccine.

It’d be cool if these season/series pre-air reviews would like... mention WHEN the thing being reviewed airs. But they never seem to. Certainly not prominently.

Came here to say this. You have my sword for this one, Dowd.

celebrating a half-remembered, half-imagined era when the owners of publications actually gave two shits about their writers and the subjects they wrote about.

Journalistic question - why doesn’t this just say “accused of rape”? Because both these acts as alleged constitute rape.  Given the weird world where less terrible conduct (Aziz’s “misconduct”) is somehow lumped into this, I feel like picking words with caution is wise.  I wouldn’t want someone walking away thinking…

You are thinking of Led Tasso. Totally different person.

I don’t see any reason that Robert Wise should be the only director who ever gets a shot at adapting West Side Story.

For all those in the comments asking why a new version of the classic is needed, don’t forget that the famous version had white actors in brown face playing Puerto Ricans.

The Daniel arc (or lack thereof) was the most frustrating part of the entire season for me.

He was incredibly relevant for the first 3 episodes (getting stuck in China when Covid hit, then angling to get the evening news spot, then butting heads with the higher ups and going off the reservation when they try to placate…

I thought so too. It nailed that weird homoeroticism that seems to be at the core of the alt right.

Hey, I’m all for a “Surprise, Lumberfucker!” Doakes appearance.