“I farted once on the set of Blue Lagoon”

Didn’t Stein’s brother condemn The Autobiography of Alice D. Toklas for historical inaccuracy? ;)

The historical biopic genre is probably appealing because - as with the history itself - its a genre overwhelmingly dominated by straight white men. Queer people are told - subtly by the dominant culture, and probably quite literally by some terrible people - that they’re an aberration from normal sexuality. Art…

I genuinely thought that was DeVito rather than Richter in the photo.

I always thought that it was ‘Vai’ rather than ‘riot’. I’m not making that up, am I? ‘R’ is pretty distinct from ‘V’.

EDIT: yes, apparently I am making that up. ‘Riot’ seems clear as day now that I listen to it again. I’m going to blame the quality of mp3s ripped by teenage-me.

I’ve read the Wikipedia plot summary several times since seeing the film to try to understand more of the plot so I’ve seen these character names written out several times, and I still can’t remember what Pattinson’s character was called.

I dunno, there were some really unwelcome echoes of Primer in Tenet and that shit totally set Caruth up for a lifetime of fawning reviews until he turned out to be an abusive prick, even though the nicest thing that I can say about Primer is that it isn’t Upstream Color.

Between those two songs specifically, yeah, sure. ‘Rollin’ is one of LB’s dumbest songs in a career that’s not exactly lacking them. I’ll take their occasional moments of brilliance (relative to nu metal of course) over LP’s entirely forgettable oeuvre though, any day.

I know that the answer to this mystery is ‘bland, lowest common denominator songwriting’, but it still blows my mind that Evanescence and Linkin Park were the ones that survived the nu metal backlash and went from strength (commercial, not creative, obviously) to strength.

That's... not a raise.

McBurney is excellent, but he’s in his 60s whereas Polanski was 40 when he made Chinatown. Not saying that McBurney can’t play a 40 year old, Johansson can’t play a tree etc., but the guy who played Polanski in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Rafał Zawierucha) is currently 33, which it’d probably be easier to age up…

Her film looks really good and, annoyingly, very much along the same thematic lines of something I’ve been wanting to write for years.

The signs were always there for this one. Who’d have thought that the guy who directs, writes, stars in, and scores his terrible films (and made a Malick knock-off so that he could make out on camera with a younger actress who – oh yeah, would later file a restraining order against him) would be a controlling prick?

I don’t know if you’re of a different generation to me (or nationality, or anything else that would alter views on this) but I know that it’s taken me an embarrassingly long time to see that there is intrinsically a problem with blacking up for comedy. The real sticker for me is Papa Lazarou from The League of…

Yeah as I recall there was some decent stuff on Mesmerize (‘Cigaro’ is coming to mind) but some pretty cringey stuff too. Hypnotize... I don’t really remember Hypnotize at all, except for the ‘most loneliest day of my life’ lyric, which really confirmed that it was time to call it a day.

tbf the last two or three were shite, so it’s probably for the best.

The short is wildly overrated. The main technical conceit is decent, but it’s fatally undermined by the ending.

“The studio is also apparently “very high””

“laid bear”?? You’re better than this, Dowd.