In real life he’s likely not going to prison for that. It was entrapment. Maybe they get him for breaking and entering? It wasn’t his gun. A good lawyer explains that Barry thought he had just stopped Gene Cousineau from killing Mr. Moss and wanted to warn Moss, but was afraid that Moss might be armed and waiting, so…

Limiting an account to a physical location is only a problem if you think Netflix gives a shit about screwing over customers. Seeing as how we’re even talking about an anti-sharing crackdown in the first place, it seems pretty obvious just how much Netflix cares.

I heard he repeatedly referred to a female coworker as ‘an ignorant slut’.

Yeah, it’s been ages since I’ve seen ZD30 as well, but I remember they get the information they need when they trick a detainee into thinking he gave them information...*because* he’d been sleep deprived *because* of their torture. So it’s still torture working in a de facto way, and certainly not the rosy…

Broadly, this isn’t particularly accurate, even outside of the oxymoronic (or at least confusing) phrase “increasingly less.” Phantom Thread, PTA’s previous film, was one of his higher-grossing efforts in the U.S., and Wes Anderson is only on a downward trajectory if you limit your analysis to three movies—one of…

I saw Nomadland in 2020 and I am not a critic. But don’t let that stop you from counting films however you want. Power to the people, etc.

That’s the internet for you. You get something totally reasonable - say, trans people should probably be cast as trans characters - and get it all twisted out of proportion by people trying to one-up each other.

The one ‘celebrity’ I want to see on Cameo. I would pay seriously good money for a strange, oblique, mordant birthday message from Herzog for a couple of my friends.  

I’m sure he’ll determine they weren’t living their lives as fully and truthfully as the nutjob.

I hope Herzog’s book takes into account the pain this nutjob caused the residents of Lubang.

The Japanese kid who contacted Lt. Onoda wanted to find him, a panda, and a yeti, in that order. He found a panda soon after, but died in an avalanche while looking for the yeti. He also was quite lucky that Lt. Onoda did not shoot him, unlike the approximately 30 Philippine civilians that he killed (mostly to steal…

Cancel culture is a buzzy phrase that’s mostly used to reduce a complicated question to a binary issue that people can quickly take sides on. That question is “should the things a person does or says affect their ability to work in profitable, high-profile industries?”

The people who are philosophically opposed to…

I’ve said this before but here we go again: “Hollywood” isn’t a thing. It’s a word used to describe the film industry. Sometimes, it’s limited to the American film industry; sometimes it’s the film industry in general; other times it’s to talk about celebrities, American or not.

As insane as it sounds, he couldn’t possibly been worse than Greg Abbott.

My bad, I thought he was nominated for something for Carnage in 2011, but that was just Kate Winslet and Jodie Foster. But I suppose the point still stands, since that movie had the willing participation of A-list stars/Oscar winners.

Honestly hard to imagine how the Grammys could implement a system where they barred artists for such transgressions. As far as I know, Manson hasn’t been charged with a crime (though he faces multiple lawsuits) and Louis CK isn’t accused of committing a crime, he’s been accused of (and admitted to) sexual misconduct.…

Hoover, who has made public efforts to reform his Gangster Disciples into a community organization.

I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion, but I ultimately didn’t mind the Snyder Cut. Once you ignore the way it was conceived and the dumb slow-mo bits, it was an okay if self-serious superhero movie.

This is doubly weird for me, since I’ve always referred to 9/11 as the wardrobe malfunction of America’s foreign policy.

Hes suing for “almost being injured by discharge from a bullet?” Is that another way of saying emotional distress? Seems like lost wages would be a better way to go, unless that was already covered by production insurance.