One great subtle joke I picked up on thanks to Penn and Teller: magicians actually tend to prefer the term “trick” to “illusion,” as it better indicates that the magician actively did something to make it work.

I would just like to say I would absolutely take money to shitpost on critics. Are you listening, Mr. Bloys?

I keep coming back to that Arrow episode where the reviewer forgot that Robert Queen had killed a guy in the first episode, so the whole article was just surreal as she kept acting like that was a ridiculous retcon.

“A related problem is that post-Endgame MCU has favored quantity over quality, and fans and critics alike have taken notice.”

Nia DaCosta started working on a whole other movie during post-production. Yeah, this is completely unheard of in Hollywood and must point to some huge problem with the movie.

The Dolores Claiborne movie proves that it is possible to adapt this kind of narrative structure to film; you just need to make a firm decision on what the big important part of it is going to be (in that movie’s case, Dolores’ present day relationship with her daughter) and build everything else around that. Truly…

I’ll stand up for the Rita storyline just for how it expertly takes the piss out of the “manic pixie dream girl” idea at a time before the public had really started to turn on it. The entire family so easily believing a grown woman is deliberately acting like a carefree six year old just because her accent makes her…

This feels a lot like that bizarre review this site did of Jumanji: The Next Level where the writer was inexplicably befuddled about the very concept of sequels, and acted like it was completely unreasonable that the movie expected you to have seen the last one. Who exactly are these legions of people who are…

Didn’t he recently go on some huge rant about “woke” people? That really cuts down on how much slack I’m willing to cut him.

Seeing The Heiress on his front page is so gratifying. I’ve been telling people to check it out for so long now.

It’s incredibly obvious that the character in-universe is putting on that performance, and he’s much more subdued later at the house. The only thing that threw me was his calling Leo, just six years younger than him, a “dumb boy.”

Maybe this first half will end shortly after Diana’s death, but Morgan has confirmed its true endpoint is 2010. And he says he may well do a follow-up season about more recent events once enough time has passed and historical hindsight has racked up that he feels comfortable dramatizing it.

The first couple years of Rifftrax were at the tail end of when simply calling someone gay was a guaranteed crowd pleaser, and the Lord of the Rings riffs especially suffer from them seeming to think simply pointing out Ian McKellan is gay in real life is the funniest thing ever.

Can we just appreciate how this show apparently has the only fanbase out there with ZERO troublesome edgelord jerks? We’ve now had a black Tom Servo for more than five years, and a female Crow for a couple, and there hasn’t been a single peep against it as far as I’ve seen.

I can only have a certain amount of sympathy for someone who willingly triggers themselves like this. There’s absolutely no way I can buy she didn’t know what the movie would entail, and she could just not watch it if it would have that much of an effect on her.

Literally the only thing I know about this franchise is that they doxxed their entire fanbase over a tote bag, plus something about shitty rum. But I’m absolutely here for Nolan and Joy.

Universal was so confident in this one that they actually made that cast announcement before they’d even talked to everyone on it, figuring that of course they’d want to get on board a new big franchise after the MCU showed how big they could be.

I’m still having a hard time believing I was able to see a new Scorsese/De Niro movie this week.

He made several, so it’s not likely.

Hussey herself is still alive at 84, making this one of those odd times where the real person outlives the actor who played them. That’s always an odd feeling that adds to the tragedy of it.