Yeah, most of it is French or German (in some cases possibly Yiddish), but I seem to remember some Spanish or Italian too, as well as something in a language (or languages) I couldn’t identify with any confidence but that I assumed was Farsi.

Oh damn! I like both shows, but I was at peace with Brooklyn Nine-Nine ending after a good run, while Great News is being taken before its time. Overall, not a good trade!

Amen to that! Like a wonderful trance from beginning to end.

Whatever happens in these final episodes, the one thing I’m really hoping for is that we’ll finally get Erik to pluralize “Jenningses” correctly.

I went to see a film with a cousin of mine a while back, and during the opening credits he pulled out his phone and started messaging... and didn’t stop even once the movie had actually started. (We were sitting in the middle of a packed, big-screen cinema.)

I don’t really agree. Loads of rom-coms are pretty low-budget, so that didn’t really bother me about TCT, and I think Angie Tribeca mines a lot of great laughs out of its cheapness (e.g. the way any other police station visited is obviously just the same set, dressed with some ridiculous decorations). NTSF:SD:SUV:: is…

The rom-com spoof They Came Together from 2014 was alright (it has Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd as the starcrossed couple, which goes a long way). And I thought Lonely Island’s Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping from 2016 was OK, if that counts as a spoof. The 2015 Melissa McCarthy vehicle Spy isn’t half-bad, either,…

I wouldn’t call it a fuckup. It was a deliberate choice to protect an innocent, made in full awareness of the risk he was taking by doing so.

Man, I need to read the new edition, because I’m 99% sure none of those great examples were in the Everyday Things I have; it’s all doorhandles, thermostats and push-button telephones.

I’ve never been a fan of comics “events” (they’re just about as lame as network TV theme nights that force their shows to all crowbar the same dumb thing in), and the infinity stone mcguffins and the Thanos cameos have been some of the weakest parts of the MCU movies to date, so this review is exactly in line with my…

When the outrage first happened, them taking on video game avatars hadn’t been revealed yet, I don’t think – or even that Jumanji was going to be a video game this time around. I remember someone (here?) came very close to guessing the rationale behind the outfits, speculating that they were boardgame player pieces…

I read the book as an adult and found it pretty creepy then. The movie less so, but still well outside what I would consider for the 5-9 range.

Can’t you just read some of the many, many critical appreciations that have been written about it, including on this site? It seems rather pointless to rehash points that have been made so often before.

Who said anything about an unregulated, market-based system? Sellers were presumably highly regulated by temple authorities, and buyers were obliged to buy because it was their religious duty.

How do you establish a fair price for ritual money and animals? It’s arbitrary pretty much by definition.

It doesn’t even make sense!

It can be a little better, actually. Probably since they have less competition and there’s less effort to strategically deny them the rights to high-profile stuff. I was pretty excited to see that they have The Lost City of Z on Scandinavian Netflix, for example. Don’t think that’s available in the US.

The remake arguably isn’t actively bad, but it’s a The Vanishing situation where it is thoroughly average and generic while the original is excellent and far more distinctive, so of course people are going to shit on it. (And no, there’s no novel.)

It’s a brilliant film. You can’t quite tell whether Skarsgård’s character is coming unhinged from lack of sleep or if the permanent daylight is just exposing the rot that was always at his core.

Well, this is why I don’t think oversimplified, carelessly worded assertions are the right approach to online debate. It’s what you were doing, and if we’re supposed to cut you some slack on the literal accuracy, doesn’t he have a right to the same consideration?