I definitely can’t abide the low Magnolia rating, or the high Phantom Thread placing. As you say from the outset, it feels like everyone has a different PTA ranking, Having not seen Liquorice Pizza, I think mine would be:

I had no idea Tom Waits was in this until I watched the trailer just now. That’s pretty much an instant sell to me right there.

I love how it’s almost a touching moment when Logan says “Thanks son” to Tom..

It feels to me like the major theme in this season is how each of the children tries and fails to impress Logan in different ways. Roman is still a suck up who takes Logan’s abuse with ‘good humour’. Shiv is trying to BE Logan, by acting like the boss in the office and going ahead making decisions, but she forgets…

The fact that a lot of this article directly quotes Manson’s own autobiography tells you all you need to know. I’m still disturbed by a story he writes about making up his girlfriend to look like a murder victim, taking polaroids, and leaving them on a bus for an unsuspecting person to find, and that’s probably the…

“Greg, you Ichabod Crane fuck!” is one of my favourite lines from the entire series so far.

Roman casually revealing that Connor was the one who took him fishing might be the saddest moment in Succession so far. The evolution of Roman has been my favourite character arc across the series. He was such a relentless (but amusing) dickhead, yet with each new reveal of his childhood, you can tell he’s the most…

I’m the same, for pretty much exactly the same reasons. While I’m very fond of Shaun of the Dead because it was my introduction to Wright, Pegg and Frost (as well as possibly the first zombie film I ever saw), rewatching it again recently made me realise that the final 30 minutes or so has never really worked for me.…

While Hot Fuzz is probably my pick for the best, I think The World’s End might be my secret favourite. Partly because I really disliked it when it was released and it’s grown on me with every viewing, but also, I think the slightly more melancholic tone gives it that extra depth that the other films don’t have.

I agree that Roman and Kendall are the most fascinating pairing. Rewatching Season 1, I was struck by the moment at Tom’s bachelor party when Kendall shoves Roman after remembering his Dad sending Roman away because he was seen as the weakest. I think the two have some shared trauma that has created their bond, but I…

She’s so fantastically awful in Succession that I can’t help but love her character, despite how passive aggressive and sniping she is. I think once you meet her, it does put the puzzle pieces together where you imagine her and Logan as parents and realise why the kids are how they are. The scene where she goes around…

The ending was the second time I’ve genuinely gasped out loud at WWDITS this season (the first was the boxer getting his head punched off in Vegas). I definitely did not see that coming.

I was mostly onboard with this episode as a reasonably satisfying conclusion to what was IMO a patchy season, but I thought those three jumps were just awkward? Almost like they couldn’t think of a smooth way to wrap things up, so they just bludgeoned in three separate epilogues. Roy and Keeley’s relationship has been…

I also felt this. Every character felt a bit different, and not necessarily in a way you’d expect. Like, character progression is great, but it almost felt like a bit of a reset. Nandor is even softer than before and now interested in love, Nadja felt much harsher and tougher, and Laszlo was... kind of just there…

Honestly, almost any major play in The Wire could have gotten an Emmy nomination and it would have been deserved. Dominic West for his breakdown after Kima gets shot. Lance Reddick for pretty much anytime he’s pissed off and gives that amazing death glare. Wendell Pierce for his confrontation with Omar where he blasts…

I was quite a latecomer to Norm Macdonald, but my God I adored his work. He was just as good at doing silly Weekend Update one liners as he was doing a long winded set up to an old fashioned joke, genuinely commenting on real issues in a wry, smirking way, or telling the darkest, filthiest jokes imaginable (not to…

Omar Little was iconic for a reason. Williams turned in such a raw, layered performance that he managed to create a man who was frightening, aggressive, sensitive, emotional, and tender. On a recent rewatch of The Wire, I was struck again by the tragedy of Omar. He was a fundamentally kind-hearted person stuck in the…

It’s surely a bigger age gap than 15 years? Sam is a fairly young, inexperienced Premier League footballer, so he’s likely to be early 20s at most, while given Rebecca’s status and experience running the club, she’s likely to be no younger than mid 40s. I think their age gap is a minimum of 20 years, if not more.

I don’t know how big Girls Aloud made it across the pond, but they were massive in the UK. A fair few of their songs are club staples now, and it seems inconceivable that one of them could die so young. How awful.

Does Bantr not allow you to set an age restriction on who you want to meet? Because it seems odd to me that Rebecca would set her age limits to allow meeting somebody as young as Sam. I agree that their relationship feels very odd to me.