To my annoyance, this isn’t opening here this weekend.

I mean without the scandal Gore would have surely had enough votes to win 2000. 

I don’t see how it’s a screenwriting issue.  She’s there to be a fun cameo role, she makes that sequence fun, and then she’s finished; always leave ‘em wanting more.

I realize that British tabloids are trash, but in this day and age there would be a strong counter-narrative about mental health—particularly for men—that would emerge immediately after hogwash like the Soccer Saturday rant from Ted’s predecessor, and so it was weird for the show to pretend as though there was no…

I personally never thought Ted had any responsibility for Nate’s increasing dickishness. Nate can be expected to be professional, and he never received anything but goodwill and opportunity from Ted. That he stewed in petty resentment of Roy being added to the team, etc. just makes him look immature.

Men’s fashion after the mid-1960s fell off a cliff that it would take decades to recover from. Watching Mad Men in regard to the progression of Don’s work clothes is like watching a trainwreck in slow motion.

Strictly speaking, Eric did that, since he missed the final season.

This excites me just about as much as that Gatsby musical from fucking Florence.

Seydoux is absolutely an actor on Craig’s level, if you aren’t familiar with her other work.  Spectre didn’t make the best use of her, by any means, which is true of most of the cast.

I don’t think it can really be put down to “good timing”, since all movies these days need to build an individual case for audiences to go see them.

I completely disagree — Grand Budapest I’d call his most emotional film.

It’s inspiring to see her (and Land) climb out of the abyss. But Maid is limited by the white lens through which it is told. The show is empathetic about the plight of women like Alex, but doesn’t do enough to demonstrate how distinct their experiences are. Nor does it acknowledge the level of privilege that Alex, a…

Tenenbaums is in the upper-middle of the pack for me — the one-two punch of Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel (each my favourite film of their respective years) is going to be very hard for him to ever top.

Also, specifically, it would seem to have its roots in slash fanfiction (which Novik has also said she wrote), since the main character is a girl equivalent to Draco Malfoy, at least in terms of their initial antagonism toward the Harry Potter equivalent.

Novik got her start as a fanfic writer, including Harry Potter, so I wouldn’t say Harry Potter has nothing to do with it.

That was one of the dumbest moments of the backlash, since they felt the need to weigh in on something not being nominated in a completely different category.

The first season of this shallow but pleasant trifle generated one of the most ridiculously over-the-top backlashes in the past few years.

If you look at the demographics of who watches broadcast TV these days, I would say the presumed primary audience is people who enjoyed the original show when they were younger.

Yes, that was the point the review was making about MLK.

Froseth should probably be cast as Anya Taylor-Joy’s sister at some point.