Some people have the weird idea that absolutely anything at all goes on stage because “it’s comedy,” like a weird perversion of what they imagine George Carlin’s take to be.

People are fine with being fooled into laughing at a comedy show. It’s what they’re there for.

People are less fine with being fooled into false sympathy at a comedy show.

Because she told us. That’s what the story is here.

JK Rowling has made this her primary cause for a few years now. It’s not just a shitty opinion she has tucked deep away in a single tweet from seven years ago, it’s the main thing she talks about in public and it’s wormed its way into her most recent works. Liking her in 2023 pretty much requires taking this shit on…

This person was brought on as a consultant to the film, along with plenty of other Osage consultants, because one of the things that makes Scorsese such a brilliant director is full knowledge and acknowledgement of his bind spots.

You wonder if Scorsese realizes that Nolan directed three of the most iconic comic book movies of them all.

Scorsese is 80 years old, and it galls him to know that the Marvel films through Avengers: Endgame represent a signature cultural event in the cinema of our time. When Marty is gone, and an entire body of work steeped in the belief that toxic masculinity is the organizing principle of the cosmos is reassessed, it…

wow much to think about thanks tipper gore

I see you also have a friend who owns Twilight Imperium.

Yeah, I never felt like he was entirely wrong there. Pierce did feel more and more like he became a vessel for the writers to get away with some offensive jokes by putting them in the mouth of a character they could wag their fingers at. He obviously shouldn’t have said the slur, but given the stuff they did have him…

There’s an implicit agreement between the audience and the comedian that mundane setups or absurd situations feature at least some fabrication, but serious or emotionally-driven stories are grounded in truth. John Mulaney’s realtor probably didn’t care if he had babies or not and it doesn’t matter, but it’d be…

That’s been the case since with Gamera for decades, to be honest. Even the original movies had surprisingly bloodier fights and more horrific monsters than what Godzilla was doing, and with the 90s trilogy it got way more pronounced (in addition to being one of the pinnacles of kaiju cinema in general).

torn between Adult Toy Story and HORN-E for this one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

I liked the Snyder cut of Justice League. It felt like the final culmination of everything he’d been trying to do with the DCU, for better or worse, and I appreciated how idiosyncratic and earnest it felt.

Employees are entitled to reasonable boundaries regardless of the (choreographed and agreed-upon) things that happen onstage.

Majors aside, because there’s not much to say there that hasn’t already been said more eloquently by others and I seriously doubt he’s going to be a part of all this for much longer regardless...

You think “being close personal friends with the leader of a dangerous cult” is a flimsy reason to dislike a person.

So have the others. For the third time now, Battlefield fucking Earth.

What does any of this have to do with the points I made that there are other celebrities out there that starred in straight up Scientology propaganda which Cruise has not and never done?