She’s incredible. And inspiring. I had the privilege of interviewing her once, and before that, of watching her at work. You feel like you’re in the presence of some wise, funny, completely humble kung-fu master.

Criticism is subjective, bud. And to pretend otherwise is bullshit. 

‘I’ve left Sundance but it hasn’t left me.’

‘NO one escapes the Vengabus.’

I must admit, I was more preoccupied by the fact that everyone in the clip looks like they’re out of a Private porn video. So I just kept expecting them all to start fucking.

‘comedies just don’t lend themselves to audience/character identification the way that dramedies/ dramas do’

My wife and I always laugh about this: the ‘moody’ minor-key cover version for trailers. We want to see someone do a haunted, piano-driven “We Like to Party!” by the Vengaboys:

That is a good movie.

No one makes a tremendous amount of money reviewing a book, Bottle. Certainly not in 2020.

As I understand it, the disapproval that it exists per se, somewhat predated the actual reviews.

But I think it mostly is about who gets to tell what stories; the quality of the book is not the primary issue, here.

‘Richardson will be playing endlessly loyal A.I.M. grunt Gary.’

Has any publication been as dependably, absolutely out-of-touch as Rolling Stone? Given their track record, I’m surprised they don’t have Bill Kristol reviewing for them.

. . . I feel like we’re on the same side, here.

He’s frequently an asshole, but that was funny and mostly on the mark. Alas, the new, extra-Woke AV Club has picked a side, and Gervais – no matter what he might say – ain’t on it. To the extent that they’ll altering the facts in their reporting (citing Netflix where he – conspicuously if somewhat self-servingly – did…

I find Michael Barbaro’s mannered delivery borderline-insufferable – like a woke William Shatner, if one can imagine such a thing – but The Daily’s recent three-part ‘Jungle King of Delhi’ story was as good as anything I’ve seen or heard this year.

That was John Hurt. He told me the very same story, with a suitably malicious gleam in his eye.

‘Are you gay?’ 

Yep. Complexity is so weirdly hard for people to fathom in characters onscreen – I suspect because, consciously or not, people look for analogues for themselves in every story, such being the solipsism of our time.

I’m with you on that one. (See also: Eric Andre.)