why not just buy the rights to “Pirates of the Caribbean 6: The Haunted Crow’s Nest or Whatever, Who Gives a Crap” from Michael Schur?  

hmmm, sounds like someone knows they are about to lose their career

“Sexual Harassment” in particular is hard to watch (as I assume you agree, from your username).

We really need a sequel to The Social Network. The stakes of the original feel so small in comparison with the events of the past couple years.

give him a year or two!

Todd VanDerWerff had a piece up at Vox this morning about how our collective impressions of political figures are now largely determined by SNL.

I haven’t watched much of the Smith / Capaldi eras but the family showed me “Let’s Kill Hitler!” a few years ago and I was turned off by how frantic and frenetic it was. I prefer the relative restraint of the classic Doctors and Eccleston and Tennant.

That’s my only real problem with the movie, which I loved: the first hour seemed to drag on and on. But the second half redeemed it by making the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, which is the measure of a good star war. It did something that modern blockbusters so rarely do: it *surprised* me.

there’s no way they can improve on the original trilogy - the end of the third movie perfectly wrapped up the series - so I’m just going to pretend the series ended with the third movie.

I liked the coming-of-age aspect but was disappointed that the movie glossed over the bigotry and racism and witch-hunting that animates Derry and powers the monster. Supposedly those themes will be more prominent in the sequel.

I was grieving the untimely death of a friend when I saw this movie (it’s probably my favorite film) and the final scene pulled me out of dark waters. It’s filled with hope in a way that’s almost unseen in contemporary filmmaking.

I love the directing of this movie but I wish the directors of the various films had taken a page from BBC mysteries and shown flashbacks during the resolution revealing the solution to the mystery. It would have made the movies feel so much more like a traditional whodunnit, which is what they were at heart.

I was just talking with my family about how lucky we are that he directed the third film. He almost singlehandedly saved the film series.

book twitter is lovely but political twitter is a cancer.

that speech Tim Roth gives at the end of the movie about how overwhelming the city is and how do you choose the life you want out of all the million possibilities - he puts into words a feeling that I’ve never seen expressed anywhere else, and certainly never with more eloquence.

even more than Spiderman 2: Too Many Spidermen: The Musical?

I knew a guy in high school who would fast-forward through all the quiet or beautiful or character-centric moments in the Lord of the Rings films so he could get to the battles and I have never forgiven him for it.

I loved Children of Men and Prisoner of Azkaban, so I couldn’t help but find Gravity a little disappointing.

I’m reminded of how Kanye initially tried to get a woman to sing “Gold Digger” about herself.

I just learned that there was a Ronettes-style pop song from the ‘60s with the title “He Hit Me and It Felt Like a Kiss.” It only got a few weeks’ worth of radio play before being pulled because people complained that it sounded like an endorsement of spousal abuse. Carole King later said she regretted having been…