He's legitimately one of today's best musicians; everything he writes is so unexpected & strange! 

This reminds me of something Alexandra Petri posted on twitter: “chancel culture is getting out of hand! everywhere you look people reserving part of a church for the clergy and choir and separating it from the nave by steps or a screen.” 

I enjoy Newish Who but the show was at its best in the seventies when it was cheap, campy & strange. 

Having read some of his (presumably ghostwritten) memoir, I can confirm that as a youth he was really obnoxious.

Right, and the movie is extremely Dickensian in a way that is very emotionally satisfying. Dickens knew the galvanizing power of a good villain - the nastier and more melodramatic the better. I would say Capra is similar to James Cameron in this respect. Both are working in the sentimental tradition of storytelling…

There was an essay in Slate the other week about the annual Moby-Dick weekend in New Bedford, where hundreds of Melville enthusiasts gather aboard an old wooden ship to read Moby-Dick aloud over the course of twenty-five hours. My fiancee and I are talking about going.

People need to read more Proust! He’s wickedly perceptive and funny.

If it’s any consolation, there’s a popular twitter account (@bartlebytaco) who has been reading through In Search of Lost Time and occasionally posts some of the weirder moments from the books, and the posts tend to get hundreds of likes. When folk…

In the olden days this announcement would’ve been accompanied by a video of Peter Dinklage hula-hooping.

I had to google whether Freddy Got Fingered was part of the Criterion Channel.

The episode with the skating rink is the one I keep coming back to. Both the A plot and the B plot - with Ben getting depressed and making a claymation - are perfect. “Together we can defeat obese children” might be the best line in the series. This is Parks’ version of The Office’s “Dinner Party” or 30 Rock’s “Leap…

I love Nell, she was so good in the haunted boarding school episode of Endeavour. At the time I thought she’d have made an excellent Luna Lovegood.

This is the first time I’m learning that the previous entry *wasn’t* the fourth installment.

Let’s not forget, Bad Boys for Life was the highest-grossing film of 2020!

I must in all charity assume this is parody.

Is this going to be like the Avatar series where people spend ten years claiming they’ve had zero cultural impact when they’re the first and third highest-grossing films of all time, respectively?

We don’t talk enough about the score for Prisoner of Azkaban - all the Baroque flourishes, the recorder and harpsichord - it's really astonishing. 

I mean it had to be Schindler's List, right? I think it must be the best score he's ever composed. 

She was good in Fahrenheit 451! She did what she could with a terrible script.

“The “time jump” sequence is one of those concepts that could only really ever flourish in television—where the passage of time is so frequently stuck in place, sometimes for years on end, that deciding to suddenly move a show’s timeline forward in the span of a single scene, cut, or montage can feel like a…

Heaven Sent has to be the best episode the show ever did, classic or modern.