Another dynamic in play that kinda only really makes sense if you’ve been in a band: How musicians handle mistakes, issues, writing challenges has a TON to do with how practices go.

Some musicians are “stop a song that isn’t going well, talk about why something didn’t work, figure out where the issue was, and start…

The most emotionally striking part was about 15 minutes into Ep2, Paul coming to the realization that things were not going well and he had no clear plan of what to do about it. He stares out quietly for like three full minutes, and tears start to well up. Then he comes to, shakes his head, and walks away from the…

I enjoyed Ep 1 and will (probably) watch the rest when I have time, but one thing the review doesn’t specifically highlight is that the doc is just the edited footage and nothing else. There are no talking heads, minimal archival footage, etc. If you’re not a diehard fan, it helps a lot to pause occasionally and at…

i am a very casual beatles fan, but i love a good studio documentary. i can’t wait to sit down with this.

Yep. When they’re talking about the staging of the concert and suddenly we hear the opening chords of “Let It Be”, I got chills--for all we know, we’re seeing and listening to the first time anyone but Paul has heard that song. 

I’m not a Beatles fan, but I found it captivating, and nothing felt like filler.

I wonder if the high turnover rate they have because they are apparently a garbage place to work has an impact? I say this because if it truly is a grift like it sounds like, with each passing year. If you never have a stable staff outside of the core, who could pocket most of the money, you end up with a situation…

I think you might be jumping the gun on the argument that Steve Carell has abandoned comedy. He’s the lead in Space Force, a show that, critical response notwithstanding, is a pretty broad The Office-style comedy.

A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, “let us flee!”
“Let us fly!” said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

I always prime my flu by going outside with no jacket and wet hair.

When this movie was announced, my daughter was 4, and she understood the conceit immediately. Thanks for confirming that she’s more intelligent than nearly everyone described in this article.

donuts or animal hands?

My husband did this when we first started dating and it drove me nuts...then I met his mom and realized she does it too. Perhaps a regional thing?

I actually prefer “New Nightmare”, Wes Craven’s practice run at doing meta before “Scream”. While I appreciate that ridiculous excess is half the point of horror movies, this one gains a hell of a lot from being toned down from its predecessors.

I’ll take the first NOES over the ANY F13, it’s a superior movie in every way, an out of nowhere twist doesn’t save F13, and the filmmakers even were happy to ditch Pam for Jason in the 2nd movie onward

Saw this as a kid too, but for some reason thought it was simply called Ants (for obvious reasons).

There are actually 2 endings to Phase IV!

All I know is he better say there’s no crying in baseball.

Oh, agreed. There’s something about these kinds of charismatic people that make folks gloss over it I guess. I found out years later my sister-in-law, who was not one of the inner-circle of this teacher, often went home in tears after getting unsolicited/excessive blunt feedback from this guy on her work. We just…

I always felt the opposite about the Whedon home-hangout stories, even back when I was a Whedon show stan. It made me think he was encouraging a weird cliqueishness on set, and I thought the people who *weren’t* part of said hangouts was kind of glaring. It reminded me of a charismatic HS history teacher I had who was…