His dad was an actor.

I have the advantage of knowing with hindsight that there would be huge losses on the part of small banks when commercial real estate crashed.

It didn’t work, because I still didn’t find the story that interesting.

25th Hour is the reason I object to people saying David Benioff is just a terrible writer, although I only saw the movie and didn’t read the book.

It sounds like we can tell Colby Cosh his fears regarding the sequel were misplaced.

Are the ones coming from central America considered “political” refugees?

I also found it strange that the film tried to make the protagonist something of a standard-bearer for modern ideas against the conventional wisdom of the past even though the real guy wasn’t.

I think it’s rather early to talk about guarantees.

Doing some googling, there have been a lot more times a single role has resulted in multiple nominations, but that might indeed be the only case of two separate actors winning:

Since he’s engaged in at least one movie-related hoax before, he could fake his own death, and then claim no-backsies on his posthumous Oscar.

A film noir can have the odd loose end and the characters can indeed be heightened, but the audience actually is supposed to follow along with the plot as the protagonist investigates the mystery and the actions of the characters are supposed to make sense for them, even if there’s a required reveal that a character…

Phoenix’s performance was said to be the standout element of Joker. So he could get a nomination for that, but for Best Picture it would help to be less of a one-man show. There’s already precedent for the actor playing the Joker to win an Oscar while the film itself goes without a BP nomination.

If you head over to https://thepopculturists.blogspot.com/ you’ll find my reviews in the Pop Culture Weekend threads. They’re not very good, and probably not more representative than the typical film reviewer. And in my comment I expressed uncertainty as to how worthwhile it would be to have more common tastes in…

I didn’t take the message of TLJ to be that the resistance/rebels should all give up. Their own incompetence makes their efforts frequently futile, but then you have to weigh that against the incompetence of the First Order/empire. You’re presumably referring to Rose’s sabotage of Finn, but since her speech goes…

It’s weird that this kicked off a wave of nostalgia for the decades which still hasn’t ended more than two decades later. Can you imagine a movie released this year doing something similar for our previous decade? Lady Bird would be the closest thing I can think of, and that’s way more specific than broad.

“Off-brand Seinfeld” was my complaint about the first live-action Tick show. And I liked Seinfeld.

Yeah, in the link I posted Roland Fryer and Steve Levitt describe it as essentially a pyramid scheme. And it did indeed collapse once it became clear how much grifting was going on.

The KKK had multiple incarnations, so it was first an insurrectionary band of masked terrorists, and then a bunch of people LARPing as the former. The second was the most popular, although it also doesn’t seem to have had any detectable impact on politics or even lynching. One take on the difference is that the former…

I’d never heard of the band “Skepticism”.

Max Boot can sympathize with Twitter there.