Wait, I thought Heath Ledger killed Heath Ledger.

I found Resolution unfortunately lacking in resolution, and Spring wasn’t my cup of tea, but the third time was the charm for The Endless. I’m cautiously optimistic for this.

There was a flurry a little while ago over the claim that some nooses were hung from a tree, when it turned out they were exercise ropes (hung by a black guy). The mayor declared that the intent behind them was irrelevant, but it’s not like those ropes were themselves hurting anyone. It was just the mistaken belief…

Ken Jeong’s standup routine was notoriously derogatory toward elves, and a lot of Rock’s best friends are elves.

And he kept breaking on SNL! Chris Parnell never broke! Give Jimmy Fallon’s career to Chris Parnell!

I think he just doesn’t want to get into it regarding those, whereas an impersonation of himself by someone he knows is something he can more easily address.

I don’t think I get the joke, since Picard was in First Contact.

He directly copies panels from comics, so even if he were illiterate it would be sufficient to establish that he looked at the pictures.

Like Starship Troopers?

I don’t think there was a chance of Jodorowsky’s version getting made. He seemed to give basically no thought to the practicalities of production.

Prior to this Campos had made “Buy It Now”, of which one half purports to be a video a teen girl is shooting of herself and the other half is the same story shot in a more traditional manner.

I briefly thought to myself “Hadn’t they already played a married couple in a previous film about a family?”, but The Keeping Hours had Lee Pace instead.

Well, there’s no way this could be worse than the actual “I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House”. I’m glad Durkin finally made another movie, and I had to think for a while whether this is Coon’s biggest big-screen role since Gone Girl. I’m still miffed that when “Widows” was set in Chicago they gave the…

My recollection was that Omar was openly gay rather than closeted.

Lynchings had declined a lot before then. I think northern voters regarded the south as backward because there were actual laws discriminating against blacks. And the 1968 election wasn’t a referenda on redlining or blockbusting. Nixon did though take a stance against bussing, as Biden would go on to do (after…

“After civil rights” most obviously sounds like a reference to the 1964 act, and as noted the candidate who ran against it got trounced. I don’t think you can explain Nixon’s victory via that.

My understanding is that British actors prefer doing southern accents to other American ones because those diverged less from the common dialectical ancestor.

I’ve never seen that precisely because the twist was the first thing I heard about the movie and I figured it wouldn’t have any impact. I still watched “Sisters” despite being more vaguely aware of the twist in that.

That conversation is probably its peak moment of comedy-of-discomfort, which I don’t care for either. But after the first act it turns into an entirely different movie.

I find a lot of it eyerolling, but I was under the impression that Lucas had explicitly cited Triumph of the Will as inspiration for the medal scene.