I took it as implied he didn’t actually take it, but that this would be revealed late in the movie.

I was inspired by your comment to revisit Kermode’s review of “Dune”... only to find he didn’t reference any of the lead actors (just Stellan Skarsgard).

You listen to too many crab people. We leave the ocean to them because we just consider it a big toilet.

Stop responding to everyone who worries about Wall Street or globalism or the elite with “I THINK YOU MEAN JEWS. BECAUSE JEWS ARE THE ELITES. ALL ELITES AND GLOBALISTS ARE JEWS. IF YOU’RE WORRIED ABOUT THE ELITE, IT’S DEFINITELY JEWS YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT. IF YOU FEEL SCREWED BY WALL STREET, THEN THE PEOPLE…

Michael is serving as EP

Kidman is a natural redhead, but wears a blonde wig.

The @StealthMountain twitter account was started years ago rather than “all of a sudden”. I see it’s suspended now though.

I guess a Newswire isn’t really classifiable as “criticism”. It’s content churned out from press-releases.

It’s Sorkin rather than the cast that makes me wary of this.

This was written, and I think filmed, before the pandemic hit the UK.

You think sentimental broad-strokes movies don’t win Best Pictures?

I was unaware of that one, I had only watched Pera make an old-fashioned three-legged stool with Townsend.

Isn’t there an old video in which Willem Defoe calls himself “William”?

it’s the same reason that trailers for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village promised a creature feature like his previous film [...] If you’ve seen The Village, you know it’s more Gothic romance than monster horror. And if you read The Perishing, you’ll see it has more in common with Deón’s debut

It’s bizarre reading old news stories in which prominent San Francisco politicians stand by him against accusations of the People’s Temple being a dangerous cult. The 70s were a weird time. I think that was also the last time a member of Congress was murdered, whereas the UK has oddly had two MPs killed within a…

Actually, I’m unfamiliar with that gif.

It would be harder to explain Dexter continuing to get away with literal murder with him still around.

I actually prefer Hard Eight to Boogie Nights.

I like Boogie Nights far less than most cinephiles, but I really dug Inherent Vice. I’m not especially interested in Licorice Pizza.

Doakes was onto Dexter relatively early.