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“Life can only be understood by looking backward,” the famed 19th Century existentialist Søren Kierkegaard opined, “but it must be lived looking forward.” Then again, the venerable and dynamic film genre we know as the “time loop movie” had yet to be invented

The gore, however, is ample

Old & Busted: Marvel/Disney payola

His Metacritic page:

That is still the angriest I have ever been in a movie theater. By finally using the original title I knew they MUST faithfully adapt the ending, otherwise that title wouldn’t make any sense. Even the alternate ending doesn’t cut it.

Why “referred”?

“Anymore”? She wasn’t willing before either.

I recall now someone complaining that a guy the age of Cliff during Once Upon a Time in Hollywood would have been listening to older music like Sinatra rather than the hipper music of the 60s.

It’s gotten increasingly more of a hassle to copy image links, but hopefully this can embed:

The Hustons are somewhat unusual in that an older member won his Oscar via a film his son directed, a sort of reverse nepo baby.

Fincher uses digital for his period pieces, and people don’t complain because he does it very well.

I’m not actually seeing the picture described here, just one up top of her with the Grammy symbol.

Something that Mad Men, Masters of Sex, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel & Stranger Things have in common is that they all begin prior to the actual births of their creators. Thus the period is not recreated from their own memories but instead from media, more the idea of the time as viewed from the present than the reality. I…

I suppose we could look at the ratings of B99 reruns to see if audiences were still willing to laugh.

I suppose he wouldn’t have to relocate if Dreamworks were animating it.

“Anglea”: lesser known sister of Angela Basset.

Of those, I’ve only seen Happy Valley (specifically, the first two seasons), which has a fairly heroic protagonist up against a clearly awful villain, although it’s in the prestige drama mold.

If “how you act” includes choosing sex partners, that’s perfectly sensible.