if Field actually intended for the level of feedback we got in my cinema, then that’s pathetic (and an insult to Mahler). I highly doubt it.

whatever happened to the plans to digitize Majel’s voice and then AI-render it in future Treks? 

and picking up and smashing a cello in the finale!

I remember when this bullshit infected the Marvel’s Avengers game, and it had all these random microcurrencies - Uru! ISO-8! - lifted directly from Marvel gacha titles like Future Fight and Contest of Champions.

“Oh, we’re glad you’re enjoying Stranger Things so far. Would you like to pay an additional $40 on top of your Netflix subscription in order to watch the final season?”

It’s also the cinemas’ fault. I saw Tár in a theatre and there’s no way Todd Field intended for Mahler to come in so deafeningly loud that you could hear the speakers vibrating with feedback.

Between this and the “Nolan Effect” on audio, it’s striking how much the A/V quality of movies has declined in the past couple decades.

I distinctly remember finishing Winter’s Bone, turning to my mom, and saying, “wow that young actress is astonishing, too bad she’s so un-Hollywood and nobody will ever get the chance to see her talent.”

it’s sad that the old A.V. Club might have been on here going to bat for, I dunno, indie darling writer-director Sarah Polley.

you mean, this Q-Force, the one that lampshades how dreadfully pandering it is towards the queer community while also actually being dreadfully pandering?

oh no what will all three snowpiercer fans do now

I can’t believe this isn’t item #1 in this article. What a godawful waste of IP - not to mention special effects budget and a (decent) cast stuck with terrible scripts.

other contenders for “most thematically appropriate”:

I so profoundly disagree with this I don’t even know where to begin.

my relationships helped me get in the door and get me to where I am then the answer is 100% yes and I don’t feel like I’m losing anything by admitting that

this is the correct time to snap

Fogerty bought a majority interest in the global publishing right to his work, purchasing the catalog from the Concord record label.

I’ll bet Bronson Pinchot has some great Bill Murray stories.

was arrested on December 29 following an exchange with prominent climate activist Greta Thunberg on Twitter.