I know, I don’t know why they bother with SNL reviews, since every one is a variation on, “Not even [Insert Celebrity] Can Save a Middling SNL”

yep. amazing how they always manage to cover SNL though

Is Shana bi? I thought that during the first watch, but I recently re-watched the pilot and a lot of Shana’s looks to Jackie seem to be more about the Jeff stuff then being into Jackie. 

I think we’re to believe it was supernatural or it was mechanical. I don’t think there will be a clear cut answer, but you can see why the girls might start believing there are spirits trying to keep them from leaving, just the same as us audience asking those questions.

So now with the coach’s reveal, does this high school soccer team have a disproportionate number of gay members on it? All for it but maybe not the most realistic, but who cares.

That was also my initial reaction to the teddy bear combusting, that it seemed magical and intentional. But of course there could be more practical explanations

Is it just me or did it look like the teddy bear catching fire may have had a supernatural element to it? Sure, there may have been something wrong mechanically with the plane or in the cockpit that caused the bear (whose name I can’t remember, but if it isn’t something biblical I’ll eat a soccer player) to go up, but…

Fett surviving AT ALL and getting his own goddam show is the most basic-ass nostalgia-bait ever. The guy was a suit of armor and a jetpack. He was a cool looking toy that had the good luck of getting stuck in the brain of a bunch of people who are now in control of pop culture.

I can see how that would be an interesting idea in book form, but it would just be silly on film.

I don’t recall this site supporting left-wing bullshitters like Gwyneth Paltrow.

At its best, SW movies actually have great and memorable dialogue. While ANH contains some clunkers, it also has wit to spare and dozens of lines that have become pop cultural staples. ESB has crackling dialogue basically throughout. The whole, “SW movies are badly written” nonsense has been wildly overstated from the…

He had a great part on Lodge 49 and was great in it.

The Mandalorian is objectively the highest production quality and writing quality Star Wars property that has been put to film so far since 1977.

The first season was very, very good. S2 was a series of backdoor pilots for the Disney Content Factory that forgot to tell a compelling story beyond remember this???

Forget Bond - I want Carey Mulligan as the younger version of Judi Dench’s M in a prequel series as the MI6 agent growing ever more cynical while discovering how shitty British imperialism really is as decolonization takes hold across the Commonwealth in the 1970s. Maybe she occasionally crosses paths with the…

I re-watched Crimson Peak a few week ago, and the gulf between that movie’s visual design and narrative is even more dramatic than I remembered. Visually it’s a great mashup of a giallo and a fairy-tale, but the villains’ motives and modus operandi are basically self-evident, and the story wraps up with a very long…

I also watched the original last month:

For me, Del Toro has been pure aesthetics and bland scripts for several years, the initial hype leaves a bitter taste after watching.

You mean sounding like she’s from New York because she’s from New York?

As a biomedical scientist whose work deals with genetics, I’m more than a bit annoyed at the constant disingenuous conflating of anything to do with human genetics with eugenics, though. Eugenics had nothing to do with actual genetics research and was actually invented *before* the (re)discovery of Mendel’s Laws.…