When your standard for “good” is the fucking Godfather, then yeah, no shit other movies aren’t gonna live up to that.

The New Yorker this week has a great look at former Academy voters who were ousted due to lack of involvement in the industry, and the supposed ageism behind it. One of the quotes is (I’m paraphrasing) “if there isn’t a role for a Chinaman, there isn’t a role for a Chinaman,” I shit you not

from the interview: “The Lobster was interesting but a little bit weird for me”

Please do not assume that I haven’t seen Dial M for Murder. I even saw a restored 3D print once (what a treat). The problem with using it in this post instead of A Perfect Murder is that Ray Milland never says, “THAT’S NOT HAPPINESS TO SEE ME, IS IT.”

“Cate. You look award-worthy, but your lip sync was mostly Babel...”

Should be pretty obvious.

Counter-point:

If you watched the meeseeks episode and didn’t laugh, you can go fuck yourself

Arrested Development is a near perfect analogy for at least part of President* Trump’s family.

But there’s no accounting for taste, the general audience in America considers Marvel movies to be the pinnacle of cinema at the moment.

Why bother with a theater when they make you wear pants and don’t let you smoke a bowl and pause it to go pee?

I don’t know, if they ever decide to expand the category beyond prestige dramas, I might see more of them. (I’m really missing the equivalent of The Big Short this year — something timely, funny, surprising.)

What’s with the snark? Emily Weiss has built her company from the ground up, it’s hugely succesful, and the products are actually good (their concealer is seriously the best I’ve ever tried, and I’ve tried them all, including the super expensive Clé de Peau, I also love the serums). She asks from input from her…

Going to have to disagree with the snark here. I’m very, very happy to see a female-led beauty startup achieve the crazy levels of funding and success that they have. So many of the power-players in this industry are men giving their best approximation of “what women want” (which for so long appeared to be heavily…

“Heart-Shaped Pizza” was the best Pearl Jam song. RIP Curt.

Update: Cecilia weighs in:

I can’t get my mind around the lightswitch thing. They can’t figure out off/on? Or at least ask someone? Sad!