Men are exhausting.

If it’s going to reemerge as a cult classic, we need some time away from it for it to be rediscovered. We’re still too close to make that judgement. But i do think in like 5/10 years when the inevitable “oral histories of how this bomb came to be” stories begin being written, there will certainly be many devout “holy…

Disney’s relationship (or lack thereof) with Williams I always find super fascinating so I’m using this opportunity to share Lindsay Ellis’s excellent video on the subject:

Honestly, I feel like the answer is less in the specifics and more in the amount of work woc have to do to land in the directors chair in the first place: the barrier of entry for women, and specifically women of color, is so much higher than it is for white men, so when the few of them actually break through, it’s on…

Honestly the only movies I can remember seeing recently that really benefitted from being seen on a big screen were Mad Max: Fury Road and Gravity, because both were such huge adrenaline kicks to the senses. Anything else I’ll take on Netflix if I can.

I’m gonna get stoned as fuck and go see this and honestly I cant wait.

I feel the exact same way and, similarly, would like to hurl myself into a volcano if I have to read the words “Academy Award Nominee Adam Sandler”.

Thank you for the list! I completely missed that Ted Chiang had a new book this year but i’m ordering immediately. I think my favorite book of the year was Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror, and from a G/O Meida alum no less!

I think an important thing to remember also is how little money these artists are actually making from streaming, even at the R Kelly/Michael Jackson levels. It’s literally fractions of pennies per stream.

I’m gonna need Florence Pugh and Jodie Comer to costar in a movie where they play con women and both get to work out all of their accents since they’re both the best in the game.

Exactly this. I saw this trailer over the weekend while going to see Knives Out and leaned over to my friend to say “ah yes, white men so often are being stereotyped. So glad Eastwood is telling this story.” *eyeroll*

Hannah Horvath was immensely unlikeable, but I agree with you about the others. In fact, when I was giving my friends the sell on Fleabag I always described it as “Girls if you actually liked Lena Dunham.”

I mean I’m no MCU superfan, but I literally just reread this to make sure I didnt miss Black Panther’s omission which seems egregious.

Fury Road and Gravity are the only two movies I can think of that I left the theater feeling like I’d just taken a shot of espresso. Those movies had an infectious electricity.

I know at this point I shouldn’t be, but I’ll forever be shocked at the right’s ability to take liberal talking points and flip & pervert them to further their bigotry. In this case, they saw how well Conversion Therapy was uniformly demonized as child abuse and are now trying to use the same argument against trans…

I love HBC and Olivia, obviously. But I think my biggest problem with this season so far (i’m halfway through) is that there doesnt seem to be much of a narrative through-line like the first two seasons did. The show has always been episodic and had large time jumps, but there was always one plot point that tied it…

Gotcha. These are the times when the jumping of the timeline doesnt help the series. Because, as a viewer, I’m like “oh this is episode three, this is still a new PM, why can’t he just nail this to the former government before he took control?” but I’m sure much more time had elapsed than the show lets on.

This episode doesn’t make it clear, but despite an official inquiry that placed the blame for the Aberfan disaster on the National Coal Board, the organization was never prosecuted or fined.

I was gonna come down here and complain that Gravity Falls didnt make the list but, look at that! Y’all did me right!

Funny how someone who can’t mention the New York Times without screaming that its “failing” or “lying” cares so damn much about being on their Best Sellers list.