I also agree with commenters that even if I bought into Jon’s attempts at discourse here, doing it by giving airtime to a serial sexual harasser is not the way.

I like Jon, but this is par for the course with him. I think he’s a phenomenal critic of the media, but is much worse as a political pundit, especially when he tries to engage in good faith with his bad faith sparring partners from the right. It’s very cringe-worthy, and only gets moreso as the climate continues to…

It’s being compared to Lambs because it invokes it at many turns, along with Se7en and Sinister, among others. I was surprised how heavily indebted to other movies this one was, and how much it wears its influences on its sleeve.

She was a teenage Holocaust orphan and, no, in this particular context, it is not terribly worth mentioning.  

I also hear she planned the entire operation and killed every one of those people herself.  

I never knew she was Jewish nor that her family died in the Holocaust and that she had such a tragic and tumultuous early life. Fascinating and long life and career.

Well the true villain of the piece isn’t a dirty poor, but something infinitely worse... A GRASPING MIDDLE CLASSER! *scare chord* (There goes the neighborhood.)

I don’t think it’s just about shock as there seems to be a genuine attempt at commentary but there’s a bit of “not fully thinking things through”-ness there, especially Saltburn (and that movie definitely came from a rich person’s standpoint and didn’t really attempt to put on a working class façade).

If you’ve seen Silence of the lambs, Psycho, Jaws, Blair Witch, Seven, Zodiac, Carrie, Halloween, The Omen, The Sixth Sense, No country for old Men, Rosemary’s Baby, Megan or Nosforatu, you may (or may not) enjoy Longlegs for what it’s worth: a horror pastiche made for an atmosphere full of dread and not much else. 

There’s an insane amount of misogyny in discussions of her performance in The Shining. (Which is appropriate considering how misogynistic King’s early works are, whether or not he can admit it.) People saying things like “I was rooting for Jack” and “I wanted to kill her as well.” Like, do you say that to all battered…

She was the center of The Shining, a fantastic movie.

I recently rewatched The Shining and it’s so strange the discourse around her in it because her performance not only isn’t bad, it’s uniquely good. It’s honestly one of the most brutally realistic depictions of a woman in an abusive relationship. It’s interesting too because throughout the movie she’s legitimately…

Look, the industry’s led by idiot middle managers who don’t know anything about movies and barely face any consequence for being wrong. They chased short-term profits, some got it and execs cashed out, and they gave up long-term sustainability. That’s it. They pretended the pandemic era would last forever, so they…

“he ‘was able to get representation pretty early on, and that’s more than half the battle.’”

I think what makes people not care about the Nepo Baby thing in Hollywood is not only if they’re chill about it, but if they’re also genuinely talented. And while I have no academic research to back this upcoming claim (...yet), it feels like the Hollywood Nepo Babies that are actually talented usually ARE the ones…

But our kids are gonna love it.

Most of those filmmakers weren’t trying to get rich, they were just trying to get funding, and that was always doable. They’d make some money on upfront fees, sure, but they’d still supplement with other work, and hopefully make real money with residuals. The movies would make 6 or low 7 figures in specialty theaters,…

If you didn’t watch, you may have missed that the candidates literally started arguing about who’s better at sports (golf) at one point, lol. It’s come full circle!

Also yes

Counterpoint: she’s just not a good actress and is uncharismatic, monotone, and dead-eyed in pretty much all of her roles. She’s at her best in talk show appearances when she’s just being a version of herself.