I really don't understand how they lead with that. This is the problem with art as sport, it inspires people to make dumb, useless observations like that.
I'm not going to make a list, but I feel like Licorice Pizza is going to be left out a lot by those who do. It's not even a bad film, it gas great moments and performances, it just doesn't have the muscle that his other films have.
Javier Bardem: "No to war, and Free Palestine."
Javier Bardem said fuck your teleprompter
I think that's a sign you have a great twist: It would still be a strong, interesting story if told without it, but the twist adds layers to your understanding of the story.
Fight Club is a film I can think of at the moment where the twist being successful is important, but not so important that it tells you how the rest of the movie will play out. The story being told is not dependent on the mechanics of the twist and would be interesting if told straight.
It's very difficult to sit through a movie that hinges on a twist only to watch that movie fumble the set-up to the point where it is very obvious what is happening and so everything else loses weight because you know it's not going to matter.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
Someone snidely mocking PTA for being a cokehead when he was with Fiona Apple, which was damn near 30 years ago for this now nearly 60 year-old family man, is peak Bluesky.
Seems like a bad reason
He wants you to fix the weather since I’m obviously incapable of such a simple task. 🙄
I was about to say...unless you're a big important star. Fucked up, but I guess that's the way it goes.
Man makes very specific claim without evidence because he knows he can say "Qatar" to his intended audience and they won't even blink. It's also bog standard of Zionism to lay antisemitism at the hands of a Muslim conspiracy.
Yes, I think a few weeks into January and you're probably not going to make the In Memoriam.
You could fantasize about Grier, she seemed very comfortable with that, but she played some of these characters with a forcefulness that demanded you respect her. Watching Grier blast new holes into guys is really hot.
This is from Coffy, not Foxy Brown, but Grier's line, "You want me to crawl, white motherfucker?", as she pulls a gun on a crime boss who is getting off on a racial humiliation kink, lives in my head rent free.
I have watched Coffy many more times than Foxy Brown, so I'm watching Foxy Brown now and it occurs to me that I don't remember how this movie goes all that well and have in fact attributed certain scenes in it to Coffy.
Ryan Coogler accepts his first-ever Oscar to a standing ovation
“To my parents who are here, thank you for making me believe in myself… Memories are all we have. I hope we give you some great ones.”
Of the ways in which that situation was going to end, it probably ended one of the better ways that it could have, but what is being done here is creating more guys like Ayman Ghazali.
I don't think I've ever before heard about the death of a mass killer or attempted mass killer and felt any real pity for them, but as happy as I am that no one but the attempted killer was harmed, I cannot imagine having to process what Ayman Ghazali was processing before he made this awful choice.
Okay, fuck it, I probably won't have much to say tonight, but it's very cool that Amy Madigan won for Weapons. And she's got her man with her and they've been together since I was an egg and it's just nice.
I'm not at all that invested, I just happen to like and respect PTA and Coogler and I know that winning would probably make either happy. Do I ultimately care? Not really, I don't even care if there is some wild ass upset that no one sees coming. They've made weird choices forever.
As a teenager, do you even know enough people to place hundreds of sets of individual balls on your face? Or are we talking four or five guys dropping sack twenty times a piece?
I'm not even watching, but people are obviously preparing for Bluesky and elsewhere to explode in a fireball of silly righteous indignation in a few hours. Some of us may wish to make ourselves scarce to avoid the pending rumble. Whatever happens, it's just not worth it to get pissy, folks.
Prior to the news of his treatment breaking I saw something on YouTube from him that I initially didn't think anything about, but now I sort of see it as him knowing that his involvement was about to go public and him trying to get ahead of what the response would be.
I will say it plainly: If Coogler takes it home, great, I love that guy; but there is no reason at all that people should be upset if PTA takes it home. Dude has been out there doing this for 30 years and anyone who compares One Battle After Another to Green Book or Crash, is an idiot. Full stop.
"Have you ever sucked a penis? Do you know what semen tastes like? Have you ever tasted semen? Some semen is saltier than others. Vaughan's semen must be very salty..."
Happy Birthday, David Cronenberg.
I've always felt like an outsider
