William Bibbiani

One grandpa was a beloved small town barber.

All I know about the other grandpa is that he was, by all accounts, an asshole.

Jesse singal literally wrote a whole article about an imaginary me and then asked people to be furious at his fantasy version of me.

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The reviews for THE BRIDE! are all over the place, with half the critics loving it to pieces and the other half hating its guts. Always interesting when that happens.

(I’m not usually on the “loved it” side when directors go this wild. Now I know how the BABYLON and SOUTHLAND TALES defenders felt.)

I hope it’s clear that I’m being playful with my praise. I’m saying it’s tailor-made to hit the joy centers of certain filmgoers, the kind who strongly glom onto films of this ilk, and that it does the job extremely well.

The Bride > Wuthering Heights

‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley Is a Scream in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Gothic Gangster Romance Maggie Gyllenhaal’s glorious, (re)invigorating ‘Zombie and Clyde’ co-stars Christian Bale as one of the best Frankenstein Monsters.

Maggie Gyllenhaal just made your new favorite film.

Jessie Buckley is reinvigorating in THE BRIDE! Christian Bale is an all-timer Frankenstein, and Gyllenhaal paints a wild pastiche of gothic romance, gangster classics, indie scuzz and, what the heck, also ALL OF ME.

My review is at @thewrap.com!

Gonna need a scene in here where Aaron Pierre calmly explains his Green Lantern powers while someone is feverishly Googling him only to realize they have Fucked Around and are about to Find Out.

The whole concept of "supply and demand" falls apart when the only demands that matter come from a few billionaires.

The needs of the consumers become irrelevant. The will of the people becomes irrelevant.

Monopolies aren't just bad for business. They're antithetical to democracy.

This is also why tech moved to subscription models.

They can't *dramatically* improve on PhotoShop. So if you have no reason to buy a new edition, they'll make you re-buy the old one, every single month.

Televisions hit a wall, too. How do you *dramatically* improve on a 95-inch, 8K television?

I like Joan Jett but I hate Ghost Rider villains.

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

Can we pretend THE MUMMY RETURNS didn't happen either?

“Resistance is futile,” a thing famously said by history’s good guys

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults - Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Everyone needs to stop calling propagandists “influencers”

Neve Campbell on the phone in Scream 5, even though you might think this scene was in Scream 6.

Has anyone else noticed a Mandela Effect where people remember a scene in SCREAM VI where someone calls Sidney and Sidney says she won’t get involved this time, even though that scene was actually in SCREAM (2022)?

(I remembered it this way too for a while, so I’m wondering if it was just me.)

True, but SCREAM VI, all Gale said was that Sidney was taking her family to safety. I see no reason why SCREAM 7 couldn’t have worked around an excuse that vague.

This tracks.

A couple streamers have played with this but I think every streamer would benefit from having playlists curated by a combination of critics and filmmakers, specific to their current offerings, with specially recorded intros to each film. Switch ‘em out every month. Give it the “video store” vibe.

*laughs in "years of Benghazi hearings"*

How I arrived on Bluesky

Trans rights are human rights. This isn't a tough one.

I pitched that as a Halloween special but they said no. (I could never convince them that horror fans were a big enough audience.)

SCREAM 8 should be about ranked listicles, as the new killer(s) count down all the Ghostface murders, from worst to best.

Or it could be about online horror critics and influencers. There’s a lot of possibilities there.

I get annoyed when I think about the infinite (and infinitely more creative) possibilities they could have mined out of fan theories, fan fiction and head canon. They brought it up and didn’t even TRY to have fun with it.

This, and also the whole “why wasn’t Sidney in New York during the events of Scream VI” thing they keep harping on about, over and over, in dialogue, could’ve been solved by setting Scream 7 during (or even merely around) the same time frame.

This thread is an incredible catalog and history of moral panics in the early 20th century.

The dumbasses of the day were terrified about *checks notes* kids reading books at bed time.

And it just gets more wacky from there.