Caroline Siede

Spent so long trying to figure out why a random, unnecessary scene was left in an upcoming movie only to finally discover that said scene stars the director's son.

A screenshot of my Spotify wrapped that reads “Your listening age: 79. Since you were into music from the Early 60s. You’re an old soul.”

Damn, Spotify. Can’t a girl just like oldies??

‘The Little Mermaid’ changed everything The Princess Diaries #4: The Little Mermaid (1989)

I've seen The Little Mermaid approximately a thousand times in my life and yet still felt like I got something new out of deep diving into it for my "Princess Diaries" series.

In my recent column on Kill Bill, I mentioned that the villainous rapist character feels like he’s played for laughs and the commenters ripped me apart for the idea that ANYONE would ever laugh at such a harrowing moment in a Tarantino film…

The poster for The Smashing Machine

The poster for Marty Supreme

It’s like their parents said, “Okay boys, why don’t you get out of the house today and each go make a weirdo character study set against the backdrop of a niche sport enjoying a successful run in Japan.”

My new rom-com column kicks off with ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’ You've Got Rom-Com makes the case that the 2011 ensemble comedy is the *most* rom-com ever made

You can support a small female-owned business (me!) by subscribing to my brand new rom-com column, You've Got Rom-Com. So far I've written about Crazy Stupid Love and It Happened One Night and I've got Last Christmas on the docket for next month!

If The Little Mermaid says you should give up your voice for a man then Aladdin says you should pretend to be a prince to woo a girl, The Lion King says you should run away from your problems and sing “Hakuna Matata,” and Toy Story says you should push your rivals out a window.

Is it even Thanksgiving if you haven’t seen an opera singer on the Rao’s pasta float?

Shaggy singing “It Wasn’t Me” from a giant golden turkey float, while Savannah Guthrie praises Jennie-O for being a “global leader in turkey.” I love the Macy’s parade so much!

And you’re not wrong!

#StrangerThings S4 recaptured the magic of season one, Stranger Things S5 recaptures the frustration (and occasional highs) of season two.

Screencap from SPIDER-MAN (2002) featuring Willem Defoe as Norman Osborne with the Thanksgiving turkey

Reminder: the first Raimi SPIDER-MAN is a Thanksgiving movie.

Agreed!

Do you think they just pass the costumes along, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants style?

Amy Adams in The Fighter

Rachel McAdams in Southpaw

Emily Blunt in The Smashing Machine

One of the funniest Hollywood trends is every prestige actress needing to do at least one movie where she plays the trashy girlfriend of a boxer/mixed martial artist

Just a note to all foreign-language film distributors that if you could stop putting white subtitles on light backgrounds, that would be great!!

Zootopia 2 is a stagnant sequel with one stellar subplot Disney seems less invested in Zootopia 2, churning out a sequel that feels more like a Disney+ TV show than an animated epic.

There was one storyline in Zootopia 2 that genuinely made me cry and then a whole lot of forgettable sequel stuff too

IDK, I still feel like I would’ve gotten to “Can this be undone?” a little quicker…

Not to toot my own horn, but if I were in a Pluribus situation, I feel like I would do a much better job of asking questions.

I’ve always seen it as a meditation on marriage, relationships, and fear of commitment. It’s one of the formative “concept musicals” so it functions a little differently than a traditional book musical does en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept...

Spoiler Space: Was Wicked changed for good? The second half of the musical has always been weak. Splitting it into Wicked and Wicked: For Good only made it more obvious.

I put my theater degree to good use to talk about what Wicked: For Good changed from the stage show—and more importantly, what it didn’t

You're telling me Fiyero has been saying "It's up that I fell" this whole time??

The craziest thing about the Wicked movies is that I'm finally learning the lyrics I've been mishearing for 20+ years

The bubble bursts in ‘Wicked: For Good’ Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are the reason to return to Oz in this lesser sequel

Wicked: For Good isn't exactly "Wonderful," but at least Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo linger like a handprint on your heart. My review!

The bubble bursts in ‘Wicked: For Good’ Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are the reason to return to Oz in this lesser sequel

Wicked: For Good isn't exactly "Wonderful," but at least Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo linger like a handprint on your heart. My review!

That might actually be the most memory-holed part of all. I remember reading it as a kid and thinking "Welp, none of this weirdly specific political allegory stuff was in the Garland film!"

Absolutely! It’s all a cycle, I just worry how quickly the general public forgets the political fury of the past

The weird liberal image rehab/baby girlification of George W. Bush is an unthinkable evolution of how his presidency was thought of at the time and honestly terrifies me for how Trump will be remembered when someone worse comes along.

I’m watching a bootleg of the original cast where a satirical line about a character being an “unelected official” got APPLAUSE from the entire audience. This isn’t new.

One of the weird side effects of how memory-holed the George W. Bush presidency has become is people thinking the political critiques of Wicked are accidentally relevant to our current political climate and not pointedly aimed at another horrifying administration.