Rob
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Oh God I can’t do this again I really can’t
Oh my God, this is all so undignified. Shut up, all of you, SHUT UPPPPPPPP.
April 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Oh my God, this is all so undignified. Shut up, all of you, SHUT UPPPPPPPP.
Made it through the first episode of Adolescence and I really think TV needs to call a moratorium on the one-shot episode. If your pilot is 65 minutes and you haven’t made any cuts, that’s not a good thing.
March 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Made it through the first episode of Adolescence and I really think TV needs to call a moratorium on the one-shot episode. If your pilot is 65 minutes and you haven’t made any cuts, that’s not a good thing.
Requesting a temporary injunction against the celebrity memoir industry
January 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Requesting a temporary injunction against the celebrity memoir industry
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Because as everybody knows, TV ratings work retroactively and viewership can be rescinded based on who ends up winning the awards.
January 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Because as everybody knows, TV ratings work retroactively and viewership can be rescinded based on who ends up winning the awards.
I’m sticking with Severance for now but it’s the kind of streaming show that sent me back to the ragged, scrappy embrace of daytime soaps a few years back: expensive, deliberate, polished, tweaked, and art-directed to death.
January 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I’m sticking with Severance for now but it’s the kind of streaming show that sent me back to the ragged, scrappy embrace of daytime soaps a few years back: expensive, deliberate, polished, tweaked, and art-directed to death.
I realize this is true of most TV shows, but the women on Severance are so much more interesting than the men.
January 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I realize this is true of most TV shows, but the women on Severance are so much more interesting than the men.
*bangs gavel*
I’ve seen enough.
I’ve seen enough.
January 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
*bangs gavel*
I’ve seen enough.
I’ve seen enough.
September 5 is one of those movies that’s more impressive for what it doesn’t do (i.e., ladle on a bunch of only-in-hindsight “perspective”) than for what it does (offer a lean, technically seamless reenactment of a situation we journalism majors likely already studied closely in college).
January 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
September 5 is one of those movies that’s more impressive for what it doesn’t do (i.e., ladle on a bunch of only-in-hindsight “perspective”) than for what it does (offer a lean, technically seamless reenactment of a situation we journalism majors likely already studied closely in college).
Get one (1) drink in me and listen to me go off about how Julianne Moore’s soap training is a big reason why she’s as great as she is. (The Room Next Door, in which the dialogue is doing a lot of heavy lifting, is evidence of this. She sells it exquisitely.)
January 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Get one (1) drink in me and listen to me go off about how Julianne Moore’s soap training is a big reason why she’s as great as she is. (The Room Next Door, in which the dialogue is doing a lot of heavy lifting, is evidence of this. She sells it exquisitely.)
I was deeply moved by The Room Next Door *and* I want to see Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley in a parody of it. Both things can be true.
January 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I was deeply moved by The Room Next Door *and* I want to see Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley in a parody of it. Both things can be true.
Celebrities don’t actually die in threes but Bob Uecker/David Lynch/Joan Plowright is *quite* the triad.
January 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Celebrities don’t actually die in threes but Bob Uecker/David Lynch/Joan Plowright is *quite* the triad.
Timothée Chalamet stuns as Julia Houston in Smash
January 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Timothée Chalamet stuns as Julia Houston in Smash
Surely Melissa Leo has a dartboard with Jamie Lee Curtis’s face on it for stealing all of her grizzled everywoman roles.
January 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Surely Melissa Leo has a dartboard with Jamie Lee Curtis’s face on it for stealing all of her grizzled everywoman roles.
The “inspired by true events” title card at the end of The Girl With The Needle is a real life ruiner, isn’t it?
January 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The “inspired by true events” title card at the end of The Girl With The Needle is a real life ruiner, isn’t it?
One irritation I do have with the end of year platform release is when they all expand at once. For example, The Brutalist, Hard Truths, Room Next Door, Last Showgirl, September 5, and Girl With A Needle all open in Boston today for some reason.
January 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
One irritation I do have with the end of year platform release is when they all expand at once. For example, The Brutalist, Hard Truths, Room Next Door, Last Showgirl, September 5, and Girl With A Needle all open in Boston today for some reason.
The incessant “Dry January/kids are California sober now/Fortune 500 execs are microdosing” messaging is really getting oppressive, like a 21st century temperance movement only somehow more annoying.
January 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The incessant “Dry January/kids are California sober now/Fortune 500 execs are microdosing” messaging is really getting oppressive, like a 21st century temperance movement only somehow more annoying.
Everybody’s dunking on that Mangold DGA nod but A Complete Unknown is one of the movies that exceeded my expectations this season—it’s sweeping and extremely well-mounted. Plus of course the guilds go for a movie in which an artist outsmarts the executives and the audience.
January 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Everybody’s dunking on that Mangold DGA nod but A Complete Unknown is one of the movies that exceeded my expectations this season—it’s sweeping and extremely well-mounted. Plus of course the guilds go for a movie in which an artist outsmarts the executives and the audience.
Los Angeles is by far my favorite American city to visit—these images are so painful.
January 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Los Angeles is by far my favorite American city to visit—these images are so painful.
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hOW cAn i mAkE tHis aBOuT mE
January 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
hOW cAn i mAkE tHis aBOuT mE
SAG nods goofy af but the one that stopped me in my tracks was Kathy Bates for The Great Lillian Hall over Jessica Lange…who plays the great Lillian Hall.
January 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
SAG nods goofy af but the one that stopped me in my tracks was Kathy Bates for The Great Lillian Hall over Jessica Lange…who plays the great Lillian Hall.
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SAG Awards have increasingly become a fun way to see who's the best at sending screeners.
January 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
SAG Awards have increasingly become a fun way to see who's the best at sending screeners.
Awards season was more fun before every contender had a QAnon-style smear narrative attached to them, forged in the Petri dish of illiterate shut-ins known as TikTok.
January 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Awards season was more fun before every contender had a QAnon-style smear narrative attached to them, forged in the Petri dish of illiterate shut-ins known as TikTok.
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“I feel bad for not knowing what’s happening in the news.”
Just a reminder that absolutely none of these people “in the news” are entitled to your time, your energy, your emotions and mental bandwidth, or the clicks/views that keep making them all richer. Period.
Just a reminder that absolutely none of these people “in the news” are entitled to your time, your energy, your emotions and mental bandwidth, or the clicks/views that keep making them all richer. Period.
January 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“I feel bad for not knowing what’s happening in the news.”
Just a reminder that absolutely none of these people “in the news” are entitled to your time, your energy, your emotions and mental bandwidth, or the clicks/views that keep making them all richer. Period.
Just a reminder that absolutely none of these people “in the news” are entitled to your time, your energy, your emotions and mental bandwidth, or the clicks/views that keep making them all richer. Period.
If I was in a very “this really could’ve been a movie” headspace by the end of Severance season 1, should I bother with season 2?
January 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If I was in a very “this really could’ve been a movie” headspace by the end of Severance season 1, should I bother with season 2?