Anyway, the proper rating for 90% of films is either “two and a half stars (derogatory)” or “two and a half stars (complimentary).”

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The Jackson estate can't hide Leaving Neverland from those who've already seen it A suppressive legal battle turned the moving Sundance documentary Leaving Neverland into a ghost haunting the Michael Jackson biopic.

I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For @avclub.com I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.

Evergreen reminder this 420: No one should be in prison for weed.

Without stating your age, post your favorite film from the year you turned 18

(I can't pick)

I love this for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that I live with a man who is 6'8" and so know all about the shenanigans of tall men exaggerating their own height and also other tall men's height in comparison to their own

Finally caught up with Peter Hujar's Day (on the Criterion Channel), and I adored it

For Boston Hassle I reviewed THE CHRISTOPHERS, one of Steven Soderbergh’s warmest and most human movies in ages (and sadly, if he keeps on using AI, for ages to come). bostonhassle.com/review-the-c...

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Thinking about sending a letter with my taxes this year that begins, "Dear imperialist swine"

Did a diy avocado face mask this weekend for a bit, but it's actually made my face feel really nice

No, you're so right. We can add deadpan comedy to his skill set 😂 His delivery of "I will not be complicit in the illicit use of ill-gotten booty" is an all-timer

To be clear, looking at a co-star like he wants to eat her up IS the skill set

Not all good rom-coms have bad scripts. Some of them have great ones. But a good script is not a requirement for a decent rom-com if you have the perfect leads

You, Me & Tuscany is what I mean when I say that a rom-com lives and dies by its leads. Terrible script and purely serviceable filmmaking; but Halle Bailey *sparkles* and Regé-Jean Page looks at her like he wants to eat her up. And I ate it up. It was cute, chemistry kept it afloat

Doing some freelance research that involves going through university Common Data Sets, and I just found one form from 2007 that's been answered in Comic Sans font

Tolstoy once said there are only three stories in the world: A man goes on a journey, a stranger comes to town, and Big Dick Richie’s dick is too big.

do you ever think about the time @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social wrote the greatest lede in history in an essay about Magic Mike XXL? yeah me too electricliterature.com/magic-mike-x...

It's always nice to look at an old, abandonded draft of an essay and realize that it's basically finished and you actually like it

Willem Dafoe x Martin Scorsese's THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988)

Top 3 films of 2026 (so far)?

Ooo, probably (in no order) Bone Temple, Send Help, and Forbidden Fruits. Horror all the way down 🖤

fuck a firefly revival, give me the rest of Glow

(Yes, this is an invitation to pitch me guest posts if I know you or your work, and you have something you'd love to write that's not really going to find a home anywhere else.)

I am working on posting more regularly myself on my site, BUT I do publish guest posts occasionally. I can't provide you prestige, but I'll edit & host your work and pay you for it. Trying to do my part to make the internet a more interesting place!

www.delayedresponses.com/guest-post/

A little basket full of complimentary tampons tucked into the corner of a public bathroom counter

Tell me the manager of this AMC is a woman without telling me the manager of this AMC is a woman

I think it's only a matter of time before I start sincerely referring to Rock of Ages as a film maudit and everyone starts shunning me

Update: Part 2 does not include any mention of Russell Brand and Alec Baldwin singing REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" to each other and then kissing (I have never been able to tell if this duet is supposed to be a joke or sincere or both or what)

Wagner Moura Joins Kristen Stewart In Panos Cosmatos’ Vampire Thriller ‘Flesh Of The Gods’ As A24 Picks Up U.S. Rights Wagner Moura has joined 'Flesh of the Gods,' a vampire thriller from Panos Cosmatos that A24 has newly boarded as U.S. distributor.

On the one hand, I will not get my dream podcast crossover project (Oscar Isaac in a vampire movie), but on the other hand... WAGNER FUCKING MOURA

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Weirdly sounds okay on the ukulele, stripped of its synth-tastic pizazz (But I have since added a chuck in the chorus to make the "pop" pop, as it were)

I'm practicing a ukulele cover of "Pop! Goes My Heart" and another of "Accidentally in Love" from Shrek 2 for the next open mic, in case you doubted my commitment to the bit. (Except the bit here is learning to play the songs that my two-year-olds with eclectic musical taste enjoy.)

I think the best way for Mike White to cement his cross-genre legacy would be for him to produce a reality show in which players compete to be cast on the next season of White Lotus

reading a book about a bad person will in fact turn you into one. authors are lying to you about this because they’re all bad people themselves