How can I ask anyone to love me
When all I do is beg to be left alone?
Oh, and I tried to love

The best I can come up with is if you could casually refer to it as "the [famous person's name]" movie, then it's a biopic.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is "the Mister Rogers movie," but Wolf of Wall Street is not "the Jordan Belfort movie."

Will that do?

Like, does it have to be a biography and tell the whole story? Or can it just tell about one day in the life of a real person?

Is Wolf of Wall Street a biopic? Is Deliver Me from Nowhere? Schindler's List? A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood?

I genuinely don't know.

When we say "biopic," what do we even mean? I'm not sure I know anymore.

I'd like to hear him say it totally serious like he's in an M:I film.

"You *guessed* it. Frank Stallone."

Fast-forward to Tom Cruise winning his Oscar for "NORM STORY"

How are people so dumb about this show?

Pretty weird that this is my last post before my post about the movie DOGFIGHT

Feels great when I actually watch a movie off my watchlist, instead of renting ANACONDA or some shit.

It's so lovely.

I'll be honest. I never quite *got* the River Phoenix hype until I saw Running on Empty. His other works didn't quite do it for me. And Dogfight seals it. I get it now.

Watched 1991's DOGFIGHT for the first time last night. Incredible River Phoenix performance, so subtle, nuanced, and natural. Lili Taylor destroys. And it's a beautiful portrait of a moment in time.

Is dere a dog dat fights udder dogs

HERSHEY Trailer (2026) Alexandra Daddario YouTube video by Movies & Co.

Is this a sneak preview of TROPIC THUNDER 2? www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSt...

I resent Noah Kahan for being a wildly more successful half-Jewish songwriter named Noah who loves dogs. In his defense, I had 17 years to get ahead of him and I didn't do it.

The viewer is now the author of the work. A new auteur era.

I have an idea for a show called "Noah Gittell Plays His Hits," where I walk on stage with my guitar and simply stare at the audience for an hour.

Not everything has to be a fucking debate.

I am going to assume Soderbergh was kidding about the AI thing - just like he was kidding about the "I'm retiring" thing.

Same to you!

I share a birthday with Kristen Stewart, Hugh Hefner, Elle Fanning, and Dennis Quaid. It sounds like a pretty awkward dinner party.

I always choose the Ramirez I know over the Ramirez I don't. The door stays shut.

“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“

I know cinema is in bad shape because there hasn’t been a good “what are you gonna do with your share of the loot” scene in a while.

I am finding it quite easy to begrudge.

I'm pretty sure you're supposed to read some sarcasm into that headline.

You obviously do know what I mean!

And finally, I can't help but think that this is a prime effect of the Ringer-ification of our film discourse. You know what I mean.

I think a lot of it has to do with our desperation to "save" the movie business, and our subsequent equating of box-office success with quality. PROJECT HAIL MARY is a pretty good, pretty fun sci-fi movie that made a lot of money. It will not save our souls.