I don't really believe IQ is a meaningful metric in any way, but if I did, I'd say that complaining about the length of movies is a sign of a low one

The only American teams it is acceptable to support in international play: basketball and women's soccer. That's the list.

*bangs gavel*

I love being told so-and-so isn't revolutionary enough by people who voted for Biden in the 2020 primary

I thought the Comrade Josh stuff in One Battle After Another was amusing, but maybe a little ungenerous, the film's weak link, but the willfully ignorant response to its Oscars success by vote blue no matter who faux revolutionaries has only made it age like fine wine

1. Phantom Thread
2. Licorice Pizza
3. Inherent Vice
4. The Master
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Punch Drunk Love
7. Hard Eight
8. Boogie Nights
9. Magnolia

All great movies

Between the tortured misreadings of OBAA and the absurdly bad faith conversation around Timmy's throwaway opera comments, I've never needed an Oscar season to end more than this one

The need to turn everything into team sports has convinced many people who want Sinners to win Best Picture that PTA is a racist rube (if I see one more person suggest that OBAA "fetishizes" black liberation when the movie is partly a satire about exactly that, I'm gonna go crazy)

Fair enough. So you'd have no problem if somebody dropped a bomb on Bibi's house?

Bibi and Trump, war criminals both, get trials in your hypothetical, but it's OK to blow up Khameni without due process. Got it!

*sigh*

Kid Rock

To be fair, I don't think Ethan Hawke knows that he was in The Black Phone 2 either

At a screening of Josef von Sternberg's Morocco that is packed with young people on a cold Saturday night in Detroit. Cinema ain't dead yet, folks!

If you all hate J.D. Vance as much as you say, I expect you to be rooting for Michigan on November 29th :)

Hard to see Denis of all people taking a different tack here, sadly. Dude seems pathologically allergic to "fun." Get ready for Brutalist Bond!

Back at Panera and now I'm eavesdropping on two nice liberal grandmas rave about Conclave

It's not too late to correct the historical record by letting Portishead do a Bond theme

At Panera eavesdropping on two high-school age white girls talking about the Oscars and Grammys:

"Nobody likes Hollywood anymore. They're not Christians."

"The songs in Emilia Perez suck. And it's pushing a trans agenda."

"Beyonce isn't real country."

The early aughts are back, baby!

I wonder how these people feel about state-sponsored executions or the deaths of children in Gaza. I'll bet they've found a couple of excuses for those!