well, I guess I couldn't help myself: after seeing it for round 3, I wrote 3,000 words about what Wake Up Dead Man (and the Knives Out movies in general) are saying about God.
https://t.co/pBT8wLIWWF
I know some people are mad at this, but it feels more like an overdue swinging of the pendulum away from Prestige Television and its accumulated clichés. It's the Academy saying "Hey, remember television? Wasn't it great? Let's do TV shows again."
That Fetterman profile is perhaps the most arresting piece of political journalism I’ve read in a few years and it’s clear he shouldn’t run for re-election. Praying for his family.
dev patel, one of the few working class brits allowed into showbiz via the class-conscious casting of skins, reaching a level of stardom where he can make his own projects and exclusively making movies about poor people slaughtering the rich and powerful .. im seeing the vision
still amazed the movie companies made "tvs are square but only in theaters can you see rectangle" a slam dunk marketing strategy and then a half century later somehow managed to pull off "tvs are rectangle but only in theaters can you see square"
i’m baffled that some people can’t wrap their heads around this.
they did not spend 5 consecutive months doing only this scene. there was so much involved that they split up the filming, construction, and special/practical effects over 5 months because that’s how filming works
Ohhh you’re a woman who didn’t love a Scorsese or Tarantino movie?? How groundbreaking! Is Jennifer’s Body an underrated masterpiece? And literally no one gets that American Psycho and Fight Club are satire except you? Should we invite Greta Gerwig and make a Barbie sequel?
This sort of ideological hegemony is exactly why the CIA backed projects like the Iowa Writer's Workshop, which taught an entire generation of writers to come up with their preferred sort of slop, which promptly trickled down to every elementary school in the country.
A sitting Congresswomen using a disgusting and bigoted slur about Americans who staged a nonviolent protest. People who use this type of despicable language should not be leading anyone.
I can't stay quiet on this one. The gaslighting in @jk_rowling latest rant is at critical levels. I have to break it down with a whole thread, because if I don't I'm going to remain feeling cheesed off.
Let's talk about who is really rewriting history here, shall we?
The Onion has acquired Infowars in a bankruptcy auction.
They plan to debut a new Infowars in January that will serve as parody, mocking weird Internet personalities like Alex Jones.
The Onion CEO says they acquired it because “this is the funniest thing that has ever happened”