okay, im a week late to this but i have something to say about the 2014-2024 montage at the top of this movie after the predator from pretty little liars shakes his fists at the sky.

here’s the thing — netflix is never going to take a political stance on anything, even if the assignment is to illustrate one of the most politically fraught decades in american history. bernie sanders mittens was always going to appear vs devastating pandemic, squid…

when p&p first came out i was in sixth grade, had just started reading jane austen, loved keira knightley and was completely devastated it wasn't playing at the chain theaters near where we lived. then one day -- i don't if i knew or it was a surprise -- my dad drove us 45 minutes away to the nearest independent theater showing it, in spite of having no interest in it himself. we went to loring hall cinema in…

saw it in a full house and i don’t know! it’s nice to see TB back in his practical effects bag (sometimes), but a heavy reliance on underwritten relationships and a glut of (well performed, everyone’s having fun yada yada) characters just made me feel like… wow, this creative team hasn’t been around a normal person in decades.

so much of what made me fall in love with early TB is that he had enough of a grip and a…

deadass: when i was a kid, i would get on the roof of our porch from 11:40pm every april 14th until 2:20am the 15th and have a vigil for the people who died on the titanic at the exact times the ship sank. my parents were afraid i'd fall asleep and off the roof so my dad would have to stay up and kind of just check to make sure i was alive every ten minutes. i would be very…