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space pirate, robot whisperer, word wrangler, marteau sans maître, purveyor of weapons of mass deconstruction – formerly bylined at Birth.Movies.Death
Patsy Kensit can't act for shit.
December 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Many happy returns, Lindsey!
December 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
As I've repeatedly said over the years and plenty of people have proven: rocket science is a piece of piss, but rocket engineering is a bitch
December 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Totally agree, and I've long held that you learn more from watching bad movies than good ones
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In my experience these are people who don't watch enough genuinely bad movies
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I was kind of mid on the movie until it got to that tribute montage that shouts THIS Is What A Movie Star Is and thereby shouts THIS Is What The Movies Is, and that hit so hard even before Clooney breaks the wall and asks for another take. I'm no huge Baumbach fan but this is a transcendent moment
December 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I don't think I've ever had anyone say "That's not real cinema" to me and not only am I okay with that, but I'd probably have to slap anyone who did
December 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
And I think we all appreciate the compromises that come with the realities of film production – my personal bugbear is RAISE THE TITANIC! – but having a record and discussion of the errors is both entertaining and informative
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I see you and I raise you Ana de Armas in BLONDE
December 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM