Case to be made that really, About a Boy is the best Christmas movie, and I should have started this fight a few days ago, but just to up the ante...
Better than High Fidelity
Best Hugh Grant movie
The reason it's the best Hugh Grant movie is that it is the one that best marries "adorbageek Hugh Grant" with "sleezy Hugh Grant."
The ones where he's just one or the other are too easy.
And, while High Fidelity has a great compilation soundtrack, it's not even the best Cusak compilation soundtrack (that'd be Grosse Point Blank) Fall Out Boy's original songs are...perfect
AND TONI COLETTE IS AMAZING
The three main performances are perfection.
^Badly Drawn Boy
*hangs head in shame*
This is perhaps the greatest critics vs public divide I've ever seen and most wrong the public has ever been.
and...this is how after more than a dozen viewings, I finally put together that his name is: Will Freeman.
Hugh is an early “live, laugh, love” basic bitch though
Is there any other movie that manages to be so insightful about suicide, social suicide, and other forms of self annihilation and yet...is also funny?
.@NicholasHoult, who Paramount missed casting as a Romulan child at the time, is now in The Great, which is very bawdy and otherwise eyebrow raising and is, well, great.
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Every American should read this and related articles in full but if you need a comitragic plot point to pull you in, here you go nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/…
If our democracy doesn’t totally collapse, some of the people, Meadows among them, should wind up in jail. I wouldn’t take a bet, though.
This is one of those details that I probably knew but since forgot, because it feels like 10,000 years ago, and also yesterday
You know what? Let's do better than that. In honor of @bethanyshondark odious question, let's get this teacher of low-income MA kids the subscriptions to @Highlights and other magazines she's asking for. Just need $266 more: donorschoose.org/project/mesmer…
Lot of "actually" guys in these replies. I've been saying for months that we should require vaccines to fly, obv with excecptions for the too-young or real medical reasons. Yes, I think it would boost overall rates, to what %, who knows. But what it would ALSO do...
...is cut violent incidents on planes way down.
It would slow the spread of fast-moving variants.
And, most importantly, it would put shift the penalties of the pandemic more squarely on to those who refuse to vax, where they should be.
1/ saw Rent tonight. Mostly feels entirely contemporary, centering LGBTQ/Black characters; explorations of homeless/drug/AIDS/gentrification…but you know what just fucking killed me?
2/ two couples in their 20s behind me and kid who were talking about how they had *no idea* what show was about before it started (ok fine) and then…in a show about poverty or deprivation…
3/ went on to talks, LOUDLY, about their various cars, and their parents $2M Cupertino mansion, and the Grand piano that nobody plays but for which walls had be moved…
Rich techies, teach your kids to stfu, if only for their own safety omfg.