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CLUB KID isn't conservative, it just has a certain crowd-pleasing, disney-movie logic that clashes a bit with the (commendable!) realism of how the movie aims to honor "the scene." I had a good time but it's not a perfect synthesis and that's fine!!
To an extent it’s funny that Nintendo have such disdain for cutscenes and spoken dialogue they refuse to put resources into making it good but I’m surprised they’ve stubbornly continued down this track for quite a few years now
the voice acting in the Ocarina of Time remake is so bad that it should cause an industry reckoning. we don't need to live in a world where all video game characters sound like actual play podcasters "doing a voice"
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James Bond should go to Callum Turner because I don't like James Bond and I don't know who Callum Turner is.
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I enjoyed Club Kid well enough while watching it, but I'm surprised at the level of praise it's received given that it dives headlong into an incredibly emotionally knotty premise, then very deliberately refuses to explore it with any depth.
Shocked by critical enthusiasm for the cheerful, facile, sickly-sweet
Club Kid, which—thinking back to myself as a starting-out
movie-lover—would have made me rush out to see it and come out feeling
deceived and indignant, sure that the future had already passed officialdom by.
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The tragedy of Lonni is none of us know how we’d handle living under real fascism, and we know we could easily be the Lonni. Wilting under the pressure and ultimately a liability. He did save billions of people & ensure the survival of the rebellion though.
Why is it always about what Luthen sacrificed, and not about what his victims sacrificed? That's one thing that gets me about the dramatic emphasis of Andor. We're all supposed to feel so sorry for Luthen for being ruthless and evil--because oh, it makes him feel bad, but he HAD to do it--but there's never any real attempt to grapple with the possibility that he didn't have to do it, that he is just evil, and that he is a monster whose suffering was self-created.
Instead, we get tedious lectures about how "his" sacrifices were the foundation of the Rebel Alliance, and that everyone should be grateful to him. The show is supposedly about moral ambiguity, but none of its fans ever seem to take seriously the idea that Luthen's actions might not have been 100% justified, and that he's just a sick person who uses his ideology as a justification to hurt people. They're like the communist mirror images of "Anakin-maxxers." It's another really sick moral perversion of the intended message of Star Wars.
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Really enjoyed the confused ripples of everyone in the cinema thinking “what the hell is going ON” when the rockstar Witchfinder first came on screen in The Devils.
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Honestly part of why I think industry people dislike critics is so many of them speak so insultingly about processes they don’t understand. Like yeah sure, I’m sure legendary casting director Nina Gold has no idea why Robert Pattinson is good.
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I know I’ve said this before but it’s been recently found a large number of footballers have CTE from repeatedly heading a ball. So there’s seemingly no safe way to play football in its current form. Is the government going to ban headers from the TV?
However, the changes were designed to bring parity with our pornography rules offline, not just the criminal law. Strangulation is banned in offline pornography because there is no safe way to strangle.
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Honestly more likely that he was unprofessional and late all the time and he didn’t bring in sufficient box office to make that worth putting up with. Doubt they were even close to as bothered about the criminality.
Another question where Brand is concerned. He had Hollywood in his grasp. Suddenly, his Stateside movie career screeched to a halt.
Why? Did the movie moguls know or discover something?
Amazed me how all that ended so suddenly.
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Steven why won't you come back to movies :(
Steven Yeun and Paul Bettany will star in a new supernatural series ‘PAGANS’ for Netflix.
The series follows a man who must look after his 2 children after the loss of his wife, but his strained relationship with his daughter evolves into something sinister.
(Source: Deadline)
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Is it possible that the producers of The Batman 2 decided against announcing Brian Tyree Henry as Harvey Dent too far in advance to spare him a year of non-stop racist abuse everywhere he went online.
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Based off of the title announcement for TES6 featuring Elden Ring-esque rune coloration I now fully believe this leak where Todd Howard cried in his office for an hour is real
Why is David Walliams trending so much these days, doesn't seem like he's got much going on on the work front
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We’re about to learn which beloved actors are struggling to keep up with their mortgages
A ‘PADDY POWER’ biopic is in the works.
The film will follow the rise of the Dublin-based gambling website Paddy Power.
(Source: variety.com/2026/film/global…)
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It’s pretty normal for artists to hate critics, so I don’t know why it’s always treated like aberrant behaviour. Waititi’s quite annoying but I also increasingly don’t relate to schadenfreude at artists going off the boil. I would really prefer it if his films were good!
Taika Waititi has called critics “sad lost souls” after ‘KLARA AND THE SUN’ became his lowest rated film ever on Rotten Tomatoes.
“I haven't read a review of anything aimed at me or my peers in almost 15 years. But I do listen to the people.
So this Halloween, let's spare a thought for those sad lost souls who couldn't achieve their dreams of becoming artists, and thus became critics. The same people who also hated Jojo Rabbit!
Irrelevant. Out of touch. Obsolete. In the bin.”
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Sounds a lot like how National Trust properties work in the UK.
My head canon is that the reason Picard works at his family’s vineyard despite the federation being post scarcity is that tourists from all human planets like having all this stuff preserved as kitsch. “A real French guy making real French wine, just like in ye olden days”
All of Earth is like this
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Obv it’s not good if people play with strangulation so often during sex it affects their long term health but many former footballers have CTE from heading the ball repeatedly, and I don’t think the UK gov are looking at banning football from TV?
Did you know that on the 6th of November 2026 the UK Government is banning the publication and possession of pornography depicting breath play, age-play, and incest?
The maximum sentence for publication offences is five years imprisonment.
This will affect publishers and consumers globally.
The offences are, in simple terms:
1. Strangulation or suffocation.
(2 years for possession, 5 years for publication)
2. Penetrative sexual activity between people pretending to be related.
(2 years for possession, 5 years for publication)
3. Sexual activity between two people where (a reasonable person would think) at least one person is, or is pretending to be, under sixteen.
(3 years for possession, 5 years for publication)
I have provided criminal and obscenity law advice to UK and global creators, producers, platforms, and consumers on pornography publication and possession offences since 2006.
Please feel free to contact me at law@mylesjackman.com for formal legal advice.
gov.uk/guidance/crime-and-po…
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