…and those of Mayor Pete:

Based on Anthony Quinn‘s “Curtain Call”, adapted by Patrick Marber and directed by Anand Tucker, The Critic — a British period thriller — opens on 9.14.24.

Eight years ago Tom Hanks said a very bad thing, at least according to the HE commentariat. He said that his career “peaked in the ’90s” — a heinous statement by any standard but particularly egregious by HE commenter standards. All careers are glorious, and the use of the term “peaking” represents an obscene way of looking at them. Obviously this kind of dismissive thinking needed to be stamped out back then and it certainly needs to be stamped out now.

The Bad and the Beautiful‘s Harry Pebble: “Give me a picture that ends with a kiss and black ink on the books.”

Friendo: “Why oh why did they eliminate the kiss-at-the-airport finale?”

HE: “Because a kiss at the end isn’t a feminist progressive #MeToo ending. Lee Isaac Chung was adamant that Twisters is whatsername’s story…Daisy Edgar-Jones. He wanted to avoid the old romantic cliche finale, which of course is what the audience wanted. He also wanted to ‘gay it up’ on the fringe with Sasha Lane and Katy O’Brian.”

Friendo: “Okay, ‘gay it up’, fine. So why doesn’t the film have a trans character?”

HE: “It does! Glen Powell‘s Tyler Owens character is trans. He was born Tiki Owens and even had a couple of tornado-chasing, anally-obsessed boyfriends in her teens, but Tiki decided to become a non-binary they and she…sorry, “they” gradually decided to become an all-male, cocksure cowboy stud type.”

WHY DID THEY CUT THE KISS pic.twitter.com/is7XhI9iu9

— zara ️ TWISTERS SPOILERS (@seresinbradshaw) July 18, 2024