My spirit wilted as I read “Sundance Wish List: 60 Films We Hope Will Head to Park City in 2020,” written by Team Indiewire. As I scanned the descriptions I came upon four that I’m half-interested in — Sean Durkin‘s The Nest, Dee Rees’ The Last Thing He Wanted, Behn Zeitlin‘s Wendy and Todd Haynes‘ … Read more
HE is not really trying to effectuate a One Battle After Another takedown campaign. Yesterday’s VistaVision carping aside, I’m simply saying that Paul Thomas Anderson‘s insurrectionist POC girlboss epic hasn’t a prayer of winning the Best Picture Oscar because winning in this category will, in the minds of Average Joe and Jane ticket buyers, permanently … Read more
Will hardcore progressives smell the coffee? Are they even capable of doing so? Unless they abandon all the wokey crap and stop playing racial-identity politics (i.e., never permitting another Lily Gladstone-styled Best Actress identity campaign) and renounce gender affirming care for minors and drag shows in elementary schools and generally embrace the sensibly moderate theology … Read more
American Eagle’s official slogan — “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans” is code for “Sydney Sweeney has great tits” or “Sydney Sweeney has a great ass.” Obviously. And all the sexless, Stalinist wokesters are howling about this….(a) “Eugenics!”, (b) “They’re weird…like Nazi weird…like fascist weird…dog-whistle shit.”
Posted today (3.8) by Jeff “Insneider” Sneider: Warner Bros. will release Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride (which reportedly contains “big dance numbers”) on 9.26.25. Here’s the Wiki synopsis: Jessie Buckley’s “bride” naturally has to exact revenge upon her malevolent murderer…totally necessary, dramatically required. But my blood ran cold and my skin turned to alabaster when I … Read more
The “Free the Menendez Brothers” wokeys believed that that alleged sexual abuse of Erik Menendez by his murdered father Jose Menendez…the wokeys and their chief advocates, former Los Angeles district attorney George Gascon along with Kim Kardashian and Monsters producer Ryan Murphy, should have changed the game. The wokeys were basically saying the brothers probably … Read more
A documentary based on Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt‘s “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure” is currently streaming. The basic drill is that too many campus Zoomers have succumbed to woke tyranny, and that “many problems on campus have their origins in … Read more
I’ve long regarded Awards Daily‘s Sasha Stone as an exceptionally brilliant and perceptive diviner of the human condition and especially political behavior in both the Hollywood and Washington, D.C. realms. She’s also an excellent, true-blue human being — certainly among the most loving and supportive friends I’ve ever known. We’ve had our spats over the … Read more
6.4.24, 7:15 am: I’ve just hit upon a great Biden campaign theme, inspired by Dido’s “Thank You.” No joke, not being satirical…this could really work. His campaign chiefs need to buy the rights and persuade Dido to record a Biden version with re-written lyrics, in the exact same way the JFK campaign got Frank Sinatra … Read more
Don’t kid yourself — one of the social factors behind the horrific likelihood that Donald Trump is going to win the November election…one of these factors was clumsily and unspecifically alluded to last weekend by Richard Dreyfuss, to wit: “We have no knowledge of who the hell we are, and if we don’t get it … Read more
Lily Gladstone‘s Killers of the Flower Moon Best Actress campaign isn’t just founded upon her Native American identity, although that’s obviously the main rallying point. (Gladstone is a distant but direct cousin of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, who served from 1868 to 1894.) Now hear this: According to various sources including her Wiki … Read more
In a 9.12 Time cover story by Stephanie Zacharek, Killers of the Flower Moon director Martin Scorsese has confirmed what costar Lily Gladstone told Variety‘s Zack Sharf nine months ago, which was that Flower Moon, a sprawling crime epic about the FBI’s investigation of the Osage Nation murders in 1920s Oklahoma, was given a woke … Read more