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Most critics couldn’t control themselves when it came to over-praising Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. Yesterday they were panting and shrieking and hyperventilating, and guess what? Joe and Jane Popcorn pulled a “meh” and mostly stayed away in droves.
April 29, 2023 1:15 pmby Jeffrey Wells

Steven Spielberg recently apologized for digitally altering E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial by replacing handguns with walkie-talkies, and everyone seemed to agree -- it's better to leave awkward 20th Century scenes alone and not try to cater to 21st Century sensibilities.
April 29, 2023 11:03 amby Jeff Wells

HE haters can take shots at Elon Musk and repeat their woke-denying bullshit, but please tell me how it’s a good, approvable thing for a typical high-school student to be asked what he/she knows about George Washington, and the first thing out of his/her mouth is “he was a slave owner.” That’s the woke mind virus in a nutshell.

April 29, 2023 9:33 amby Jeff Wells


The people who abuse the word "great" are the same ones who say "amazing," "absolutely", "awesome" and "he/she is a genius."
April 29, 2023 9:19 amby Jeff Wells

Did those cruel paparazzi shots that surfaced a couple of weeks ago inspire Jack to return to his courtside seat?

If I were Jack I wouldn’t stop there. I would concurrently (a) drop 30 or 40 pounds on a Zen diet, (b) get a Hollywood Elsewhere micro-hair-plug Prague special, and (c) color my my hair so it’s dark gray, not borderline white. But that’s me.

Those perfectly tinted eyeglasses — half amber, half sunset red — are magnificent.

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April 29, 2023 8:53 amby Jeff Wells

I used to do Elmer Fudd for my friends when I was eight or nine. I was renowned for this. You could call the current version "Old Fudd between oxygen tank inhalations", but this is what I sounded like as a kid.
April 29, 2023 8:26 amby Jeff Wells

…the pitchforkers will sulk and scowl all the more.

Instagram photo credit: David Geimer.

April 28, 2023 2:47 pmby Jeffrey Wells

There's a moment in Martin Scorsese's After Hours ('85) when Griffin Dunne's miserable lost soul eyeballs a graffiti drawing of a guy's schlong getting chomped on by a shark.
April 28, 2023 1:11 pmby Jeff Wells

Moon-faced FBI guy Tom White (Jesse Plemons): “I was sent down from Washington D.C. to see about these murders.”

Scurvy conspirator Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio): “See what about it?”

White: “See who’s doing it.” — Killers of the Flower Moon dialogue, according to Variety‘s Brent Lang.

April 28, 2023 12:17 pmby Jeff Wells


When was the last time Chris Nolan had no choice but to explore or otherwise settle into a reality realm -- a realm defined by the same terms that all sane earthlings are more or less obliged to live by? The answer, of course, is 2017's Dunkirk. But before that, Nolan's last RR flick (i.e., no exceptional visual augmentation) was Insomnia, which is nearly 20 years old. (It opened at the Tribeca Film Festival on 5.3.22, and commercially on 5.24.02.)
April 28, 2023 11:44 amby Jeff Wells

But surely he understands that reactions to the Bud Light and Maybelline promotions demonstrate that he’s triggered fierce emotion in the hinterlands. He can’t dismiss that entirely. DM is living on an isolated island, and residents of the territory surrounding that island have spoken. They can’t all be idiots.

Mulvaney is obviously free to promote whatever as long as corporate America sees an upside. More power, no skin off my backside, etc.

My understanding is that DM is biologically male and hasn’t resorted to surgical alteration…right? I further understand that Dylan regards anyone who may allude to his biological origins and/or ignores his preferred pronouns as a bad or even criminal person. But he has to understand, surely, that pretending to be a woman is different than having actually been born as a biological woman or, failing that, having been surgically altered into womanhood.

April 28, 2023 11:31 amby Jeff Wells

Rachel McAdams' performance in Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret is fine as far as it goes. As Barbara Simon, the mother of Abby Ryder Fortson's titular character, she radiates calmness, caring, focus, fortitude. Which is all she's been asked to do. It's not an attention-seeking performance, and it certainly isn't an end-of-the-year thing. A lot of people have lost their composure over this film, jumping up and down and insisting upon its greatness. To put it as mildly as possible, they're embarassing themselves. It's a nice little movie, but let it go.
April 28, 2023 10:03 amby Jeffrey Wells

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