Hollywood Gadfly

JUST IN: German public broadcaster begins “anti-AC campaign” warning of the dangers of air conditioning, as record heat wave hits the region.

Next fad to hit gen z males: Stalkmaxxing.

This has gotta be the only industry where people get upset about nepotism. Like, I WISH my dad was JJ Abrams. If I had wanted to drive a bread truck you better believe my dad would have picked up the phone for me. If you grow up around the best director and actors and producers and agents in the world, you're going to start on third base. Good for you.

One of the best debut films by any director ever.

One of the things worth noting about SUPERGIRL is that the opening weekend audience was *59 percent* male. It’s not just that no one was interested in this, it’s that women specifically were not interested in this.

Hollywood still searching for that one true female led superhero movie banger

People from wealthy families cosplaying as self-made underdogs who started with nothing. This has been going on a long time but anyone who actually started with nothing can see right through it.

One of the greatest pieces I have ever read. If you want to know how screwed up Hollywood indie cinema system is, read this.

The language of filmmaking has rapidly changed. It comes from a new generation of filmmakers that started by putting the camera on themselves. They view it less from the perspective of an all enveloping cinema screen but more as tool for performance capture. The shot and editing design is primarily simple, with angles clean on the face without much visual cues unless it's a direct point of view. Meanwhile action scenes are replicating a potpourri of stuntman action reels or previz animatics. It's very telling AI flip flops between these two styles because they are the standard pulls. It's interesting to see styles and trends evolve. We are squarely in a third person objective camera phase now. It's not good or bad. It's lingua franca, and frankly, I'm still processing it.

The goal of leftist theory and activism makes sense once you see it put together. Leftist theory, as an ensemble, is a dialectical framing trick to paint Western civilization as domination, raise consciousness against it, negate it, and replace it with a “higher” social order.

I'm trying to think of actors who dropped into a classic movie, threw 110mph for a couple of minutes, then were never seen again. I mean, how was Stephen Park not in everything after this master performance in Fargo?