Emily St. James

I always love seeing Woodworking in a shiny library cover!

Can you travel back in time and give him my info

Found The Secret Agent almost unbearably moving, and my second main takeaway is that Wagner Moura is ABSURDLY hot.

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

I am a huge ATJ skeptic, but he's amazing in 28 Years Later

One thing about Joe Wright is that he's never boring. Sometimes he's inspired! Sometimes he's very stupid! But he's never BORING.

Eh!

Hanson has made more movies that have been embraced by the more masculine sides of online film culture. Kinda think that's the easiest way to predict who will win any given March Madness match-up.

(I do think people are seriously underestimating the potential wildness of a Wright mini. The Soloist is god awful! Hanna low-key rocks. Anna Karenina is being reappraised as the classic THAT IT IS. He made Pan for some reason!)

You know what you did*!

*-appreciated Wonder Boys for the fine film it is

Look, I support this. Don't think I don't.

"Oh, Emily, but Wonder Boys..." No! NO. No.

Hanson made LA Confidential, a perfect example of how to adapt an unadaptable book by changing lots but honoring its spirit, but Wright made Pride & Prejudice, a perfect example of how to turn an oft-adapted comedy into a romantic drama. It is one of my favorite movies ever made. The Wright Stuff!!

For as long as I can remember, I wanted to live in West Egg

People keep being, like, "How did Trump and his administration not foresee..." about any number of things, most recently Iran, and, like, have we ever considered that they're just really stupid and incurious?

"There are no good creative uses for LLMS," I said with great confidence before I remembered a longstanding desire to rewrite The Great Gatsby as though it were being narrated by Ray Liotta from Goodfellas.

I am only able to hear the right one in Ray Liotta Goodfellas voiceover voice.

Ehhhhhh, I only watched this one episode in a total vacuum for this piece, but I recall it being better than most. Sydney is the protagonist, and it's about her journey, and the show takes that seriously.

Imagine, for a second, that your whole profession had to employ people who had not just never done anything wrong or even suspicious or even hypocritical, but had to only employ people who had never done anything that could give the APPEARANCE of one of those via bad-faith readings.

The best shows always are.

Tried to write about why I, as an audience member, don't particularly care if a story makes sense or if I can follow every particular. Usually.

This has been pointed out many times (including by Evan!), but it bears repeating that this is the same playbook used to sow suspicion on vaccinations and the existence of climate change.

For some reason, an inordinate number of Oscar nominees this year seem to be about the enormous difficulty of believing in a better world for your children's sake, while preparing them for the one they actually live in. Not sure why that theme would appeal right now.

After detainments and deportations, the lives left behind in Minnesota From abandoned possessions to unpaid rent, many Minnesotans had to lean on family, friends and community organizations for help with their unfinished business.

"Each person plucked from their day-to-day existence left a whole life behind. There are shoes by the front door and an empty bed. There’s a car in the driveway and a job undone. There are pets that need feeding, bills that keep arriving and leases with months left to pay."

besides wages i mean.

they should invent prices that go down.

Not sure I agree with the exact placement, but the right top half and bottom half, tbh

evil

I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.