I’m going to charitably ignore Jessie Buckley‘s years-ago remark about not liking cats. I can understand certain folks preferring dogs to cats because dogs are more openly emotional and affectionate, but how can anyone literally “dislike” cats? I’m a dog and a cat person….even steven, no prejudice or favoritism.
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They earned a mountain of dough on Project Hail Mary’s opening day, and you have to respect that. Pic instilled feelings of vague irritation and hard-science gloom, but that’s me. We learn via flashback that Ryan Gosling’s Ryland Grace had refused to join the rescue mission, thus leading Sandra Huller to forcibly put him aboard. What kind of a wimpy, petty-minded dweeb ducks out of a project that might save humanity from starving to death?
…and he therefore allowed Trump to spin, dodge and otherwise skate.
Why was Robert Mueller’s last name not pronounced like Ferris Bueller?
…he simply needs to stop wearing those garish eyesore outfits and start dressing like a low-key debonair fellow with a sense of traditional taste. This will send a message that he’s processed the message and is shifting gears.
In less than two weeks the poor guy has gone from being a super-gifted fellow with a huge fan following who may not win the Best Actor Oscar to “Jesus H. Christ, even the fans are turning on him!”
TC has to put out signals that say “okay, okay…I get it, I have to change my attitude so no more horrific orange suits or tennis-ball coifs…I promise to grow my hair out.”
From “U.S. Military Ramps Up to Clear Strait of Hormuz“, reported by N.Y. Times Eric Schmitt:
The U.S.S. Tripoli, an amphibious assault ship designed and built as a dedicated helicopter carrier (up to 20 helicopters) and carrying up to 1800 marines, is a few days away from a prime operational position near the Strait of Hormuz.
Chuck Norris, 86, passed yesterday (Thursday, 3.19) in Hawaii. Respect, regrets and condolences to his mostly conservative-minded fans (including Mike Huckabee), colleagues and loved ones, but I have to deliver my thoughts honestly…straight from the shoulder.
An arch-conservative and an Orange County Christian, Norris certainly became a brand in the Reagan years, and he held his own, commercially and culturally, throughout the ’90s, aughts and teens.
But in the realm of iconic big-screen tough guys of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s Norris wasn’t in the class of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, much less Clint Eastwood. He was in the class of Jason Statham, or more precisely Statham, who ascended in the aughts and became big in the 20teens, aspired to be Norris-like.
Like Norris, Statham has made his bones as the star of a string of mostly forgettable, formulaic action programmers, and yet he surpassed Norris 18 years ago when he finally made one good film — Roger Donaldson‘s The Bank Job (’08).
Norris, alas, never made a Bank Job-level film…not one. Everything he starred in was B-grade junk…crap, crap, crap….Lone Wolf McQuade, Missing in Action, Code of Silence, Invasion U.S.A., The Delta Force. Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus loved the guy, and I worked in Cannon publicity in ’87 and ’88 so don’t tell me.
If Norris had made one half-decent hardboiled film…something with edge and restraint in the vein of, say, John Flynn‘s The Outfit…I would have some respect for him. But he was always a Walmart guy.
I love Martin McDonagh‘s Wild Horse Nine….John Malkovich vs. Sam Rockwell vs. Steve Buscemi. Obviously funny as fuck.
Not to mention Mariana di Girolamo, Ailín Salas, Tom Waits and Parker Posey.
“How ’bout you shove it up your flabby little ass…how ’bout that?”
Trailers always deceive, of course, but this Searchlight release feels like a blessing. It wrapped just shy of a year ago but won’t open until 11.6…a seven and a half month wait. Why? The trailer screams “infectious misanthropic summer comedy” but they’re holding it until the peak of award season. Obviously they think they have something. I’m foreseeing a Venice Film Festival premiere.
The only thing that worries me is the fact that McDonaugh’s The Banshees of Inisherin was so laden with dark, dead-weight metaphor that it made zero sense. It was insane. The fiddle-playing Brendan Gleeson is so sick of Colin Farrell that he starts chopping his fingers off…sure thing. The village idiot with a bee-stung nose proposes marriage to Kerry Condon…right.
A Behanding in Spokane didn’t make any sense either. Funny though.
Why didn’t McDonagh give a supporting role to Chris Walken?
Except Timothee Chalamet was mostly correct.
Everyone respects the elite, elevated art forms of ballet and opera, but the vast majority of average Joes and Janes out there have never attended a performance of ballet or opera. Ever. Partly because they don’t care, but also because they can’t afford the tickets.
I attended two or three operas in the mid ’70s, and in ’76 I attended a ballet performance at the old Paris Opera. I’m very glad this happened, but I haven’t returned since.
Chalamet didn’t say “a stupid thing” — he conveyed a needlessly blunt, seemingly uncaring viewpoint. A tactical error, but he didn’t lie.
Chalamet: “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera, or, you know, things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though it’s like, no one cares about this anymore’. All respect to the ballet and opera people out there. I just lost 14 cents in viewership.”
@denofgeektv #JamieLeeCurtis has been there. The actress shared her thoughts on #TimothéeChalamet’s recent comments that “no one cares” about ballet or opera, explaining that in today’s world, it’s going to happen and he can use it as a learning experience. Tap the link in bio to read more. #sxsw #sxsw2026 #jamieleecurtisedit ♬ original sound – Den Of Geek
