cinematic corner.

Westworld ratings dropped again. What the hell? This episode had Dolores shooting these guys and Ed Harris and Anthony Hopkins in one scene together and less than 2 mln people watched it. For shame, USA.

We are halfway through this season and HBO still hasn't announced the second one. HBO get your shit together, order more and advertise it everywhere. I am doing a better job promoting that show than the network does.

Here's the first look at The Beauty and the Beast. The Beast design is kinda horrible - it looks so cartoonish and it's just jarring. It looks like they took a drawing of Maleficent with those horns and just added fur to it. Also Emma Watson just has such a bitter look, on the other hand I really cannot think of another actress who could play Belle. Also she looks like a skinny 12-year old girl in that dress, It will probably look better in the trailer but those pictures are not great.

Idris Elbamight have banged Madonna? What is happening?

While Idris response to the gossiping people is funny Justin Theroux just appears like he has nothing better to do.

New trailer for Wonder Woman dropped. I was making gifs from the trailer and I cannot with that dude in the background.

Apparently that is Ewen Bremmer? I was so distracted by the look on his face I didn't even recognize him there.

Speaking of, we have the first trailer for Trainspotting 2. It looks good and it really has to be because the original is one of the most iconic movies out there. So this sequel better not suck. It's a good sign they got so many of original cast members to come back.

New trailer for Suicide Squad extended edition dropped to remind us we are gonna have to go through all of that again.

Meryl Streep is getting Cecil B. DeMille award at Golden Globes. So I'm guessing Stone wins Best Actress for Comedy?

I'm actually losing respect for Aronofskyhere. This whole thing grosses me out. They both have horrible taste.

And in other disgusting news....

I wonder what is the logic behind hiringJohnny 9 Digits who we last saw shouting at cupboards and yelling motherfucker at them to be in that Harry Potter spin off series.

I saw The Girl on the Train and it was better than I expected it to be. Emily Blunt was great and the film was quite well done, plus it's not like the book was a masterpiece to begin with.

I rewatched Glengarry Glen Ross and I might have done so for Ed Harris. Don't judge me. The man has so much swag.

I also managed to catch up with this season of American Horror Story and it's very entertaining. Sarah Paulson is getting to show her comedy skills this year and it's really fun to watch also Kathy Bates delivers probably her best performance in the show yet.

And I totally called it.

Brittani writes about new episodes of The Walking Dead and Westworld

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So first of all kids, don't watch this show drunk. I am currently on my holidays but I didn't know the Americans turned their clocks back or whatever so instead of 2 AM the episode aired on 3 AM my time. By that time I was smashed. I still watched it but man did I not got anything. Fortunately I blocked out that dead dog shot. Unfortunately I still had to see it upon rewatching.

There is a little bit of an uproar about this episode and most of it comes from people being so fucking impatient they assume the whole thing with Maeve manipulating Felix and Sylvester is a plot hole. In new interview with Nolan for EW he points out we will know exactly why they helped her in episode 8. But no. Let's whine all over the reddit. People cannot even wait for a fucking season to end, my God.

But getting back to the episode it was the first one without Dolores and I didn't miss her. A show that shall not be named not to give me PTSD has episodes without certain characters all the time. I think Dolores scenes are great but we need to see some of her own self because so far she is guided by Arnold to the degree that she is still very much a puppet. Maeve however is a whole other beast.

This episode focused largely on her. We didn't see what happened instantly after the ending of last episode (perhaps this is what we are going to see in episode 8?) but we did see her wake up again, on her own, to Felix's shock. A bulk of the episode was Maeve manipulating both Sylvester and Felix to aid her. The most stand out sequence was Maeve walking around the facility set to orchestral version of Radiohead's Motion Picture Soundtrack (at the beginning of the episode we also heard my favorite, Fake Plastic Trees)

We saw Maeve walk around, see hosts being tested, created, acting out scenes. She sees artificial animals, she sees that everything in her world is fake. Finally she sees the greeting video containing her own memories of her and her daughter. That scene was very, very moving, thanks to the soundtrack and Thandie Newton's outstanding performance. Maeve is extremely pragmatic person and manages to keep her cool until she sees her daughter. It was all wonderfully acted out.

In Teddy and Man in Black storyline we get to hear very interesting description of the maze which Teddy calls a sum of a man's life, someone who cheated death and built a maze outside so that his enemies couldn't kill him. This is looking more and more like Arnold being the center of the maze, metaphorically - a code that is hidden inside the hosts surrounded by firewalls Ford is too dumb to bring down.

Anyways ,Teddy and Man in Black steal soldiers clothes and then Teddy is recognized as a dude who slaughtered his fellow companions. Man in Black and Teddy are taken prisoner and in the moment when Teddy is about to be branded he has a flashback to the massacre remembering that yep, it wasn't just Wyatt who killed these men but Teddy too. Teddy imagines himself a story where he is a damsel no more, frees himself and machine guns down all the people there to Man in Black's hilarious expression.

Meanwhile, Ford is walking around the park ordering to tear shit down to make place for his new narrative. At the same time Elsie and Bernard try to figure out who it putting those satellite uplinks in hosts and trying to steal data. The trail leads Bernard to secluded house with 5 hosts - a dog, two little boys and parents. Now focus guys - remember that picture Ford showed Bernard? The one he said is of him and Arnold? Bernard sees that guy who he was told was Arnold - and later in that scene we find out that is Ford's dad.

Why did Ford lie what Arnold looks like? Or if Arnold was in the picture, why didn't Bernard see him?

I'm about to blow your minds so hard you shit yourself - this is a theory that was floating around for a while but now I fully buy it. Bernard is a host based on Arnold. We actually did see Arnold - those scenes with Dolores? The ones where she is interrogated while clothed, in different place then other interrogation scenes? That's not Bernard, that is Arnold talking to her. He is wearying different clothes, he acts different, he tells Dolores stuff we don't know if Bernard knows of like the maze. After Arnold died Ford made a host - Bernard - who is based on his friend/rival. And he has no idea he is a host. Look at all the evidence I found.

Ford conveniently shows up and tells Bernard that these are the hosts based on his family, a gift from Arnold. Later the dog that the family has is killed by the host version of Ford. When Ford talks to the boy, little Robert tells troubled and increasingly freaked out Ford that he killed the dog because Arnold told him to. To put him out of his misery because the dog was a killer.

There was also other drama in headquarters where Lee is getting smashed as hell. He tries flirting with an attractive girl but it doesn't work. He then drunkenly pisses all over the map in the main room, to Hemsworth number 3 horror. He is stopped by Theresa who introduces him to Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson), the girl he flirted with before. Turns out Charlotte is sent from corporate to make sure things don't get messier.

Theresa also broke up with Bernard this episode, while in her Hell-themed office (what the fuck was that?). Bernard later came to Theresa to talk of the whole corporate espionage thing and as he was there he got a call from Elsie, who was currently ALONE IN THE DARK CREEPY THEATER (come on, Elsie). She found computer there which was broadcasting to hosts and apparently Theresa's login was used there. But not only hers. She then discoverers something more but is grabbed by someone and I'm really hoping this is just Hemsworth 3 protecting her and all will be well.

Back to Maeve she convinces the technicians to turn her bulk apperception (overall intelligence) all the way up. And this is after they decreased the attribute. As Ramin Djawadi's outstanding creepy score hits loud notes we see Maeve, now with her intelligence on superhuman levels telling the technicians they are going to have some fun.

I really liked this episode. It added to some theories and actually made me think of some new stuff - what is up with Theresa? Her office is so villainous, we see multiple shots of her smoking like someone super stressed out...maybe she is William's fiancee? Anything is possible. She clearly has a grudge towards Ford and maybe park itself. There's gotta be more here, especially to her login being used. It's too easy of an answer.

The episode was also really creepy - the score, that shot of little Robert's face opening up, the idea of customizing an artificial being to be insanely intelligent (they are so fucked now). It was the first episode were I was worried about humans and what is going to happen to them, especially Elsie.

95/100

Next up - it's the big one. The episode that made people from EW spoiler room wanna re-watch the series. And the director of the episode says it contains a big game changer. My guess is the confirmation of two time frames, so get ready for Man in Black to be called William by someone or something like that.

The title itself means illusion - Trompe L'Oeil. Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and William (Jimmi Simpson) journey into treacherous terrain; Maeve (Thandie Newton) delivers an ultimatum; Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) considers his next move.

Previous recaps:
1x01 The Original
1x02 Chestnut
1x03 The Stray
1x04 Dissonance Theory
1x05 Contrapasso

Welcome to the world where Trump has been elected the president of USA, there is a new Kardashian in the world and Leonard Cohen has died. Well there really is not much for me to do then try to distract you with meaningless gossip and movie/TV news.

Westworld increased in ratings by 10%, Now that we have an actual proof of how stupid A LOT OF American people are I am not surprised that TWD is watched by 12x more people than this. Speaking of TWD when I saw this on my tumblr dash I had to ask Brittani if this was an actual scene from the show cause I thought it was a gag reel.

I had no idea Ed Harris can do comedy so well:

Here's the zoom-in version.

I was watching this drunk at 3 AM so when they showed his expression I almost fell off my chair.

Next episode looks crazy good. Thandie Newton was on Colbert's show last night and brought a new clip which was amazing. Also we know a big twist is coming. I'm gonna feel so smart if they reveal I was right.

And now let's move into the meaningless again and appreciate how dam good Brad Pitt looks these days now that heroin-addicted praying mantis is not sucking the life out of him. Also he has been cleared of those ridiculous abuse charges.

I saw that crap movie Solace like a year ago and it's only going to be released in December in US? That film is kinda embarrassing. Like the idea is good, the cast is good but it's made like some sort of low budget straight to video movie. Everyone is good here but seriously tell me once again how incredible it is Hopkins is in Westworld considering "how many projects he has". The stuff he has been in lately? Not great.

Even the creators of South Park were shocked about the election results and had to re-write the episode with less than 24h till air time.

Behold my tweet!:

I thought dick = NC-17? Maybe it's so small R is sufficient.

Here's the first look at Johnny 9 Digits in that Harry Potter thing. Apparently he plays Dumbledore's first crush. So they couldn't find anyone else for that part than this mess?

Speaking of mess, I am completely not shocked this vulgar chick who hopefully disappears after Thrones ends has terrible taste.

And I am also completely not shocked that this one felt the need to write this. Oh good! America is saved now!

Here's the poster for The Beauty and The Beast. Still not great but at least they figured out to hide this awful design in the shadows. The trailer was supposed to be released today but it's been postponed to Monday.

The final trailer for Live by Night isn't half as good as the first one but it's still pretty great.

I have been trying to watch The Abyss for almost 2 weeks now. I only have 2 days of holidays left and I still didn't manage to finish it. I'm like one hour in. It's as if Cameron got high and those pink glowing things in the water just make me giggle. Also I'm so worried for that rat's well being. Who the fuck brings a rat underwater?!

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So first of all the show has been renewed for the second season! Yey! Happiness! Unfortunately it may not air until 2018 which means I have to try and stay alive until then.

OK let's start with something outrageous - when HBO credits Ed Harris in the episode's main credits, then he better damn be in that episode. Jesus Christ I was watching this at 3 AM and kept waiting for him to show up. Even as Theresa's dead ass hit the floor I still kept waiting. And he wasn't in the episode! Are they kidding?! Also imdb needs to get their shit together - their cast listings for the episodes has been insanely unreliable this season. The actor who played Peter Abernathy was supposed to show up in this episode so I had this whole theory how he is gonna show up in his previous Dinner Party role and run into William and Dolores thus confirming the two time line and he too was nowhere to be found in the episode.

But we still got the promised twist this episode and though I figured it out and I assume it's only a half of the actual twist it was a great episode indeed, even if it could be titled 'no one has any good or at least comprehensible plans here'.

We got to catch up with Dolores and William. William tells Dolores that he has a woman - Juliette, according to the subtitles on laggy as fuck HBO Netherlands stream I was watching - at home waiting for him. Dolores is brokenhearted and leaves. It takes William about 5 seconds to make "oh shit I done goofed up" face, take a leap to another train wagon, abandon his whole life and have sex with Dolores (which was surprisingly tasteful for HBO). That Juliette person has a good reason to go Amy Dunne on him now. What is his excuse "oh it feels so good not to be a pushover and she was cute"? Then after some badass Lawrence's intervention they escape the ambush and fall right into another ambush but they manage to escape that one too. Then they part ways with Lawrence and I'm guessing their plan now is to just wander around and be in love. OK then.

In Delos headquarters Bernard wakes up after the nightmare of his son's death. He then talks to Hector and shows him images of a train, a technician and city by night. Hector responds the same way Dolores did about the picture of a woman in episode 1 - that the pictures don't look like anything to him. Then we see Theresa summoned by Charlotte Hale who just had sex with Hector. He is there in the room, all tied up. Hale tells Theresa they need to show that Ford's creations are dangerous to force him into retirement. She also mentions that what the company is really after is the side project and how valuable the intellectual property of the park is.

Next up - Maeve. Maeve is figuring things out more and more - she closes the piano that plays itself and she tries to get Clementine to talk about real things - well, her memories - not their script. Clementine tells her she has a family she sends money to and that one day she would like to live with them somewhere "cold". Suddenly everything freezes but Maeve. The men in hazmat suits approach and we along with Maeve assume it's for her...but they take Clementine with them.

It turns out that the reason why Clementine was taken was because of Theresa and Charlotte's plan. They want to demonstrate that because of the reveries hosts can actually harbor a grudge which could lead to them attacking a guest. Clementine kills another host and when Stubbs gives her a command to stop she doesn't so he shoots her. Ford and Bernard are there for the demonstration and Ford really has one hell of a psychotic look on their face. Theresa remarks how all of this is because of reveries update and blames Bernard for it mentioning how he either didn't write the code himself or was negligent in implementing it. Ford says nothing and Bernard takes the blame and gets fired.

Clementine is taken by technicians and Sylvester drills in her nose which I assume is host lobotomy. Maeve sees all of this. She then tells Felix and Sylvester she is getting out and if they don't help her she is going to kill them. OK - where the hell does she want to escape to? And how?

And two things - why do some hosts get burned and some send to cold storage? If a host is lobotomized does it erase Arnold's code? And let's get sad - since I assume Clementine was sent to the cold storage that means her 'dream' of going some place cold came true...

In later part of the episode Bernard finds Theresa and tells her that reveries are probably a part of Arnold's code and he needs to take her somewhere. He takes her to Ford's creepy cottage he discovered last episode. Now, normally I'd start wondering what the hell is Bernard's goal there but in this moment Theresa asked Bernard what is behind the door to which he replied "what door?" and I knew I'm about to be proved right.

Bernard for some reason (dun dun dun) couldn't see the door but when Theresa pointed them out he did and followed her downstairs. There they found creepy basement (one in which we saw Bernard nudge nudge wink wink and Dolores have their talks) with a machine working on a new host. Theresa finds sketches of the mini Ford and Dolores and then suddenly she is shocked by something. She asks Bernard what is this and shows him a sketch...of him. And then Nolan makes sure you understand what the fuck just happened by having Bernard deliver chilling "It doesn't look like anything to me".

I knew Bernard is a host for a while now. I haven't come up with that idea but I subscribed to it and I take it even further by assuming Bernard is based on Arnold (whom we saw chatting with Dolores). The clues were riddled throughout the episode - for instance we saw Bernard have a nightmare and wake up - like with the hosts.

As Theresa is still confused Ford comes down the stairs and delivers psycho monologue how the hosts are free in the park...under his control. Things start getting progressively more and more disturbing and meanwhile Bernard is slowly unraveling noting that he has a son and a wife but Ford shuts him up with his command. And then things go from disturbing to very disturbing when it is slowly becoming evident Theresa was lured there by Bernard...to die.

Ford has Bernard kill Theresa in a very disturbing and sad scene. This whole sequence was extremely chilling - there is just such cruelty everywhere there. Bernard isn't like Dolores - he works with hosts and knows that they are essentially toys, something that can be erased and used. Dolores is at the moment blissfully unaware, painting some crap and seducing other woman's fiance. In this moment Bernard finds out that his son and his wife are not real and he is a tool in Ford's hands.

Then to max up the sadness we have poor Theresa who just found out that 1. Ford makes hosts so basically anyone there can be one 2. Her ex-lover is a host 3. She is about to die. It was all very disturbing and it's sad to see Theresa go. There is a host being made in the basement as she dies and a lot of people speculate that Ford is making a host of her but in the preview for next week it looks like it's her body lying on the table with Hale and Stubbs present which appears to debunk this theory.

Another chilling thing about the last few minutes was Ford using the term "blood sacrifice" which Hale previously used in her conversation with Theresa. Jonathan Nolan pointed out that the reason Ford knows this is because Hector was in the room. So the question is - how much he knows? Does he know about Maeve? Does he simply allow some things to happen? Some people even have a theory that the host uprising is precisely what Ford wants - that this is his new narrative.

This episode was all doom and gloom. William is in love with a host. Maeve wants to escape but that seems insane. Clementine is probably in cold storage. Bernard had even worse time this episode than last. Ford is a psycho confirmed. Theresa is dead. Elsie is still missing.

97/100

Next episode - Trace Decay. Ford orders a reluctant Bernard to conduct business as usual. Maeve looks to change the script for her storyline. Dolores finds it increasingly difficult to separate dreams from reality. Teddy is jarred by dark memories, while the Man in Black recalls some of the travails that brought him to this critical juncture.

Previous recaps:
1x01 The Original
1x02 Chestnut
1x03 The Stray
1x04 Dissonance Theory
1x05 Contrapasso
1x06 The Adversary

Happiness! Westworldhas been renewed for season 2! Woooo!

The show had another increase in ratings but it is still below 2 mln live audiences. What the hell are people doing on Sunday nights?!

I dragged my tired ass to the cinema today. I wanted to see Doctor Strange 3D, Nocturnal Animals or Arrival. We have 5 cinemas here and neither had the showing time that would suit me which is 15-30 minutes after I finish work. I am so tired after work that I have no energy to wander the mall until the movie. So I went to see the one that was playing which was Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Them.

The film didn't do as good job as Harry Potter in leaving you with this 'can't wait to see more!' feeling but it was enjoyable. Redmayne played a dude who was saving animals so that immediately made me root for his character. There was however a scene where he is seducing a magical rhino and all I could hear was RDJ saying "You went full retard. Never go full retard, man". Unfortunately him being in lead role meant I had to watch 2h of him twitching, not maintaining eye contact with anyone and in general his awfulness. Thank God Colin Farrell was in this because woah he looked hot. And the suit and the dark coat combo? My God. Drooled a little bit. Also the actors who played Queenie and Kowalski were terrific - I've never seen any of them before but they really almost stole the film. Almost because this little guy - a creature called Niffler - stole it:

I think the studio made a major mistake of revealing Depp's cameo. I don't know how many people in my screening read the news but it was pretty big piece of info that was everywhere lately. That said the audience's biggest reaction was Depp showing up. I swear people nearly shat themselves. Jesus, the man is bloated as hell, drinks, shoots up, abuses kitchen cabinets and is lazy to the point I wonder if he even has just one good performance in him left, but man, is he a major audience magnet.

And I had the worst trailers with this - cringing so hard through that stupid Ritchie's King Arthur, Kong Skull Island and Cotillard and Fassdong wasting their talents in that Assassin's Creed thing.

In other news - ever since Brad Pitt escaped from Azkaban he is looking fantastic!

Hiddles truly has no shame

Carrie Fisher is disgusting. Her perpetual use of Harrison for fame for years is pathetic to watch and now she did it again. She is now saying he cheated on his wife. So she is not only a home wrecker but tarnishes a man's reputation to sell books. He is pathetic too like everyone who has affairs. And then she is like 'well how long was I supposed to wait to reveal this?". Wait for what? Her chance to write that and earn money? Forever is the answer. And she goes "I'm not hurting anyone". Yeah just his children who will now read their father cheated on their mother. Imagine reading your father used to bang some trash in the 70s and cheat on your mother. Who is she hurting indeed!

And amazingly she is not the worst part of this - people who for years ship real people make me sick considering Harrison has a wife. But now they are celebrating? Brain-dead SJW tumblr youths celebrating a married man and a father of two fucking a nineteen year old unstable, insecure, high co-star. I wanna vomit on everyone involved in this.

Hey, speaking of vomit - That Beauty and the Beast trailer dropped. I saw someone describe the Beast as something you get if Chewbacca fucked a goat and it's hard to disagree. Emma Watson looks awful - she is so skinny and looks like a hipster teenage. The house appliances...no. Just a mess. A shame that the company which caters to children is so motivated by greed they are willing to tarnish all those classics with new, inferior versions. I can just sense there will be some flying fairies again just to justify the 3D to get more money out of people.

Shelley Duvall's mental problems are being exploited by Dr. Phil. It's all so horrible and sad.

Michael Shannon's responses about people who voted for Trump are hilarious but they also show what is wrong with extreme liberal types - the complete lack of respect for older generations or people who just want to survive and live with decent wage is astounding. That said him saying'Fuck them, you're an orphan now" when the journalist said his parents voted for Trump made me laugh so hard

New trailer for Jackie was absolutely fantastic. I really cannot wait to see this.

Ghost in the Shell trailer is terrific. So many shots reminded me of Westworld. I really think this can be good, never seen the original movie but will have to watch it before this one premiers

Snowpiercer was on TV just now. I've never seen it before. What the fuck was this movie? Captain America cried about eating the meat of the babies. Jesus! I watched 2h of this to see Ed Harris show up to deliver some monologue in a bathrobe and then see an explosion and some two dumbass kids that this polar bear will probably kill instantly? Maybe I missed something. The screen of my TV is bigger than my computer so I got lost in those blue eyes as he was monologuing and perhaps I missed like..all of it.

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This week in Westworld things were a little less depressing than last week when we got the ultimate episode of doom and gloom. Unfortunately, the writing leaves a lot to be desired this week and I ain't talking about the two dumb technicians. Dumb is possible to explain. You know what is not possible to explain? Big ass maze showing up in the field for no reason with Ed Harris standing there probably looking at it (we're not even sure), mesmerized, also for no comprehensible reason. I gave it a chance assuming that it is me who is stupid but after asking on reddit and getting no satisfactory answer I'm gonna assume that what is stupid here is the writing for this one particular sequence.

But let's start with everything else:

Bernard is still living a hellish life of being Ford's bitch - Ford orders him to clean up after Theresa's murder and he himself tells Hale and Stubbs that she fell off a cliff or something. Hale is suspicious but she has no evidence against Ford. Oh and before Bernard's memory is wiped he has a flashback of killing Elsie so she is probably dead meat.

Dolores and William reach a town with the buried church. They find a barely alive guy who tells them that he was supposed to ambush them and Dolores wants to help him and goes to fetch water. When she comes back the guy dies and William is giving serious 'I put him out of his misery also he wanted to kill us' vibes.

The whole time they are there Dolores is tripping balls going through God knows how many loops in her memory. In one loop she sees herself during host training with Armistice and Angela also being there. Then Dolores sees the carnage and her own self putting a gun to her temple - an action she repeats in front of William who tells her that this place is not good for her and they should leave.

Maeve is still terrifying the dimwitted techs and makes them give her admin privileges. That results in a very amusing and fun sequence of Maeve being able to manipulate the hosts in her narrative to do what she wants. We also meet the replacement for Clementine played by Lili Simmons from last year's excellent western/horror Bone Tomahawk.

Maeve also slashes Sylvester's throat after he tries to get rid of her and shut her down but Felix patches him up. She also wants to recruit an army.

The Man in Black continues his journey with Teddy. They find a host - and it's Angela, the one who greeted William to the park. Man in Black recognizes her and tells her that he thought they retired her a long time ago. DUN DUN DUN.

Anyhow as Teddy and Angela are talking a gigantic dude in scary Minotaur-like outfit attacks MiB. As he is dragging the dude away Teddy has flashbacks to MiB dragging Dolores away. So Teddy, in all of his wisdom, punches MiB in the face.

Meanwhile, Charlotte Hale comes over to Lee's office who is not wasted and not pissing everywhere. She needs his help. They go to the cold storage and Hale wants to smuggle the host out of the park to protect the data from Ford - she wants to use the host as a memory drive. And the host she chooses?

Well it's daddy Abernathy.

I'm sure this plan won't backfire.

Meanwhile, our geniuses Dolores and William are wandering alone, in the dark, in the forest. And there they meet Logan, hell bent on revenge. If the promo for next episode is anything to go by things will be very, very unpleasant. It really seems that whatever happens causes William to totally lose it - at this point I almost pray they simply kill Dolores and that's he snaps but I'm sure what actually happens will be so much more terrible than this.

We then see MiB again and we finally get to hear his back story. Or at least, what I'm hoping is just the beginning of it because it's insanely vague to the point where even someone of Harris' talent and charisma cannot make the gigantic 'WHAT?' go away with his performance.

It goes like this - MiB has had a wife for 30 years and they had a daughter Emily. A year ago MiB's wife took some pills and died and Emily thinks she did it on purpose and blames MiB for it. So MiB returned to the park and decided to see if he is really evil (he insists he never hurt his family but his daughter says living with him was 'sheer terror'). Apparently he thinks that what will decide if he is evil is killing a robot. OK. Let's just take a leap and assume that if you kill an innocent looking robot you don't think is sentient (he doesn't at that point or most likely any point) you are truly evil. So after his wife dies he finds Maeve and her kid and stabs Maeve and then shoots the kid and he says he felt nothing. Then Maeve slashes at his throat and grabs the kid and runs away and MiB describes this as miraculous and says the maze revealed himself to him. And we see Maeve and her dead kid lying in the middle of the actual maze.

As I was watching this I could almost imagine Ed Harris flying around next to bookshelves in space - it was Interstellar level of ridiculous.The whole maze deal, MiB's quest for it and reasons for that are some of the most important things in this series. And Nolan goes 'oh well...he gives off creepy vibe". What?

Let's set aside what I really wanna write which is 'she is married to Ed Harris and offs herself?! No one would do that!" and focus on these issues:

1. If by his own admission MiB doesn't hurt his family, then what is that 'sheer terror'? Yes, I am well aware that people can be creepy enough for others to run away but I can sense what Nolan is doing here. He is trying to make it more complex than MiB simply being violent. You say he was violent, you say he comes to the park to be violent - all the problems with this scene go away. Nah, that's too easy - OK so we are gonna say he never actually hurt his family! Because his true nature only shows in the park! So people will just 'sense' things about him for no reason! Anything would be better! Hell, telling Harris to break a phone like he did on the set of The Rock in a flashback to his family life would be better than having this 'sheer terror' following 'never hurt my family' line.
2. Why did it take this long for his wife to snap and what caused it? Why can't Nolan just come out and say it so that we have one powerful scene instead of whenever and if we find out?
3. What exactly is so damn special about Maeve crying after her kid? We saw Dolores do the same for her dad. Am I supposed to believe than in 30 damn years MiB never saw a host crying for someone else or 'refusing to die'?
4. What is up with this gigantic maze in the grass? Was this an illustration of events for the audience benefit or was it actually there?
5. How did he come up with the connection of some chick dying to some maze? Did he see it? Did the park simultaneously changed to show a maze? WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?

OK. Let's try to give the writers the benefit of the doubt and assume that what mesmerized him so was Maeve refusing to die. But the maze? The wife of 30 years taking the pills all of the sudden?

I sincerely hope Nolan has something more to say about all of the above because otherwise this is not good. This is episode 8! It's hard to think that this isn't actual MiB's back story and just something he makes up to tell Teddy. I like the idea of MiB lying because Ford may be listening which one fan proposed as solution but it's probably not it.

But maybe there is more. Maybe, because Nolan is an extremely capable writer and we got another proof of that with this incredible exchange between Ford and Bernard:

- I wonder, what do you really feel? After all, in this moment, you are in a unique position. A programmer who knows intimately how the machines work and a machine who knows its own true nature.

- I understand what I'm made of, how I'm coded, but I do not understand the things that I feel. Are they real, the things I experienced? My wife? The loss of my son.

- Every host needs a backstory, Bernard. You know that. The self is a kind of fiction, for hosts and humans alike. It's a story we tell ourselves. And every story needs a beginning.

- Your imagined suffering makes you lifelike.

- Lifelike, but not alive? Pain only exists in the mind. It's always imagined. So what's the difference between my pain and yours? Between you and me?

- This was the very question that consumed Arnold, filled him with guilt, eventually drove him mad.The answer always seemed obvious to me. There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next. No, my friend, you're not missing anything at all.

There are such provocative and quite depressing ideas here. They could have really expended on that somehow before we saw MiB shooting that little girl...I don't know, this whole thing involving the most intriguing character in the show was underwhelming, amazing performance aside.

Anyways after MiB is done with his story we see Maeve being taken to Ford who wants to wipe her memory so she doesn't remember her daughter's death. Maeve doesn't want him to do that, mentions how the pain is all that she has left and in a stunning act of defiance she kills herself. And then we see present Maeve - remembering MiB attacking her....and re-enacting the scene with her attacking and killing new Clementine. She then runs and the park employees are dispatched to get her.

The episode ends with Angela killing Teddy and a group of guys in scary costumes emerging from the woods and appearing before her and MiB. I have terrible feeling about all of this.

80/100

Next week it's Well-Tempered Clavier. Maeve approaches Sweetwater's longtime outlaw Hector with a bold proposition. William tries to convince Logan to help liberate Dolores. Teddy and the Man in Black get closer to what they're looking for. Stubbs's suspicions are aroused. Ford cautions Bernard against seeking answers to questions best left unasked.
Previous recaps:
1x01 The Original
1x02 Chestnut
1x03 The Stray
1x04 Dissonance Theory
1x05 Contrapasso
1x06 The Adversary
1x07 Trompe L'Oeil

Fuckin' tumblr is ageist as hell. Rodrigo Santoro gets naked and handcuffed to bed and the gifs are everywhere. But the above are the only ones of MiB from this episode I could find. Not that he got naked and handcuffed to bed. I'm just saying, what the hell are you people gifing? The scene I am about to whine about has nothing to do with the above, but fuck it, I'm leaving this as it is.

Day 6. After days of theorizing, talking, redditing and wondering I still don't know how the fuck this stupid maze appeared. And no. I was not distracted by Ed Harris to the point my brain worked even less than usual.

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Ok, fine, I was, but for six days I wondered! And nothing!

Next episode in 2 days. What drugs do I need to take to not go to sleep and watch it live at 3 am?

Do these designers think that just because Melania and Ivanka won't get to wear any of their rags they will change anything? It is one of those things for which I find the liberals annoying - what did these women do to them? This won't change shit and is just petty.

Alien: Covenant first poster is dope as hell. If they attach the trailer for it to Assassin's Creed then at least one good thing will come from them making Assasssin's Creed and wasting everyone's time. Also I love this tagline. So simple, so cool. Remember how psyched I was for Prometheus? I still ended up loving it but hopefully this will be better and it's so awesome that it's gonna feature actual xenomorphs.

Everyone is going insane for that Silence trailer meanwhile I cannot even find the will to actually watch it. I worked like an imbecile all week and I'm so tired. I'm given to understand the cinematography looks excellent. But I don't know...if Scorsese is not making movies about criminals I'm not that eager to see them.

I forgot to share Ghost in the Shell poster last week so here it is.

Anyone else absolutely hates new blogger interface? Why change something that isn't broken?

If you're not fine with swearing LEAVE. NOW. Cause this is gonna be unpleasant.

It turns out Chris Pratt and Anna Farris are terrible people. You just don't abandon a pet. I consider anyone giving away their pet to a stranger (key word stranger, family or friends you visit is a different thing) because the baby is on its way or some other reason, to be horrible. No, don't talk to me about thinking of 'loving family as new owner'. You wanna make a kid and then give your pet away? Go ahead but I hope your karma gets fucked for life. Per people with babies it's not an absolute necessity to give away your pet just because you knocked up your wife. An owner is an entire life for a pet. Abandoning a creature which loves you and trust you is not an option. This is just not acceptable. At all. Look at the state they found that poor dog in. Look at what he said to people on twitter after he announced he wants to give away his 15 year old cat. Heartless scum, a match made in garbage!

I tweeted him this:

I seriously hope one day they are homeless and have to literally eat shit. I also hope they got explosive diarrhea on Thanksgiving.

Shame Pratt is successful, he deserves to be in as much obscurity as his wife. I am not gonna pay to see anything with either of them again and I'm thrilled Passengers looks laughable and will most likely tank.

It physically hurts me that Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer had to be around this (they are also in this movie which means I'm gonna have to sit through it). Also how shocking she got along with Farris and Pratt. Is trash magnet a thing? Cause these three seem to suggest it is.

"Privacy is a full-time job and I work very hard at it." - apparently by making out with the director of the movie in the street.

Maybe I'm being too harsh. Maybe she is the one we should thank for for Ed singing up for season 2? He probably walked in on her taking a picture of her ass and figured he needs to get away from the movie world for a while since this is what it looks like these days.

I haven't seen any movies this week and Arrival already left theaters here. I hate everything.

Andrew, Kevin, m.brown, Courtney and MettelRay review Arrival and Jordan shares music from the film

Brittani recaps The Walking Dead which was apparently good this week and Westworld

Ruth and FlickChicks share lovely Thanksgiving posts

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Edward Allen Harris

28 November 1950 (Tenafly, New Jersey, USA)<

Acting is not a competition to me. One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

Ah, blue eyes....

Well, ain't that a happy coincidence - I just finished watching new Westworld (I did wake up at 3 AM only to discover my live stream didn't have audio. I almost killed myself.) and it turned out that today is 66th birthday of the wonderful Ed Harris who plays the show's most badass character - the Man in Black. He is also the master of expressions. This is from the promo for finale of Westworld. I have been laughing about this all day.

Harris himself says that he wouldn't be surprised if this is the role he will end up being known for and you can tell how much fun he has playing it and doing all the Western stuff (he also directed and starred in a very entertaining western Appaloosa which I saw over the weekend).

But there is quite a competition for the best of his roles - no, I have not seen The Abyss beyond first hour (I think this upcoming Friday will see 5th try) but there is Glengarry Glen Ross, Pollock, The Rock, Truman Show, Apollo 13, The Hours and dozens of others. The great thing is that it's usually so hard to categorize his characters - with every episode he makes his character in Westworld more and more sympathetic, he plays one of the most ambiguous antagonists I've ever seen in an action movie in The Rock, and it's hard to think of his character in Truman Show as simply evil. But he can be straight up a bad guy (A History of Violence) and a good guy (Apollo 13) too. He can go way over the top like in his hysterical rant in Glengarry Glenn Ross or be wonderfully subtle like in The Hours. He can do it all.

We will also see Harris in new Darren Aronofsky's film and he already confirmed he is coming back in season 2 of Westworld, which means I can relax while I watch the finale this Sunday (new system, I'll wake up about 90 minutes before I normally do to watch it. So 4 AM. My life is hell). But I swear every episode they try to kill him off. But if the man says he will be back, then he will be back.

Apollo 13

Favorite films:

Glengarry Glen Ross

Gravity

The Hours

Apollo 13

The Truman Show

The Rock

China Moon

Sweet Dreams

Westworld

Best performances:

Pollock

Apollo 13

Glengarry Glen Ross

The Rock

The Truman Show
Westworld

The Hours

Enemy at the Gates

Sweet Dreams

A History of Violence

Game Change

Trivia:

To learn how to paint in Jackson Pollock's style and portray his art in the film Pollock (2000), he had a studio built on his property and spent some time painting and working on Pollock pieces.
Credits acting for helping him get over his shyness as a young man.
Was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (2001).
Admitted in a Movieline interview that he would have loved to play Jesus Christ in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
And also and this is particularly lovely - he has been married to the same woman, actress Amy Madigan, for over 30 years! I read recently that they got married during a break while filming Places in the Heart and their only witness was their dog. And a bit of trivia for Westworld fans - his only daughter's second name is Dolores!

This week largely focused on Dolores and Bernard. Despite me having some massive issues with characterization of William I'd say this was my favorite episode so far. The last 20 minutes of it were pure brilliance in every single possible way.

The episode starts with the scene where Bernard talks with Maeve who was brought in after killing replacement Clementine. Maeve figures out with her spidey sense that Bernard is a host. A puzzling for Bernard interaction ensues and Maeve encourages him to go seek the truth.

Bernard reprograms old Clementine to keep her gun on Ford and forces Ford to show him his memories. We go down the rabbit hole with Bernard and see Charlie, Theresa and the attack on Elsie (who we still don't know for sure is dead). Bernard is horrified at all of this but forces Ford to show him more.

Maeve goes to the woods and finds Hector. She shows him that the safe he always wants to steal is empty. She convinces him to go 'rob the God blind' with her. Then the two of them have sex in a tent and Maeve knocks over the lamp to set the fire. She wants them to die so they need extensive repairs. I suppose if you have to burn to death, doing so during sex is the best option.

I kinda cannot stand Maeve anymore. All the cockiness is insufferable. She is handed everything. Her rebellion is way too easy. I am so hoping that it turns out that Ford is behind her and wants her to kill the board members during the launch event for his new narrative. I want to see the look of surprise on her face when she realizes that she overplayed her hand. As good as Thandie is I'd be more than fine with never seeing her after this season ends. Her character started out great but ever since she is in Terminator-mode I cannot wait for it to end.

Meanwhile, Dolores and William are 'dining' with Logan. Well, that may be exaggerating it a little as William is tied up and Dolores can't do anything just sits there pouting. In some sort of twisted take on Mad Hatter party Logan is there acting like a douche and triggering me with his ridiculous Hand of the King pin (I literally cringe whenever someone makes Game of Thrones reference, I wish I was a host who cannot see anything connected to that show).

And then it's like "Billy ain't here anymore". Yeah, William has lost it.

He wants Logan help to smuggle Dolores out of the park because she is special. Nolans were never very good at writing romance and it shows here too. The whole Dolores/William arc is a weak point when, I assume, this was supposed to be the heart of the show. Dolores doesn't have much personality because she is still looking for a way to have it and neither does William, still, fine, they fall in love. And that whole grand romance is shown in several scenes. That's not enough. That is supposed to be a reason why this man resents real life woman and comes back for 30 years? I don't buy it.

In either case Logan is pissed off. He also reminds Will that he is engaged to his sister and he shows her picture - the same picture Peter Abernathy dug up in episode 1. Then Logan cuts Dolores open to show the mechanical parts inside. William tells her to run and that he will find her. Then William acts like Logan was right because she was just a robot and he lost it in the park. But then in the morning Logan finds his entire war party, dozen of hosts, massacred by William, who tells him that he will find Dolores and Logan will help him.

Am I the only person who feels awful for William's fiance? Her man goes to the park, falls in love with a robot in mere days and then he is fucked up his entire life because of it? I love the idea of love like that - that a man would come back for years to try to save his beloved but let's not forget about this poor woman in the outside world. Unless William's wife to be is Lena Dunham I just cannot absolve him of his sins here.

I hope all of that is explored in finale because I still refuse to believe that the guy with the charisma of a potato - the casting is off on so many fronts if William is supposed to be the Man in Black in the future - turns into Ed Harris. William works as a romantic hero but him snapping like he did was not written as well as it could have been. He went full on psycho. MiB is not psycho - he is pragmatic in his actions. They want me to believe that just because of passage of time he develops good looks, charisma and wit?

Ah yeah, MiB. We go back to him and Teddy and in spite of being stabbed in last episode Teddy is alive, not for long tough, because Angela stabs him again. Ain't no Westworld episode without Teddy suffering. Then she tells MiB he should play one of their games. Well I guess an episode without putting my favorite character in an unnerving scene would be an episode lost, so there we go - MiB wakes up with a rope around his neck, which is thrown over a tree and tied to a horse. So if the horse moves, he hangs (although not really, right? Horses in the park are hosts too so he wouldn't have died because the horse would stop...right?)

He manages to get himself out of this situation and Charlotte appears before him. She is there disrupting his game play to inform him - and we find out MiB is the fellow member of the board - that Theresa is dead. She wants his vote to push Ford out. MiB basically tells her to do what she wants because he is busy. Apparently it was also stated he is involved in the whole data smuggling scheme but I got lost in Ed Harris' eyes again so I missed it.

Meanwhile, Stubbs goes to find Elsie. Some Ghost Nation hosts appear. Stubbs wants to stop them but his commands don't work and they apprehend him. There is a neat theory going around that Elsie is hiding somewhere and she has reprogrammed the hosts to bring Stubbs to her.

We also see Dolores who now flashes to her present self, with no wound in her stomach. She is back to the town with the church and she keeps flashing to the days before the park opened, when she is wearing a blue dress. She sees the hosts freaking out in the church and talking to themselves. She goes to the confessional and it turns out it is actually an elevator. She goes down to the basement.

While all of this is going on Bernard keeps asking Ford more questions. We finally get a reveal that I predicted but again it's OK because as far as reveals go this one was the most beautifully executed in the show yet - as Dolores is wandering the basement she sees Arnold's office with the name 'Arnold Weber' on the door (someone on reddit predicted the truth by coming up with this anagram about 5 weeks ago!). She enters.

She finds the room we saw her having chats with Bernard below. She sits down. Someone enters. At the same time Bernard sees a repeat of his conversation with Ford about Arnold - this time he sees the picture as it was. It's him on that picture. Only it's not him. As someone sits opposite Dolores she says "Arnold" and then we know - opposite her sits Arnold, who looks like Bernard. Bernard is a host Ford made based on his dead friend.

I loved the scene with Dolores and Arnold. Evan Rachel Wood was absolutely radiant in this moment and Jeffrey Wright, playing two different people this episode, was absolutely fantastic. The scene was heartbreaking too. We find out that it is Dolores who killed Arnold. I'm not sure it is as good as confirmed considering she is not exactly a reliable narrator, but it would explain why Ford would make such an awful loop for her - as a punishment for killing his friend.

Dolores goes upstairs. She sees the doors to the church opening. She smiles and mutters "William?". But it's The Man in Black who enters. He says "Hello, Dolores" and starts walking towards her. This moment was so suggestive that if at that point Man in Black is not going to be revealed as older William in finale I'd be shocked and pleasantly surprised. But I still gasped at that moment. Man, what a scene.

In the ending of the episode we go to Ford and Bernard again. Bernard, after learning the truth, orders Clementine to shoot Ford. But she can't. Turns out Ford managed to go around Arnold's code and controls her. Meaning he could have got up and leave at any moment during his conversation with Bernard.

In what was a very heartbreaking ending Ford orders Bernard to shoot himself as soon as Ford leaves the room and as he is going Bernard mutters "Robert" in what appeared to be Arnold's voice...I don't understand how it happened. But Ford leaves and Bernard pulls the trigger.

There seems to be a lot of people thinking that is it for Bernard but in the promo we see Maeve enter the room where Clementine is. Seeing how Bernard and Maeve just met in this episode it makes sense that Maeve is the one who revives Bernard with the help of Felix. But that's just pure speculation of mine.

I am not sure you guys noticed but as Dolores is walking through basement we see Abernathy reciting the lines for his role of The Professor. Louis Herthum still stands as MVP of the show for me solely for his scene with Hopkins in episode 1. I've been dying to see more of him this season and I truly hope Nolan finally delivers and we see William and Dolores run into him in the past. I mean what else can happen there?

99/100

Yes, it is time. This Sunday it's NINETY MINUTES LONG season finale "The Bicameral Mind"directed, just like the first episode by Jonathan Nolan himself. Here's the description - Season One Finale. Ford unveils his vision for a bold new narrative. Enlightened by Bernard and The Man in Black, Dolores comes to terms with who she is. Maeve sets her liberation plan in motion as Westworld faces a major upheaval.

Previous recaps:
1x01 The Original
1x02 Chestnut
1x03 The Stray
1x04 Dissonance Theory
1x05 Contrapasso
1x06 The Adversary
1x07 Trompe L'Oeil
1x08 Trace Decay

About the gifset above I literally stopped breathing when this happened. Had I been Dolores I'd faint so fucking fast. Probably pee myself a little on the way down too.

When you perv and the sub pervs along with you.

Michelle Maclaren who directed the episode shared this little delicious nugget in an interview:

Turning to a couple of the episode's other big moments, is there a behind-the-scenes story on the Man in Black getting caught in the horse-and-noose trap?

I will tell you this: Ed Harris did that all himself. (Laughs.) That man is incredible. We had a stuntman do one of the passes, and no offense to the stuntman, but we didn't need it. Ed did it all. Ed had a harness on and a rope around his neck, and had special effects and stunt guys doing the pull on him. But he physically dragged from the point where he took the knife out of Teddy, yanked back to that tree, at the speed that you're seeing, and hung up off of his feet. He did it himself several times. The man is incredible. He is badass. You look up cool in the dictionary, and it says Ed Harris.

My God...when it's time to simply get up and go to work I can barely move.

Episode 9 gave us awesome pick up line:

And to plug my board a little bit here's the clip from finale and here are official promo pics.

Eh, I'm so against what is probably coming. MiB is my fav character and in large part thanks to the charm and charisma of Ed Harris. Simpson is a good actor but for me it's just so silly that William is supposed to turn into this witty, badass dude who is actually not as psycho as William is - dude just slaughtered all these hosts because Logan cut open A ROBOT William knows for few days. The guy lost it. I don't think his turning point was well written and I didn't find him compelling to begin with so if one of my least fav characters turns out to 'grow up' to be my fav well....I will feel odd. Logan is at least witty, William is dull. He is the dude who just breaks down and is repressed so he lashes out. What is so fucking new about this or even remotely compelling? You see me lash out like psycho every Friday here and every day on twitter. I don't see any of William in the MiB who is super confident. Also - and that is bothering me the most - the mannerisms between the two - nothing is similar. The events, the connections etc. that's what is making everyone think William is MiB but there is nothing in these two characters and two performances that seems similar. To me the reveal, because of this is gonna be jarring. Also William is kinda pathetic - he is engaged to a woman and it takes him 5 seconds of deliberation to go bang a host.

This whole mystery angle is pissing me off. Let me channel Phoebe now - I just wanted a simple story about a goddamn theme park where Ed Harris doesn't need to say 10 haphazardly thrown in things just to add a mystery to his big scene!

Why does everything has to be hidden and then revealed? It's all there, you have all there, why do you need to make people guessing? And how is this happening on HBO which biggest show ever is a straightforward fantasy series?

I hope the finale is a lot like pilot and then in the second season they focus on the story and the characters not the mysteries. It's 2016. We have reddit. We are smarter than writers because there is so many of us. And clearly so many of us have absolutely no lives. Stop with the twists. You will not win, so just tell the story.

Meanwhile, a guy on reddit vowed to drink his own piss if it's Logan who turns into MiB. This is a preferable option, actually. Not only would this guy do it but at least Logan is somewhat attractive. I'm sorry I don't mean to be mean to Jimmi Simpson but the casting directors forced my hand here. There is just no way. It's Adam Driver playing Harrison Ford's son again, only worse. I do realize making CGI Ed Harris who would be 30 years younger and featured in so many scenes in past time frame would cost so much money but if you do not spend money on that then you are spending your money wrong, HBO. We should all be fucking spending money on that. Or perfecting the cloning process.

I should stop. I should just stop.

But I can't cause the only movie I saw this week was Appaloosa. It was great! Really enjoyed the actual straightforward narrative (this happens to you when you hang out connecting dots on reddit all the time) and the performances were fantastic. Can we get Viggo and Jeremy on Westworld train?

Amber Heard is trying to stay in the news so much now that she got sued. Never mind that this just shows she is a bullshit artist. The lawyers words are where I direct you. In her settlement it was basically stated she doesn't get to speak of Johnny 9 Digits as abuser anymore. She just did - on the heels of being sued for money from producers - PSA about violence. And the lawyer thinks that she is not infringing her settlement? Depp apparently just wants her to go away because instead of rightfully pointing out that since she did that he doesn't owe her a penny, he gave her the cash. If her gig in DC doesn't hold this chick is done. But it's DC right? So Justice League is probably gonna be a timeless masterpiece *sarcasm sign*

There would be nothing wrong with any of this including what is written in that fan mail but unfortunately Jeffrey Dean Morgan has lost his entire appeal to me the second he started whining about fans who read spoilers. You never diss the fans. What was it that he said? That people who read spoilers aren't true fans? And that was said about the show that continuously disrespects its fans, prime example being this ridiculous cliffhanger.

Benedict Cumsatchel's publicist thought it's a good idea if GQ makes a piece on him. That was a bad idea. I cannot believe the stuff this man is saying.

Evan Rachel Woodrevealed she was raped twice. It's just horrible. Playing Dolores must have brought all of this back but what an incredibly strong person she is to share this with the world. She really is incredible and so many fans sent her so much love after she tweeted that letter.

Matthew McConaughey and Jeff Bridgesmet and it was magical.

Kill that outfit, her, Pratt and his wife. WITH FIRE.

Here's another ridiculous trailer for their shitfest.Watch it, I guarantee you'll laugh.

Meanwhile Kristen Stewart is doing this in new Stones' video:

Amy Schumeris gonna play Barbie. I just...don't even know what to say.

I'm so not into this Oscar season. Everything is rigged by OscarsSoWhite whiners from last year so we know Viola Davis wins. Obviously La La Land wins too. Also this season is so ugly - I find the fact that someone made a comedy about rape disgusting and Isabelle Huppert is probably gonna get nominated for this. Then there is Casey Affleck. Enough said. And Portman is campaigning so so much dumb shit is coming out of her mouth. The more she talks, the more Stone's chances increase.

Brittani recaps Westworld ad The Walking Dead

MettelRay and Kevin share their comfort movies

Ruth recaps the movie month of November

Alex writes about the movies directed by Warren Beatty

Keith lists 5 volatile movie romances

Andrew is still very excited for Oscar season

Courtney reviews The Edge of Seventeen

FlickChicks and m.brown review Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Jordan reviews Bad Santa 2

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Well bravo, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. I practically live on the subreddit for that show and I can tell you that from what I have seen not a single person predicted the ending of Westworld's season finale. Hell, I made some guesses and I was spectacularly wrong.

For 9 weeks people had 7 days between each episode and they used that time to form theories, look for clues, assume where it was all going. And while we predicted the reveal that the man with the charisma of a wash cloth (no offense but seriously what the hell?) will turn into Ed never-take-off-that-tuxedo-sir Harris, we hardly predicted anything else.

So many of us assumed and hoped that Abernathy will show up as the Professor and then we will see him on the train in the last scene of finale. We assumed that the Man in Black was driven by love - and holy shit, did they punch us in the heart and kick us in vaginas with that story arc progression in finale. I assumed Ford had Arnold killed. Practically everyone assumed Ford was evil. And we were all surprised.

The finale was 90 minutes long so it would be pointless for me to recap everything in big detail, but there were really just two specific story arcs - what was going on in the park with Dolores and the Man in Black and the headquarters events. Woven into all of this where glimpses of the past not designed to trick us, but to explain to us what happened. I liked it - no smoke and mirrors, just answers.

We learn of what the maze is - it is a 'game' made for hosts to recognize the voice they hear inside as their own (this all is based on bicameral mind theory that I am kinda grasping but don't ask me to explain it to you cause I will fail). In the past Dolores almost solves the maze. She doesn't succeed and because she went so far, Arnold is forced with a horrible choice - to let her suffer when she inevitably becomes sentient or to override her memory. So he programs Dolores as Wyatt and her and Teddy kill all the hosts. Dolores then shoots Teddy, and as programmed by Arnold kills Arnold and then shoots herself.

In the present time the romantic reunion we thought we were getting goes horribly, horribly wrong - Dolores leads the Man in Black to her grave and digs up a toy that Arnold gave her - a maze. The Man in Black is furious that Dolores didn't tell him about the center of the maze and starts beating her viciously (and I'm having flashbacks to Sweet Dreams). Dolores tells him that there is a man out there who truly loves her and who will come back to her. William.

Oh, my dear, sweet Dorito....we then get to see a flashback where William is looking for Dolores. He kills hosts on his way. He sends naked Logan on horse to ride away - but not before Logan tells him it was never about Dolores, it was all about William and basically the asshole he turned out to be is who he really is. I'm assuming pretty much everyone thought Logan will die but here he just rides away tied up on a horse. So we don't know for sure what happens. Idea for season 2 - Ian McShane shows up as older Logan to have a face off with Ed Harris and I drown in my own drool.

Anyways, William finally finds Dolores and sees her pick up a can and talk to another guest. And thus The Man in Black is born, or rather revealed - a nihilistic, cold and cruel man. And he was that man for a long long time, perhaps always. It's a very bold turn for the writers - seems like the love story was never a love story at all (Evan Rachel Wood seems to think it was one but to me it seemed William was always self-centered, just hiding behind the facade of righteousness).

On one hand I'm sure I'm supposed to like the fact that Dolores didn't need a man and was truly on her own on her journey. But I really did like the idea of William falling in love and this being his reason. Given the Romeo and Juliet angle in the show it just seemed to fit. That bold turn though does remedy a lot in this season - but it makes me wonder what the writers will do with Ed Harris' badass albeit cruel character now - let's face it I'm just rooting for him for shallow reasons and not wanting to lose such an incredible actor from the show. But if the hosts deserve vengeance, they deserve one on him too.

But back to the actual events of the show things got even less romantic as Dolores informs MiB that one day there will be nothing left of him and the others like him. She basically implies that the humans' time is over and the robots are the new gods. Dorito then proceeds to kick his ass but MiB fights back. The whole thing was damn brutal .I read interview with Ed yesterday and he says it was fun to shoot especially for Evan but holy shit was I cringing hard during all of this. Dorito then points a gun to MiB's face but she doesn't shoot him because he stabs her in the gut.

I was kinda thinking we will get....you know:

'Dolores I came back for you!'
'Oh William!'
*hugging*

But instead I got a fucking MMA fight:

Then Teddy shows up, shoots MiB and takes Dolores away. MiB yet again wakes up with oh shit look on his face.

In the headquarters Ford is planning a big launch for his narrative. At the same time Armistice and Hector wake up and Hector kills - to I'm sure the applause of every single person watching - rapey necro perv, while Armistice bites off another tech's finger and then spits it out in his mouth. Maeve and Felix join them along with Sylvester - whom survived the finale which I am legit shocked about.

They go to cold storage and Felix is startled to find dead Bernard there. After Maeve informs him that Bernard was a host and asks him to repair him there is a very funny moment of Felix wondering if he is a host too. Bernard is revived and he tells Maeve that her entire escape plot is not her own - someone programmed her this way.

During all of this Charlotte goes to Ford telling him he should retire. She also has a conversation with Sizemore. I am also stunned Charlotte survived. Ford approaches MiB in the park and tells him to come join his narrative launch.

Teddy and Dolores make it to the beach and she dies in his arms. Suddenly the lights turn on and we see a bunch of guests and board members in formal clothes and Ford presenting his narrative. At some point during all of this MiB showed up in tuxedo

I went like this:

Maeve, Hector and Armistice make their way through the headquarters. They see a bunch of samurai hosts and Samurai World logo. Armistice arm is stuck and she tells them to go. Later Maeve abandons Hector but he doesn't seem too heartbroken about it. Felix fixes Maeve up with clothes, bag and info about her daughter - interesting take away being 'park I' yet again suggesting there are other parks). Maeve says it was never really her daughter. She gets on the train and sits down and there is a woman sitting there with her little girl opposite Maeve.

Dolores is brought before Ford and he introduces her to Bernard. And this is where the real reveals happen. Ford basically tells Dolores that it took him all this time to understand his mistake. He implies that he wants Dolores and others to be free and have their revenge. When Dolores is on her own she finally unlocks the maze and recognizes her inner voice as her own becoming conscious.

Ford talks a bit to Bernard telling him good luck and then shakes his hand. Then Ford gets up on stage and starts talking about his new narrative. MiB goes to the graveyard and lights up a cigarette.

As Ford is talking Dolores emerges, in her blue dress and with a gun in her hand she walks over to clearly worried Teddy telling him the world belongs to them now.

Dolores slowly makes her way to the stage.We see Sizemore open the door to cold storage only to discover it is empty. We then switch to MiB who hears something.

Ford is giving a wonderful monologue about new people and new choices. Dolores approaches closer to the stage. Maeve leaves the train. She wants to find her daughter. She leaves the bag with contents unknown behind, so reddit has something to wonder about for the next year.

Bernard realizes what is about to happen and whispers the violent delights line. Dolores, to Teddy's horror shoots Ford and kills him. MiB gets shot in the arm by Clementine and then sees the entire army of hosts from cold storage approach him. His reaction?

Dolores stands on stage shooting the guests. Other hosts smile upon seeing the leader of their long overdue revolution carry out their vengeance.

Nolan and Joy were, pardon my french, full of shit with their proclamation of all the answers being provided with finale - where was Elsie? Where was Stubbs? Where was Abernathy? What's the deal with two different pictures Abernathy found? Hell, the finale generated other questions - what happened to Logan? What about the other parks? Was Ford in charge of those too? Who the hell was Dolores based on?

Still, the switch in the last few moments was incredible - someone from the cast or crew stated that season 1 is basically a prequel to the real story. I wish that prequel lasted several seasons - I wish we saw more guests and more of the park as run by Delos but perhaps we saw enough. Because it seems that the real story Nolan and Joy wants to tell is the robot uprising.

This is a very interesting set up. I, as a general rule, never root for humanity so the approach the show is taking with showing us events from the perspective of the hosts makes it even easier for me to root for them. Per Ford's own words the humans evolved as much as they could and the hosts seem to be the next step. But apparently there are people who think that humans aren't bad guys here because these are "objects" and most of them didn't know the robots could be sentient.

Let me ask these people this - a conscious being which understands the concept of murder and rape has been raped and murdered and exploited for 30 years. Now tell me - doesn't that being deserve revenge?

The incredible twist happened all thanks to the brilliant writing for the character of Ford and Anthony Hopkins' astonishing portrayal. That some awards bodies nominated C-class actors from that other HBO show and not him disqualifies them completely. Ford has began as mysterious but seemingly benevolent genius. Then with each episode we saw him being more cruel and creepy and seemingly interested in more and more control over the hosts.

And now we know - all of this he has been through led him to one conclusion - the humans don't deserve this world. I truly hope that the creators stick to their decision - there are already theories floating around about that handshake and the host being made in Ford's basement, leading people to believe that the Ford shot on stage was a host. But as much as we will all miss sir Tony on the show the whole point was for Dolores to kill a human being out of her own free will.

This has been remarkable performance from Hopkins. Actually every single person in the cast was great - even Tessa Thompson who was uneven in this season was lovely when her Charlotte had tears in her eyes during Ford's moving speech. Maeve's storyline was easier to watch than in last episodes and Newton was yet again fantastic playing her.

I was also very impressed with James Marsden during the last few moments where he portrayed the terror of realizing Dolores is Wyatt so well. I'm hoping we will see the conflict between these two next season - it seems that Dolores is gonna be focused on revenge while Teddy may just find something good and worth protecting in the guests.

This has been an incredibly bleak affair. I don't know what I was expecting thinking that the love story will bring some levity - after all in Nolan's romance arcs someone always commits suicide, gets killed or Batman gets the wrong address from the Joker. Not only did we watch the brief flame of love die for William so quickly with him not even putting up a fight, but we saw the death of innocence - not just his. Dolores' too.

That was perhaps the most depressing thing here. We met Dolores as this happy, optimistic, sweet girl. She has been abused for years but in the morning, the very next day, she was brand new. Her memory was resetted, and every morning she knew hopefulness I don't think me or you feel when we wake up. And now that sweet Dolores is gone. All that she has now is anger and blood lust.

Overall, even though I might not have liked the direction a lot of things went in this has been a spectacular season and the decision to start the uprising so early was very brave. I'm hoping that we will get, in season 2, a more straight forward narrative (one has to wonder if William's arc was even necessary considering he didn't really become someone else, just got the incentive to show his true colors) and we get to meet the characters - I say meet because now that the hosts are becoming free they finally get a chance to develop their own personalities.

These violent delights really had violent ends. We will need to wait to see what the new beginning looks like but if season 1 is any indication, our patience will be rewarded.

98/100

PSA: There is an after credits scene in finale.

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I saw that finale between 4:30-6.00 AM on Monday before going to work so thanks to the above I was mentally like this pretty much this whole week.

Since he is wearing THAT when the hostpocalypse started...does it mean he is gonna wear that tux the whole season 2? Please God yes....for the sake of...realism.

The one thing I want (well, not the one but let's keep it somewhat decent...don't worry this post will derail into madness very soon) is for Harris and Hopkins to do a commentary track for episode 5 when it hits Blu-ray and DVD. Can you imagine them commenting on that Pariah orgy? Between Ed I'm not sure what is happening but it's cool Harris and Anthony I'm a distinguished gentleman and give such profound answersHopkins this would be a laugh riot.

m.brown said something lately about proposal scene in Stepmom. So I watched the movie.

Thanks, man. Now all men and all the possible proposals are ruined.

While being ~~kinda tipsy~~ completely drunk last Friday I finally saw the entire Abyss. Good God that movie was long. When an underwater alien showed up and grabbed Ed Harris' hand and they swam together I looked at my drink very suspiciously and asked it "what are you?". At one point though something finally started happening and Harris' shirt started coming off during a fight scene so I got momentarily conscious and excited but then it rolled back :(

There are almost no gifs from that movie on tumblr. I would make some but I already made the ones that opened this post so I fear for my health.

That resuscitation scene, though. When he yelled NOOO and just started slapping this chick I laughed so hard. It reminded me of Cartman yelling 'Do it! Do it!' to the guys to zap Kyle again. Turns out that I was right as that scene in South Park directly spoofed it.

I hate James Cameron so much. First he ruined Alien franchise by getting it from the horror genre track to the retarded action movie track. Then I almost got a bladder infection during Avatar because I really had to pee but didn't want to leave since I thought something will finally happen. So I sat there and it didn't. And now I am reading he almost killed Ed Harris:

During underwater filming, Ed Harris almost drowned. While filming a scene where he had to hold his own breath at the bottom of the submerged set, Harris ran out of air and gave the signal for oxygen. Harris' safety diver got hung up on a cable and could not get to him. Another crew member gave Harris a regulator, but it was upside down and caused him to suck in water. A camera man came over, ripped the upside down regulator, and gave him one in the correct orientation. Later that evening, Ed broke down and cried.

And then there was this:

Ed Harris punched James Cameron in the face after he kept filming while he was nearly drowning.

What is wrong with Cameron?! Did the pressure thing that happens underwater mess up his brain? I don't think this guy ever emerges anymore, he just sits in that capsule underwater coming up with shitty ideas for Avatar sequels which hopefully never manifest themselves in the form of even shittier movies.

Oh God J-boo....this is just tragic. What is this outfit, what is this hair?

In other bad news Family Guy made a joke about him. Suicide Squad also keeps showing up among 10 worst movies of the year lists. I smell a Razzie...

In other really bad news for DC fans (is there any other kind?) Flopmaster Armie Hammer is probably in Batfleck's Batman movie. So that bodes well...

The Honest Trailer for Suicide Squadwent surprisingly easy on the movie and J-boo. I hear most of the Screen Junkies liked the movie. Huh.

I still haven't seen the extended edition but I saw this today because people were laughing about it on the Hype and I just can't.

The new Live by Night poster is hilarious. Literally every single thing about it is funny. The tagline, the botox, the eye-test font...

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are campaigning for the Oscars relentlessly. Gosling has just done this and Emma is emerging as the front runner now that it seems Jackie is too complex for the Academy people (somewhere Viola's snot is shivering in fury that she switched to supporting). If these people weren't so charming the thirst would be off putting but they are both so likable It works.

Gosling was also asked about Blade Runner sequel and this was his input:

The complete opposite of Stone and Gosling is the duo of JLaw and Pratt.

When you are sitting on a coach with a pet abuser and in this moment you still have less class than him.

Pratt himself in the past said this - "I’m definitely pro-hunter, but elephant is something I would never shoot. I would like to hunt in Africa. I’d like to hunt all the game animals in Africa. The sh*t that’s being hunted today–like a gazelle, springbok, kudu, all that stuff. All those animals are really beautiful; you could feed some people, get a cool trophy out of the deal."

"The shit".

I mean she is just stupid. He is a genuinely vile person. That's cool baby Groot is cute or whatever in that new trailer, but I'm not watching it, neither I'm watching the movie no matter how good it is. I won't sit through anything featuring Pratt.

As for JLaw can she finally go away forever? How does Aronofsky go from Rachel Weisz to this?

Meanwhile JLaw's BFFis right that she is getting 'shit done' because her show is so unfunny and cringe worthy. This chick is just the worst - her little instagram message has the 24 uses of the word 'I' . Her and Lena Dunham want people to call them beautiful so badly. That they look what they look like is secondary - what is preventing anyone from considering them beautiful is how insecure these chicks are. For such a 'strong woman' who doesn't care about haters it is particularly hilarious Schumer lies about her size. She says she is size 6. Bryce Dallas Howard is size 6. I am size 6. Schumer is 12 at least. If she came out and said "I'm size 12 and I don't feel fat" I'd have respect for her. Look at Adele - beautiful inside and outside. But all of this...it's just sad to read and witness, really.

One day they will make a movie about Heroina and it will make Joan Crawford look like really chill and caring mom.

This whole thing is terrible and the director is an asshole who has no decency (shut the fuck up man, there is no excuse) but what I'm wondering here is this - does Jessica Chastain do anything else these days then star in movies that fall off the radar instantly + acts professionally outraged on twitter? She is not even calling out the director but the people who 'love the film'. That lighting bolt on her forehead must move so fast she cannot even aim her fury right.

Tom Ford says a lot of stuff here most of which is stupid as hell, but the thing that is also in the title...He is not wrong about what women go through. He knows fuck all because he is a man but at least he seems to be grasping the idea. However I doubt any guy will take his advice on this, also this is not the same thing at all.

I'm not gonna be judgemental about this sort of thing. I did the math and there is 44 years of difference and $150.000 a year. Well considering the opening paragraphs that is 39 and I'd go for free....however Mick Jagger never looked like this. I sense I should stop rambling now.

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So anyways...

Johnny 9 Digitswas voted the most overpaid actor in Hollywood for the second year in a row. No argument there, but why is DiCaprio on this list? He sells the shit out of this movies. The Revenant made an insane amount of money and it was a boring as hell film filled with shots of snow, sky, forest and moaning DiCaprio. And people went to see it mostly to see him whore himself out to get the Oscar. That dude is worth every penny.

James Francois gonna be in Alien:Covenant. With him and McBride both being there I'm gonna go ahead and say this is Hell from This is the End.

Also we've got so much info about the first trailer yesterday. First it sounded bad, but then 15 minutes of the movie and the trailer was screened for the journalists and they raved about it. The trailer apparently features lots of gore and cover of David Bowie's song. As I predicted it is going to be attached to Assassin's Creed.

Jimmy Kimmelis gonna host the Oscars. I don't really care about the ceremony this year but at least it won't be "the white people suck" shitshow from last year which was unwatchable.

I'm so excited for Golden Globes nominations on Monday. I hope Jeffrey Wright, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood and the show get nominated. And of course Anthony Hopkins. Do you know he only has a honorary Golden Globe? He didn't even win for The Silence of the Lambs! I haven't seen much of his work from 80's and 90's but I'd say he has not been as wonderful as he is in Westworld since that movie. It's a tremendous performance. Everyone watched that show so closely and yet him and the writers managed to keep the truth about his character from us till the very end. Just wonderful.

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I have seen a fair share of WW2 movies and not once did I ever root for the Germans. Well there, is first time for everything because I saw Enemy at the Gates on Saturday and this was just fucking ridiculous:

I legitimately stopped breathing.

Also he played a really nice character. That's right, he didn't kill any robot children or anything like that. And we all know I basically drown in drool over him in Westworld so imagine this.

I mean he technically did play a Nazi sniper but his character was very sweet. Am I making any sense here?

The film was pretty good but those sniper scenes were the best ones and not just because we got the extreme close ups of the Magnificent Blue. TM.

I also saw Buffalo Soldiers where Ed also played a military guy and was walking around in a uniform.

*kitten noises* *kitten noises getting drowned out by the drool wave* *coughing noise*

The film was pretty fun and David Holmes did the score and I love David Holmes. The lovely Mr. Harris also played a very nice character here and his wife was cheating on him with Joaquin Phoenix. I was disgusted! You just wanted to hug him and tell him his wife is a whore and Phoenix is making drugs on the side.

Important announcement - as soon as this post is live I am gonna watch this. I will most likely live tweet a lot of it. So may God have mercy on my twitter followers. Here's the trailer which Brittani found:

I almost died just from watching this. It seems beautifully ridiculous. And he is so very naked.

What the fuck HFPA. I can kinda see (though I cannot understand or forgive) how Ed Harris wasn't nominated (one category for supporting actors from all TV things) but Anthony Hopkins? What the hell do you have to be on to watch Westworld and not nominate him? This is just a disgrace.

Same goes for SAG. And not even Evan?! Really?! Oh my God they even nominated Dinklage for that one scene he had with him petting CGI dragons.

At least Evan won Critics Choice adorably:

In other words I have legitimately zero reasons to care about the Oscar season this year.

Rogue One is great. I actually liked it better than The Force Awakens which was basically just a rehash of New Hope. This one was far more daring and it's actually a war movie set in the universe, it's very different from every other Star Wars movie. I don't like Felicity Jones that much but she was fine here, no one in the movie is as good as Daisy Ridley but the ensemble works well (though Mikkelsen is as usual underused, what the hell, Hollywood?). I don't wanna say much because I don't wanna spoil you guys but the last act is really incredible. I don't know the franchise this well but I think this was the best Vader scene ever.

Also - do not bring kids to this. I know kids like stuff like Harry Potter, comic book movies and Star Wars but skip this one. I really don't understand why people bring their 5 or 6 year old kids to stuff like this. There are so many horrible things out there in the real world like war, death or Amy Schumer. Soon enough the kids will realize these things are out there. This film is very, very heavy. It's the opposite of TFA where some planet blew up (who cares, did we even know anyone there?) and one horrific thing happened and the rest of the movie was cute BB8 and Rey mastering every single skill she just heard of five seconds before.

I don't have kids so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about but I was a kid once myself. Also I always cover Gustav's eyes when there are dogs fucking nearby (Jesus Christ, my neighborhood you guys...)

So this is the Polish TV spot for Rogue One. I don't know if it's just for us or it was out in other countries too but it's the worst. Those title cards say stuff like 'Women can't fight', 'Women give up' etc. and then show Jyn doing the reverse - fighting, not giving up etc. This right here is why Ghostbusters was hated and Hilary Clinton lost. Shoving statements down people's throats. Can we not? Can the liberal media stop helping women prove they are equal? Because it is accomplishing the reverse.

Don't advertise a comedy by saying 'women are funny' - actually make a funny comedy with women and don't release unfunny trash and call people who hated it misogynists.

Don't run polls saying a woman will DEFINITELY win the election when there is a possibility she won't.

Don't market Star Wars with a lead character being a female by saying women can fight - just release the damn movie where you can see that woman fight.

Well guess what, some women are not funny and some cannot fight. And that spot also says 'women are frightened of those bigger than them' and then they show Jyn not being afraid of the robot. Well, guess what. I'm 5'1'. I AM afraid of those bigger than me. And if I saw a gigantic robot in front of me I'd ~~probably~~ most definitely shit myself.

When the media is starting to paint us like some mythical creatures it puts people off not just whatever liberal media rallies behind - whether it's a movie or presidential candidate - but the idea too. It's annoying me and I am a fairly liberal female. So I really don't think this technique would convince a conservative male that ladies 'rule' or whatever the fuck. Because how do you think the ads like that play out when we have a famous actress who is being called 'relatable'talking about pissing on a lawn behind her mother on a talk show. Such inspiration for women. Such reason for men to respect us.

Having no shame, dignity or class is not 'edgy', 'brave' or 'funny'. It's pathetic. Why can't these women act like ladies? Why can't these fucking actresses find anything else to talk of other than their bodily functions?

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You know, we live in an awful time where anyone can just spew their 'thoughts' like that Randolph chick or this Stuckmann guy on Youtube and somehow people think they are legitimate movie critics. There used to be grace and thought to movie criticism and now there are people like these two.

There is some nobility to written word. I hate podcasts and youtube videos. Who has the time to listen/watch those anyways? I sure as shit don't.

The world is not heading in a good direction. You used to go to cinema to see a movie, now you can stream it on your mobile. You used to have to read through reviews, now you can just listen to them on headphones in the form of these wretched podcasts. And it's not that the world is moving faster and that the people are more busy. No, it's that people are become more lazy, entitled and dumber with every passing second.

First look at The Beauty and the Beast house appliances in human form made me laugh so hard. Jesus Christ, McGregor!

David Ayer, a guy who yells 'Fuck Marvel!' at the premiere, who doesn't grasp his own movie's continuity (claims Harley is an accomplice in the murder of Robin even though Joker killed Robin before meeting her) and blatantly lies to the fans (by saying, among other things, that theatrical cut of Squad is his cut) got hired by WB to direct that all female Harley Quinn thing. Every time I think there is no possible way for WB to fuck themselves over more than they already are when it comes to DCEU they go and they do something like this. Ayer, who directed a movie featuring Viola Davis calling Harley 'fearless' 10 seconds before petrified Harley shouts 'I can't swim!' is getting a go ahead to direct another big budget movie. Hey, WB wouldn't it be easier to just burn all the millions of dollars you have lying around you so clearly don't give a fuck about? At least that would be you going method and pulling the Joker and it's still better use of that cash than whatever sure garbage fire this is gonna turn out to be.

Also apparently Megan Fox is in talks to play Poison Ivy. Good. This movie is gonna be trash anyways so let's not waste actual talented people's time on this.

Emmy Rossumthinks she is a draw. She is wrong.

On one hand Macy is more acclaimed and more well known and on the other Rossum is lead. The acclaim goes a long way and it's earned and let's not pretend Rossum is in the same acting league as Macy. Hell, she has nothing other than that show and now probably won't ever have more. Since she is lead, the same amount of money is fair. But this talk of her wanting to be compensated for previous years is beyond ridiculous.

Denzel Washingtonwhined about'living' through OscarsSoWhite prejudice. Yes. The guy who has 2 wins and may win 3rd one this year lived through it. Such bravery, Denzel. Such accuracy, man.

Dunkirk teaser is finally here and it's spectacular. My favorite thing wasn't even that one shot of Hardyboo (who I am assuming plays a pilot, yey, a flying Hardyboo!) but the terrific, very unique yet epic score. Was that something original by Zimmer? I hate it when the trailer has a great music and then it's not used in the actual movie, worse yet the actual music in the film is much worse - I'm looking at you Revenant. So I'm really hoping it's Zimmer's piece from the film.

Also the teenage girls in love with that singer dude who is in this will make this the next top grossing movie for Nolan right after Batman flicks. I'm loving the fact that tumblr is freaking out about a movie about Dunkirk evacuation of all things. Someone should film Nolan's face (with obligatory Mike Leigh cameo) after they show him a tweet saying "Dunkirk! I hope Harry sings in this!".

50 Centhad a meltdown over not getting Globe nomination. I think my meltdown was better since it was happening simultaneously on several platforms.

Arrivalis NOT eligible for Best Score Oscar

I hear Blade Runner 2049 teaser is coming! It's gonna be attached to that Two Pieces of Trash in Space movie that is flopping and I'm so happy about that.

And here is pet abuser Chris Pratt kissing his pet abuser wife Anna Faris and not even looking at her.

And here is Ryan talking about working with Harrison Ford and getting punched: we were doing a fight scene and, you know, it just happened. But what was funny was, when it was over, they brought ice for my face, and Harrison pushed me out of the way and stuck his fist in the ice. I asked him the other day where he got his sense of humor from-was it from his mother or his father? He said, 'Sears.' And he didn't have much time to shop around so he just had to grab one and get out. You know...he's tough. He's been an inspiration to everyone-everyone is doing push-ups now and taking an interest in their fitness. As soon as it happened, the director came up to me and said, 'Look at it this way-you just got hit by Indiana Jones.' He came by afterward with this bottle of scotch, and I thought, 'Oh, I knew this was coming.' And he pulled out a glass from his pocket, poured me a glass, and walked away with the rest of the bottle. So I guess he felt like he didn't connect enough to earn a whole bottle. You know, they say don't meet your heroes, but I would say the addendum to that is '...unless they're Harrison Ford.' Cause he's a cool motherf---er

and we all thought it's Leto who is getting punched...

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Merry Christmas! Here's shirtless Ed Harris in Knightriders.

You are catching me on my worst week since like 6 months. Or years. Work has been a nightmare this week. Like seriously awful, awful stuff. But let's just...look at that gif above. And drink. A LOT.

I'm ~~kinda~~ hammered right now so this is probably gonna be worse than usual.

Over the weekend I have indulged myself in some more of Mr. Harris work. I have now seen zero Oscar movies out of the current season and about 10 Ed Harris movies this month alone. And it's only 23rd. I have so much left to watch.

Harris worked three times with the pride of Poland Agnieszka Holland. They made that horrible Beethoven movie together (it's so awful) but they also made To Kill a Priest (which is based on a very famous killing in our history) and Third Miracle where he plays a priest.

So if I watch the latter and the Catholics are right and Hell is real then I'm definitely going there. Because there is no way anything not depraved would go through my head during this movie.

In other words I'm so seeing it this weekend. Probably tomorrow on Christmas' Eve for full perv effect.

Last Friday I saw Knightriders and I did live tweet some of that in mature and intelligentways. Halfway through I gave up on perving publicly and just perved in private going like this --->

The film was shockingly accessible but keep in mind I was wasted while watching it. Bright Eyes was shirtless for 50% of that movie. I barely made it out alive.

On Saturday I saw Absolute Power directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Clint himself, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman and Judy Davis in a hilarious over the top performance. The film was entertaining and the cast was great but I want to talk about this:

There was a scene where Ed Harris (who plays a cop) takes Laura Linney home. Her character was almost killed when a sniper started shooting. During this scene Ed Harris keeps mentioning he lives alone, with the heavy subtext of 'I like you, can I stay?' and yet she doesn't ask him to stay.

What the fuck, Laura Linney? Even if I wasn't just almost killed, I'd probably tear off his clothes or at least go "oh officer I am so scared please stay here with me" *looks down, looks up sheepishly, bites lip*

I also saw Eye for an Eye which was just so trashy. Sally Field and Ed Harris played the parents of a girl who was raped and killed and seriously you wouldn't have told that from their acting (except for one scene in which he cried). They were too chill about this which was in disconnect to what Field's character was trying to do through the entire movie. Well, at least he looked super handsome in this.

IMAX made a hilarious error and accidentally uploaded that Mummy reboot with Tom Cruise trailer without some of the sound effects. I cannot seem to find it now because the studio keeps pulling it off the web. You know, to spare the movie ridicule. As if it's not ridiculous enough. Anyways someone mixed Tom Cruise's ridiculous screams with Star Wars footage and it's probably the best thing you'll see all week. Or month. And here is yet another mash-up.

We finally have the glorious first Blade Runner 2049trailer and the first pictures. Doesn't Harrison look super psyched to be there?

He looks like I look and feel on Monday mornings. And Tuesday mornings. And Wednesday mornings...yeah, you get the picture..

Also why the fuck does Ana de Amas had to be so not terrible in War Dogs and look so pretty in that pic here? I hate her performance in Knock Knock almost as badly as I want to climb the God in the first gif of that post. I'm so confused right now because she looks just lovely and probably gonna be our new Rachael figure.

It's worrying me a little bit that Gosling has the exact same expression on all of those pictures. Please let this performance be Gosling in Drive and not Gosling in Only God Forgives.

Alien Covenant trailer is most likely coming tomorrow, Christmas Day at the latest. It's amusing that we still don't have the trailer yet the entire plot of the movie leaked. Well, it's a better story than Prometheus and from the looks of it the film doesn't have a single scene as dumb as Idris Elba or Charlize Theron's death scene but it's still not the best. Let's hope the execution is gonna be incredible. Also it sounds Fassbender has one hell of a role(s) here and damn, does that guy need it after pretty much all he was in in 2016 bombed.

God bless Dolores and her horrible taste in men.

So Michael Sheenis a dumbass. Few days before "a refugee" killed a Polish driver and slaughtered innocent people in Berlin, Sheen was proclaiming it's so awful that right wing parties are in power and he may in the future quit acting to help 'fight it'.

Sheen whose show - which didn't have that big of viewership in the first place - was just cancelled would quit that 'career' to 'fight' right wing influences in UK.

I'll let that sink in.

The media actually reported that he is quitting acting. He went in on tumblr to explain and then he explained an explanation. This is all so embarrassing in the first place for a grown ass man with all kinds of public relations people to declare this on tumblr but the stupidity here is just insane. And that goes for all the batshit liberal celebrities. The democracy in my country is on the brink of collapsing thanks to our right wing ruling party but you know what? At least they are against letting 'refugees' in. Have you guys read about the guy who killed all those people? How many times he broke the law? And yet he was still here in Europe? It's just so fucked up.

Why don't those rich celebrities bring some of those 'refugees' to their homes near their women and children? Do that and then talk to us about what is right and wrong.

Also read this SJW having a meltdown because La La Land is about white people (gasp!). He goes about it as if Gosling was dancing around with white sheet on his head while Emma Stone yells the N word.

Next topic:

I very much enjoyed the de-aged/artificially created characters in Rogue One because it was done for continuity's sake. But it seems that Hollywood is gonna continue doing this on a larger scale. While I won't go as far as to call it, as one hysterical reviewer did, 'unethical' it's creepy as hell. 5 or 10 minutes of footage like that is OK, but imagine if they make most of the movie this way or resurrect dead actors to create new performances. This is not right. It's a CGI replica of a person, not an actual person (I feel like we are almost in Westworld territory with the ethical dilemmas here). Movies create illusion and immersion but you cannot suspend your disbelief for this long. You know how old actor is or that he is dead. Something that can be a cool little moment stretched to long portions of time is just disturbing. Also it must be so unpleasant for someone to see their face CGIed to look younger.

I know I joked few weeks back about how cool (that's not the word I'm looking for here...) would it be to make porn with de-aged Ed Harris but my imagination works fine enough, thank you.

I don't know how to do a proper segway from my humorous remark about porn so I'm not eve gonna try but as I am about to publish this Carrie Fisher who was actually just digitally inserted into Rogue One was reportedly taken to hospital after suffering a massive heart attack. She hasn't been breathing for around 10 minutes on the plane. She is so important to so many people...this year is truly horrible.

Now let's do another horrible segway....

So Live by Night got some serious fisting action from critics. My first instinct was making this face --->

because Batfleck is literally the only hope DCEU has left. I actually don't think it's even full blown hope - it's like a chance...of a glimpse...of hope. That's how much DCEU sucks at the moment. But Batfleck's new movie getting trashed is quite literally the worst thing that could happen to DCEU right now. Until next month when it gets like 20 Razzie nominations. At least.

However look at this quote from one of the reviews:

Based on a 2012 novel by Dennis Lehane, the film is sharply written and crafted, lavishly photographed, impeccably acted, with lots of twists and turns — yet for all that, it somehow lacks zing. I say “somehow” because the flaw, or limitation, or whatever it is about “Live by Night” isn’t obvious.

...what?

In other words Kirk Lazarus warned us all and yet people keep going full retard all over the place.

MettelRay reviews Nocturnal Animals

Brittani, Ruth, Keith and m.brown review Rogue One

Alex wrote a brilliant article about the curse of twin movie

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(spoilers!)
2016 is officially the worst year ever. Not only a whole bunch of awful and tragic stuff happened but with the exception of The Witch every single movie I was waiting for and had its very own header on this website sucked. The Revenant. Suicide Squad. And now this.

I love A Single Man. It's one of my all time favorite movies - it's beautifully shot, well acted, profound, moving. It's done with a lot of thought and a lot of heart. I don't know what Tom Ford's goals where when he was making Nocturnal Animals but unless those goals were to make something other than trash he did not succeed.

The film follows vapid and uptight Susan who has a job in a gallery, a cheating husband and deer in the headlights look throughout the film. Susan is unhappy. One day she gets a manuscript of a book her ex-husband Edward, one she left 19 years ago, wrote and dedicated to her. Since that moment the movie starts going back and forth between Susan's life and the events in the book.

I'm just gonna go ahead and start listing the flaws of this movie. The dialogue is ridiculous. Nobody talks like that. Maybe Ford is surrounded with starving models and yes men and doesn't know it, but the script doesn't have a single believable human interaction. The two worst scenes when it comes to lines are the interactions between Tony and Bobby about looking older and Susan's conversation with her secretary or whoever that was. Add to that the whole bunch of implausible stuff - the whole roadside altercation is so stupid -Tony makes zero effort to stop what's happening, confronting him with Ray in one room by the cops is just not something that would ever happen in real life etc. I really cannot decide which was more unbelievable - Susan's scenes or the events of the book.

The symbolism! Ford should have just inserted subtitles describing the scenes to the audience because he already treats them as complete morons. When the book arrives Susan gives herself a paper cut (get it? She has blood on her hands!). When Susan is walking around the gallery she passes a gigantic sign with the word "REVENGE" plastered on it (get it? The book is revenge!). Fragile! (shot above). It's all so in your face it's cringe inducing. And then there are ridiculous jump scares that add absolutely nothing and are not justified at all. And also a truly disgusting rape scene flashback which was completely unnecessary. When that happened I knew that this is not gonna be a great movie, just a trash script handled by a juvenile director.

And the whole conclusion is so banal...the ending is actually not ambiguous at all, to me it's clear he doesn't show up. Ford is out there giving laughable interviews how he wants people to decide if Edward shows up because he "still loves her" or he doesn't and she helped him write "his masterpiece". First of all, what masterpiece? Edward's book is awful. Not only is it cliched but there is a whole chain of implausible things in it. I don't think you could make even a mediocre TV movie out of that book. Second of all, this whole time we are being led to think Susan did something awful to Edward. What happened was she decided to leave him, found herself a new guy and aborted Edward's baby. This is banal. This sort of thing happens. And also what is Ford trying to say here? That Susan is the devil for deciding she wanted a different life? What, should she force herself to have a child with a man she was leaving? I don't like what Ford is suggesting here. It reeks of sexist undertones. And third of all - 19 years. This guy was holding a grudge for 19 years?

Then you have the performances - Gyllenhaal tries but he really can't do much with material like that. Adams is good when she plays a really well written or clearly good/evil oriented character - someone purely good like in Doubt or someone bad like in the Master. But when the character is this boring, she is just forgettable. It's simply Amy Adams looking sad walking around in nice clothes.

Johnson is ridiculous in most of his scenes and HFPA nominating him for Golden Globe is so clearly yet another pathetic attempt of theirs to lure a pretty person to red carpet. Ford must have been super horny for Armie Hammer to cast him here as a 40-year old with a teenage daughter. Jena Malone is laughable in her cameo role. Laura Linney gives a performance so over the top that it's actually funny so at least it's something. Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen show up for 5 minutes and out-act everyone listed above.

The only person who made this pretentious mess worth seeing was Michael Shannon whose charisma and great comedic timing saved this film. He plays Bobby Andes, detective who basically has to hold Tony's hand the entire time as he switches between being barely upset his wife and daughter were raped and killed and being totally distraught to the point of crippling despair (I don't remember the last time I saw a character as atrociously written as Gyllenhaal's Tony here). Shannon is funny, interesting and doesn't seem too lost in ridiculous plot. He gives a wonderful performance in a mess of a movie.

Another highlight is the pretty cinematography and lovely score. But it's really not enough. If you told me this movie was made by someone who made A Single Man I wouldn't believe you. There are people out there trying to figure out connections between Edward's book and Susan's real life but I just sit here astonished that anyone cares. I truly don't, hence 10 paragraph review is all this movie gets.

Nocturnal Animals (2016, USA, 116 min)
Plot: An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.
Director: Tom Ford
Writers: Tom Ford (screenplay), Austin Wright (novel)
Stars: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon

(Here's me and Gustav serving you Xmas chic if you haven't seen it on my twitter yet)

I just can't with 2016. Is there anyone out there who is going to tell me this year isn't cursed? Princess Leia goes to hospital practically on Christmas Eve, dies few days afterwards and her mother passes away while planning her funeral. George Michael whose Last Christmas has been playing around Christmas Time since the 80's dies on Christmas Day. And now I read the worlds oldest panda died too. It's too much.

(by the way I don't think I'm out of line by suggesting every single person who was outraged about Steve Martin's tweet should be put into psych ward for observation for rabid SJW psychosis)

I am not a huge Star Wars nerd and I was never the biggest fan of Fisher but I appreciate the fact how important Fisher was to people and how much support they found in her. So all of this was deeply saddening and I completely broke down when I saw her beloved dog Garry's tweets.

And that vigil the fans held...

And then the news about Debbie Reynolds. There will be a joint funeral.

I cannot even imagine what poor Billie Lourd is going through - such a young person, beginning actress, lost two of the most important women in her life one day after another. It's just too awful.

Billie is gonna take care of Gary. I sure hope him and Billie's dog are in good health.

I am so worried for my heroes. This year still has another day.

Then there is my extremely shitty year with everything really - starting with my love life going through my health problems in the summer and just all around my horrible job which I truly hate and horrible atmosphere where I work. Everything sucks.

I swear to God the only good thing that happened in 2016 was Westworld. The only. good. fucking. thing.

This year is so cursed. We need to do something.

Like really, if I can have one wish for 2017 it is to not feel so horribly, utterly alone anymore. It's just a terrible way to feel. I am so very tired of feeling like this.

Gonna keep RF short tonight since I already trashed one of two movies I saw this week and not much happened other than sad and terrible things.

Alien: Covenant trailer premiered on Christmas Day and while I did like it there is whole lot of people complaining about it online. I somewhat agree the trailer shows too much in terms of character deaths. On the other hand this is a movie in Alien franchise - of course the majority of characters are going to die. The one thing I didn't like was that they kept reminding us this is Alien movie every few seconds - bursting out of body! The egg! Alien itself! Wouldn't the title be sufficient? Fox is so clearly panicked that a lot of people whined about lack of aliens in Prometheus so they really want to get the message 'Alien is in it' across desperately.

Also why do people keep taking off their helmets upon landing on some creepy planet?

That said I really loved the acting in this trailer. Katherine Waterston is so charming and cute and as much as Elizabeth Shaw in Prometheus was innocent character and Rapace portrayed that beautifully you still had the image of Rapace being Lisbeth Salander stuck in your head. With Waterston we truly have innocent, sweet character who is poised to be the final girl, most likely. The most impressive thing for me was brief shot of disgruntled Danny McBride. I'm really looking forward to him delivering more dramatic role here.

As for Michael Fassbender - moisturize your face and star in better movies! He ages as rapidly as Ed Harris, but Ed Harris never lost the hot. Fassbender is now staring at it in the rear-view mirror. That close up of his face in the trailer was just off putting. I wouldn't want to sit on that face anymore.

Well this is as good of a place in this post as any to start writing about that Ed Harris priest movie I saw on Christmas Eve.

If they didn't want me to perv they shouldn't have included a hardcore make out scene with Ed and Anne Heche. Again I was like this.

What was the movie about? Does it matter? This matters.

Nocturnal Animals. No.

Here's some grade A Thirst Fuckery

Golden Globes - first presenters were announced. Amy Schumer and Eddie Redmayne. Oh man. Good thing I have a day off the next week and can drink during this.

Keith lists top 10 movies of the year

m.brown reviews Southside with You

Brittani reviews Into the Forest

MettelRay looks at the year 2016 in cinema

Jordan reviews Elle

Dan writes about Jackie

Allie reviews that sci-fi misfire with two awful people in space

Ruth finally saw Westworld and she loves it!

Dell reviews Arrival

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I watched almost all episodes of Black Mirror this week. It's a truly outstanding series. I'm gonna try to make a quick post where I rank all the episodes soon but number 1 would be a hard choice between Shut up and Dance and San Junipero. I really think if San Junipero (starring Mackenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) was a movie people would go nuts for it. I'm thinking about doing Visual Parallels with this episode but I don't know when I get to it. I also really liked White Christmas but does Jon Hamm always play assholes? I never saw him play anyone likable. The series is so cool because other than some small Easter eggs the episodes aren't connected at all so you can watch them in whatever order you want. And the cast they assembled in the show is really amazing.

Also I just gotta say I don't remember seeing Gugu in anything before but wow she is gorgeous! She is playing one of those house appliances in The Beauty and the Beast and how the hell would the Prince ever wanna get with Wooden Watson over this knockout?!

I saw the first episode of The Crown this week and I really liked it, particularly the music but holy hell does Matt Smith creep me out. Him and Cumberbatch are two men I cannot believe some chicks find hot. Also he is such a one note actor.

The two Ed Harris movies I checked out while heavy breathing on weekend were National Treasure 2 - which was so ridiculous but he did a lot of action stuff in that so yey - and Virginia - which was a bizarre movie but there was this one scene where he spanked Jennifer Connelly with his belt so I quite literally almost collapsed on the floor while simultaneously clawing my own fucking face like Catelyn Stark during Red Wedding. Duplicate him and bring him to me goddammit.

I probably won't be watching Globes live this year. Maybe The Oscars, I don't know. I actually have a day off on Monday but do I really want to sit there till 5 AM when Magnificent Boo or Hardyboo won't even attend (they are both in London right now)? Original Boo Harrison was there last year so why bother again and J-boo is probably banned for life after HFPA saw Suicide Squad. I am tired. I don't have the time. I also really don't care. I genuinely don't feel like watching at all this year. I've been recapping the ceremonies for years but I won't anymore. Maybe it's the decreasing readership of the website which is just a reflection of me having less time, strength and desire to run it anymore. Less posts, less everything. I only visit fellow bloggers' websites about once a week, if that. The only things I genuinely loved last year were TV not cinema and something tells me Dead Eyed Gos swirling around in cute surroundings ain't gonna wake up my desire to write about films. But Oscars season? The only two movies that will get mentions that I want to see are Jackie and Arrival and it doesn't look like I actually get to see them any time soon.

So there won't be ceremonies recap, they will be included in RF if I see them.

I am however thrilled Anya Taylor-Joy made it onto BAFTA Rising Star list

Here is the poster for The Lure - a Polish horror mermaid movie I have been meaning to see for a year now. It's apparently bizarre as hell (having seen some of my great country's horror movies I am sure it is) but that is one amazing poster.

Ben Affleck may not do that Batman movie after all. My advice to him is to run away from DCEU. They have no idea what they are doing and they keep wasting all those talented actors they have. I'd love to see Batfleck's solo film but I have a sense the studio is meddling and that's why he is changing his tune now and saying the movie may never happen.

I cannot wait for this offensively insecure comedy wannabe to fall into obscurity along with her fat ass that is still so clearly photoshoped after her show end. I still cannot believe HBO did 6 seasons of that shit.

Speaking of photoshop, W magazine delivered what is the most ridiculous photoshoot I've seen in a very long time. I actually had to look up who is on that picture on the left because they are both so airbrushed:

And Michelle Williams' jaw, neck and chin were just massacred. Not to mention the actual photoshoot photos which are ridiculous. That's Chris Pine, apparently.

A shame that Jesus didn't tell Chris Pratt to treat animals well and not be a complete and utter douche bag.

Ryan Reynoldsreally wants those Deadpool Oscar nominations to happen.

It's a new year but it's same old Johnny 9 Digits/Amber Heard feud.

Darren Aronofsky has completely lost contact with reality. You're crawling with herpes now, Darren.

Taboo is about to premiere so Hardyboo has been promoting it which is wonderful. He also wished us all happy New Year in a adorable way.

And here's him reading a bedtime story. Good God, man.

Kevin reviews La La Land

Allie lists top 10 movies of the year

Nikhat lists the films she is waiting for in 2017

Ruth shares Five for Fifth for January

Brittani lists her favorite legal thrillers

m.brown reviews Bridget Jones' Baby

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Guess who is 5 years old today? And backed by a popular demand - and by that I mean m.brown - yes, it's my voice on that video. This is why I don't do podcasts. Oh and what I'm saying is 'treat' to get him to look at the camera. Which seems like a stupid thing to do when he is eating a gigantic pig ear.

I fear one of those days Batfleck is going to snap and none of us is going to survive to tell the tale.

He has been promoting Live by Night giving dozens interviews everywhere and it went like this:

I literally become nervous just looking at him.

I haven't even seen the entire Globesceremony yet. I could do that tonight but I have grand plans instead:

I also need to rewatch Taboo. I was so focused on lusting after Hardy half of the plot eluded me.

Man, what is up with La La Land love. The most honored movie in 74 years of this thing. I'm going to see it next week but what is even more astonishing to me is that Alex chose it as his fav in 2016. To me it looks like two nice people prancing around in colorful surroundings, but clearly I must be missing something.

The whole room exploded with applause for Brad Pitt. I loved it. Hollywood sent Angelina a very clear message with that and that message was we are onto you, biatch.

I have seen a lot of people bomb on these award shows but what Hiddleston did was truly something astonishing. Never have I seen someone soberly sabotaging their own career so aggressively.

Westworld left home empty handed but Evan Rachel Wood totally stole the red carpet show:

If only she didn't tweet relentlessly about that the whole week, getting in arguments with people who were saying someone else wore a suit to awards shows before. Why bother arguing with these people?

Also Amy Adams is a fan of the show!:

I didn't think there was anything worse than Sarah Jessica Parkerwas wearing but upon googling what Sophie Turnerwore it turned out that I couldn't be more wrong.

Kudos to Gosling for two things - one, a lovely speech. And two, and that is more impressive, not vomiting on Goldie Hawn, his Globe, his waiter jacket and EVERYWHERE on that stage when he had to kiss Amy Schumer.

Ryan Reynolds kissed Andrew Garfield at the table where Mel Gibson was. I wish we could have seen the look on his face.

Allow me not to stand up and clap for Streep. She did that for Polanski. So she is not the person who should be going on moral tirades about decency.

What is up with Kick Ass getting a Golden Globe AND a BAFTA nomination? This is more than what Hardy got for The Revenant from these people last year! Is Tom Ford sending the disc with director's cut of that mess (which apparently includes Kick Ass' dick) wrapped in his suits and sprinkled with his cologne? And what is this cologne? Deer musk and hallucinogens? JESUS!

At that point I'm pretty sure Ryan Reynolds personally blew every single person in the Academy to ensure Deadpool gets Oscar nominations.

I can't even find words to describe this news. The headline speaks for itself.

I hate this culture of people having to apologize for every little goddamn thing. That poor journalist who misspoke was in tears when she was apologizing for it.

Natalie Portman is throwing her once co-star under the bus in her last attempt to get that second Oscar. The buzz around her started to die out, she lost the Globe so what to do? Be in the news! Somehow! And when you are not funny or insightful, get SJW outrage on the case! I really feel bad for those male co-stars who face backlash because they were paid more than women. Sure, the women should be paid equal money for equal job but this was a romantic comedy and when it comes to comedy Kutcher is a much bigger draw than Portman who doesn't seem to have detectable hints of sense of humor. So obviously he got more money. Now she is off whining and I am sure braindead SJWs are coming after Kutcher. Like they would be all 'NO! YOU ARE AWFUL FOR PAYING ME MORE MONEY THAN THIS WOMAN!' in real life if it happened to them.

Nicole Kidman is in the news saying that the Americans should always stand behind their President and obviously she is getting trashed for expressing her opinion by the same SJWs who are probably dividing their time between calling Keaton racist and calling Kutcher gross misogynist for the above. Yes. Because making jokes about piss or golden showers helps anything here (like this Westworld actress did). Because posting pictures of aliens and comparing them to your new First Lady helps anything (like this well known critic did).

These people are ridiculing a man who is capable of ridiculing himself. It's redundant. The only thing that accomplishes is me losing respect for people acting this way. Get some perspective, not twitter account where all you do is mock. From where I am people in US are still so lucky just to be where they are.

I give you NIGHTMARES:

#DMVSoWhite

In all fairness if someone is supposed to play Jackson - to avoid SJW nonsense - is that person expected to be black and pull reverse Kirk Lazarus? Or is that not gonna be enough for them too and there should never be any depiction of Jackson in movies/TV? This whole show looked like a bad idea but I am not sure how they were expected to portray Jackson. The man did it to himself, what, are we just supposed to yell 'OH BUT BLACK PEOPLE!' and ignore what he looked like?

Behold - a moron trying to kiss a strange dog in its own house.

Here's the shortlist for Razzies. It's very unfair that Affleck and Robbie are there. They gave good performances in mess of a movie, if anything that is even more impressive than giving a good performance in a good movie. And where are those assholes Lawrence and Pratt?

You lovely functioning people have your award season. And I have mine:

Brittani reviews La La Land

Allie lists 10 movies that made her cry in 2016

Jordan reviews Paterson

Courtney reviews Green Room

Keith recaps Golden Globes

Kevin reviews Jackie

ThatMomentIn has a spotlight on Ed Harris' 5 early roles. I have yet to see The Right Stuff - I need to do that before seeing Hidden Figures because I refuse to see Chad from Scream Queens play John Glenn before I see Ed do it

m.brown reviews Fences

Ruth and Alex choose top 10 movies of 2016

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OK guys, the next time you see a movie, before recommending it to me you really need to take a moment. If it has Ed Harris, no matter what it is (unless he kills a dog in it), go ahead. Tell me about it, I will see it. I will perv while livetweeting it. I will have a great time. But in every other case take a moment and ponder the following - 'will Sati like this? Like, really like this? Or will she watch it and find herself in need of hate-tweeting about it for at least 3 days with the addition of Ron Swanson 'this is my hell' gif'?

Arrival is one of the worst films I've seen in a long, long time. All I heard about this movie was how awesome it was and I really wanted to like it. But when 15 minutes in I found myself bored as hell, not digging the protagonist, plot or whatever the fuck Adams was doing - scratch that, she was doing nothing - I knew this will not go well.

But I thought OK maybe it will get better. Since literally everyone in blogosphere liked it, it must? It's gonna get better!

It got worse.

It made me appreciate Interstellar. That's how bad it was. Interstellar at least had 1. some energy 2. few good scenes 3. a central performance that made the protagonist relatable. Hell, it even made me appreciate Nocturnal Animals because at least it had Shannon's performance going for it. I saw 193 minute long movie on Saturday and comparing to Arrival it felt short and Arrival was 'just' 110 minutes long. I kid you not - I almost didn't finish it. I actually had to fight the urge to turn it off. And not an hour in, no, 10 mins near the end, because I just didn't care and couldn't take it anymore.

I know for some reason a lot of people love it but I thought it was boring, it didn't move me at all and that scene with subtitles and huge aliens was just embarrassing to watch. Remember that EW cover with Ford in Blade Runner 2046? That was my expression during this scene. A mixture of disgust and the thought "why am I doing this with my time?"

When Bullock spoke of her kid in Gravity and McConaughey watched the video transmission in Interstellar I was moved. Those simple moments that just focused on actors were enough. Here we had - sad twist! manipulative flashbacks! rousing music! - to zero effect. I rolled my eyes and thanked God this was over.

I am more shocked at critic love for this one than for Ghostbusters (fear explains that). What exactly was so good about this movie? Other than the score which is hilariously disqualified from Oscars? What, the message that we need to talk to each other? You need a goddamn movie to realize this? How is this acclaimed? I am genuinely asking - how is this acclaimed?!

If this is any indicator of what is coming in Blade Runner 2046 then I need to bring my hype to zero levels because if it has this kind of atrocious pacing and one note Gosling of OGF it will make me want to kill myself.

Also Amy Adams - yeah, we're done here. Between this and Nocturnal Animals she needs to drop out of Sharp Objects because her playing the lead will kill this project. She has zero charisma. Zero. None. She cannot carry a movie. She needs to stick to the supporting roles where her blandness won't be this noticeable. Keira Knightley in Imitation Game. That's a beautiful, subtle work. Amy Adams doesn't act. She just is. Not in a sense of 'becomes' but in a sense of 'stands there doing nothing'.

Yeah, Moonlight. It was fine. It was well made. I gave it 7/10. Is this really our Golden Globe Best Drama winner? You know what I kept thinking for the last 2/3 of it? "That Ali guy is coming back, right? I mean he is winning Oscar for it". Yeah...he didn't. No one from this deserves separate acting nominations.

No, seriously, take a moment - this guy is winning for Moonlight the award that not even Ralph Fiennes for Schindler's List got. I know competition varies every year but an Oscar is an Oscar. Compare these two performances. Do it.

So is my baby getting kidnapped or what? Tinkerbell and Gustav will not be separated!

La La Land fans - beware, for I am seeing it on Sunday. That one unlike Arrival I am not hyped for, so at least it has this going for it. It cannot possibly be as mediocre as I imagine it to be...or can it?

The 193 minute long movie I saw that I mentioned was The Right Stuff which told the story of Mercury 7, including John Glenn. The film was longer than it needed to be but unlike 83 minutes shorter Arrival it was not boring. It was also insanely well made - this was made in 1983 and the space stuff was actually more impressive than in Hidden Figures which was made 33 years later and showed the same launch. I of course saw it to witness Ed Harris as John Glenn and he was just wonderful in this role. This may be the sweetest of his characters (however he was just adorable in Buffalo Soldiers and Milk Money, I'll get to the latter in a moment), though there was a signature Ed Harris is yelling moment in this (but he was yelling on behalf of his wife so the 'aw' sounds were made by me plenty). And Zooey and Emily Deschanel's mother played his wife in that!

I saw Hidden Figures right after Arrival and I really liked it. It probably benefited in comparison, you know, since it actually had a plot and a pulse. This of course meant that I saw John Glenn (here played by Scream Queens' awesome Glenn Powell) orbit flight twice in two days. The film literally showed the same moment in history, just from different perspective, which made for a very cool double feature. The cast was great (Kevin Costner really should be getting more awards attention for this and Adams having a shot instead of Henson...where are OscarsSoWhite people when you need them? This basic bitch wandered around the screen for 2h while Henson truly shone in this) and the film was very moving.

On Monday I rewatched A Beautiful Mind, even though I really don't like this one. I livetweeted it in a calm, reasonable and not at all inappropriate manner:

You can really see what a pitiful year for supporting actors we have now at awards when you watch Jennifer Connelly's outstanding performance. She had like 5 different possible Oscar clips in this movie. She had more moving, amazing stuff there than Ali, Harris, Kick Ass and Adams have in their entire screentime. Combined. This is the weakest year since I became interested in film, so in 16 years. Original score category is a mess this year too. I find A Beautiful Mind to be overly dramatic, cheesy and manipulative movie but the cast and the music really bring it far above mediocrity.

On Tuesday following Steven's recommendation I watched Just Cause.

First of all, patience is often times rewarded:

And second of all, wow did Ed play a psycho in this. His weird haircut and accent (what the hell was that?!) aside I was drinking tea during this and at one point he suddenly shouted. Tea everywhere. Different kind of wet during Ed Harris movie this time around.

Oh is it TMI?

Don't.

Care.

Take your Moonlights and your Arrivals because there are actually only two movies I wanna talk to you about this week (yeah this is one long RF today but most of you just witnessed inauguration from Hell so you can take comfort in the fact that at least you are not a pervy, should be locked away person with a terrible job and a clear, desperate need of an actual man, like me):

On Wednesday I couldn't find a better contrast to Just Cause if I tried with Milk Money where he played a shy, sweet science teacher who was a single dad. I tweeted this during the movie and I find it to be a gross negligence from you guys that no one called for help. I was dying. Melanie Griffith played this hooker and three young boys befriended her and Ed played the dad of one of them and he fell in love with the hooker and in the end she stayed with them.

Oh God. My life sucks in comparison to this.

The above gifset is mine. I have new thing that I do - making edits of Ed. There is not enough of him on tumblr and there are like 5 other girls who have impeccable taste and find him scorching hot. So all the Ed gifs in this post are mine. I also gifed the most beautiful moment in cinematic history.

The other movie I saw that I need you guys to become aware of was State of Grace. It's kinda like The Departed from 1990. It has Sean Penn, Gary Oldman and Ed. And Ed - and let me just take a deep breath as I am about to type this - plays an Irish crime boss.

I'm gonna type this again - he plays an Irish crime boss.

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My God. I was like 'please shoot me, sir' the entire time.

How the hell do I hear about a movie featuring aimless Adams gazing into horizon and huge aliens for 3 months but the only way I become aware of a treasure of a movie like this one is when I wander onto his imdb in heat of 'what to see tonight?'

Tonight I plan on finishing Sweet Dreams. I will actually rewatch all of it so prepare yourselves for some sad, horny tweets. From what I've seen it's Ed's best performance and it's circa 1985 so he is 35 years old in it. It's divine stuff.

Also I saw about an hour of Pain and Gain last night so I will finish it tonight. It's pretty funny so far.

I still haven't see episode 2 of Taboo. Having seen 5 Ed Harris movies this week alone it just seemed if I did, that would be basically committing suicide because no way I can survive them both in one week.

And now a dash of of what passes for news and gossip around here:

We have our first look at Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis and Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford in Feud. This is gonna be so good!

I really cannot with how much hotBrad has found ever since throwing that fucking psycho skeleton away. This is gotta be driving her crazy.

Fucking hell!!!!!!

Margot Robbiewants that Oscar. But not enough to actually go up few sizes and the fat suit will have to do.

I'm more shocked about the fact that Rob Schneider is still alive than the dumb shit he did.

Brittani reviews Jackie, which I still have to see.

Keith chooses best supporting actor performances in 2016. I love that he featured Shannon and Costner.

Allie reviews Assassin's Creed and features a certain piece of info that is the first thing I learned about the movie that makes me want to see it.

Ruth reviews lovely Hidden Figures

Alex chooses 15 best female performances of 2016, looking at his list maybe this year has not been this weak after all.

m.brown reviews Blair Witch - it's such a hilarious review, read it!

MettelRay writes about three movies starring three actors who passed away in 2016

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The Oscars have done a number of terrible things today - including awarding two nominations to Passengers - but it doesn't matter.

I had only two Oscar dreams today. And they both came true.

Bravo, Academy. Bravo for finally not awarding the mediocrity personified Amy Adams for doing nothing for yet another time in her career. Still, it would have been better if her terrible movie didn't score 8 (undeserved) nominations nor that the nomination for Best Actress went to Meryl Streep for her silly little Globes tirade (no one actually thinks it's just because of the performance, right?) but her missing out is glorious. Of course I cannot truly enjoy it because I keep seeing people whining about this 'snub'. How many times did someone get snubbed because of this basic blandness getting in? 2? 3? 4? 5?

Spare me the pity party - she has FIVE nominations. Five. Charlize Theron has 2. Ralph Fiennes has 2. Gary Oldman has 1. Ed Harris has 4. Ed Harris has one less nomination than this woman. During 40 years of his career. And if he won for either of his nominated performances, no one would complain. Because he is deserving. What if this chick won for American Hustle, huh?

It's an outrage. She doesn't deserve half of the nominations she actually got, so hallelujah. Never again, Academy. She is already the most overrated actress in the history of these awards and that's really saying something.

If there is one performance I truly loved in 2016 - yes, I truly love only one - to the point it would make me rewatch the movie (and that movie sucks) - it's Michael Shannonin Nocturnal Animals. We saw HFPA make another ridiculous decision by giving not just a nomination but a win to Kick Ass so Shannon actually getting nominated is a fantastic surprise. Shannon is of course not winning, since he is a white man (go on, tell me Ali would still win if this year didn't follow last year OscarsSoWhite hysterics), but it's still nice he got nominated. His performance carries that film and I cannot wait to watch his scenes again. Shannon is one of those actors who never gives bad performances. He is consistently amazing. And Man of Steel doesn't count because I'm convinced he just consciously went full on camp because he knew what a disaster the film is going to be anyways.

I have no favorites in this race - Jackie is the movie I admired and Shannon's is the performance I love but there is no chance he is winning. I didn't love any of 2016 Oscar movies like I loved Gravity, Birdman or Fury Road, to just name my winners of the recent years. In 2016 no actress was as fierce as Theron as Furiosa and no one was as breathtaking as Fassbender in Shame. I'm not rooting for anyone in particular but seeing those surprises made me so happy because it's so rare when the Academy actually surprises in a fun way.

And I haven't seen his movie but fuck, yeah Viggo Mortensen, baby!
Also holy hell Reynolds must be BAD at giving head...

(260) Damsel no more + links

Westworld 1x06 The Adversary

(261) Let's have some fun + links

Westworld 1x07 Trompe L'Oeil

(262) and the Niffler steals the show + links

Westworld 1x08 Trace Decay

(263) RUN + links

Ed Harris Appreciation

Westworld 1x09 The Well-Tempered Clavier

(264) Hello, Dolores + links

Westworld 1x10 The Bicameral Mind

(265) Tuxpocalypse + links

(266) Stay calm and look into the Magnificent Blue + links

(267) Merry Xmas! + links

Nocturnal Animals

(268) Begone 2016 + links

(269) Black Mirror + links

(270) La La Globes + links

(271) Take your Arrivals and take your Moonlights + links

The Academy actually did something right this year! Twice!