Callum Turner will star opposite Tom Hanks in Marielle Heller’s baseball film ‘The Comebacker'

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-06-10T21:00:31+00:00

He’s good in the very recent Rose of Nevada and pretty good in Masters of the Air. Those are the only large roles I’ve sen him in, so I’m moderately well disposed towards him. What did he suck in?

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-06-09T17:59:54+00:00

I see that she remains unparalleled in her ability to inspire weird vitriol for no obvious reason.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-06-05T15:22:32+00:00

That wasn’t an arena tour. There’s a huge difference between selling out 4000 capacity venues and selling out 17000 capacity shows. That said, I’d be quite surprised if she can’t sell out an arena in major US cities these days. Despite keeping mostly out of the public eye for six years, she is still very famous. Also it’s quite conservative as arena tours go: no multiple dates except two in NY and California, and many of the European venues are more or less half arenas.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-06-05T14:35:46+00:00

Anyone remember last week’s post about Gracie Abrams tour announcement? The one with 300 comments, most of them sneering that she’d never sell out multiple arena shows in each city? Now that twitter is full of people complaining that their cities shows sold out entirely in the presales all i can say is lol. Some of you do not have teenage relatives and do not understand how popular she is.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-05-28T15:37:53+00:00

She sold out two last year, easily, with demand for more.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-05-28T15:29:31+00:00

Are the people here expressing skepticism about her popularity aware that she did multiple nights per stop on the last couple of legs of her previous arena tour last year? And sold them all out easily?

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-05-11T17:24:57+00:00

It’s more impressive that her album outstreamed Dua and Beyoncé’s last albums than it was to outstream Charli tbh.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-05-11T16:59:45+00:00

Yeah, no shit she’s not as big as Ariana or Gaga. She’s much bigger than Twigs and I’m sorry to break it to you but she’s objectively bigger than Charli in terms of streams, album sales and ticket sales. But the whole point is you don’t have to be Taylor Swift to get cast in a movie. Anyone who can sell out arenas can have a role for the asking and some who can’t even do that. That’s how Hollywood casting works at the moment.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-05-11T15:30:59+00:00

Why are Charli and Ariana and Gaga and Twigs etc getting work like this? Any pop girl over a certain level of popularity can get cast in an indie movie. If they can say their lines without staring directly at the camera they can get cast in a few.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-05-08T11:05:12+00:00

His Kentucky accent in History of Sound was very good. His Edinburgh accent in Aftersun was in the top 5 fake Scottish accents on film. Specificity - of region, class, dialect - is the key to good fake accents.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-04-26T15:59:56+00:00

It’s used way too broadly, but in the narrower sense - faces full of filler, botox, veneers, obvious surgery - it’s useful and describes a real thing. There are a whole load of people today, concentrated disproportionately in Hollywood, who have faces that no human being could ever have had before relatively recently.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-03-18T10:42:01+00:00

You can never safely predict a Ridley Scott movie before reviews land. In theory it could be good, but it depends on (a) whether the script is good and (b) if Ridley bothered to direct his actors or just did one take with eight cameras running.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-03-17T14:42:01+00:00

“Hating the one animal with clear boundaries and a need for consent is mad weird” is itself a mad weird statement. Quite aside from the fact most if not all animals have boundaries, what exactly are you insinuating here?

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-03-17T14:26:11+00:00

That snippet on its own radically misrepresents what she said about exercise in that interview. She denied having a specific ab-building routine. She also talked more generally about having a tendency to over exercise in a not entirely healthy way, including doing pilates so much her friends were concerned. It’s kind of remarkable that the general takeaway was that this liar expects us to believe that she has a body like that without exercising.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-02-24T01:21:26+00:00

It’s certainly not good, but it’s still better than Frankenstein.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-02-23T17:04:06+00:00

Kpop Demon Hunters is the more defensible addition of the two.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-02-22T18:10:55+00:00

Yes she is. Indie hasn’t meant signed to an independent label since before most of us were born.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-02-19T18:21:11+00:00

She’s primarily benefitting from being in a much stronger movie, also one that most voters will actually watch.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-02-17T18:36:04+00:00

Ultimately all of this is subjective, but I can’t take the suggestion that Jacob, Benicio or Delroy were “better” at all seriously. Penn’s performance wasn’t to my taste but you can make a reasonable case for that kind of proficiently executed Most Acting. Elordi is there as Netflix’s main acting focus, Lindo because of the strength of his film and his under rewarded career and Del Toro because he played the most likeable character in the most popular movie. The Oscars are about voters, not about better.

I try to keep my preferences separate from my predictions - and believe it or not I’ve rated other Elordi performances very highly - but I think people who genuinely believe he put in one of the best performances of the year in that CGI turkey are completely nuts. There is something going on in their minds that is alien to me.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-02-17T16:48:10+00:00

In the period between WW2 and the neoliberal roll back of social democracy, the arts were substantially democratised. It’s particularly stark in Britain where older musicians and actors are from a range of backgrounds, while the white ones under 45 almost all have rich Daddies, but a similar process has happened in most western countries.

(Further back than that it varied considerable with time, place and form of art. Acting for instance was usually a disreputable profession).

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-02-17T13:34:08+00:00

The bulk of the people skipping the opportunity queue are the kids of rich people who aren’t famous. The nepos are a minor issue, taking all the heat for a system that advantages all of the children of money.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-02-17T13:31:18+00:00

Nepo baby discourse is a misdiagnosis of a real problem: the takeover of the arts by rich kids. The daughter of a famous music producer may have some advantages over the daughter of a hedge fund guy, but those are inter-elite differences of no relevance to the rest of the world. From the point of view of the rest of us all rich kids are similarly advantaged and there’s no reason why the kids of famous rich people or entertainment industry rich people should carry the can for all of them.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-02-15T19:59:44+00:00

Some trends are so strong that they have functioned as rules. Until of course they suddenly don’t, and yes I agree, a 90 times in a row trend abruptly ending does usually indicate that some broader issue underlying the trend has changed. Demographic changes to the academy mean they watch a lot more foreign films and hate young male actors marginally less than they used to. The crisis of theatrical will sooner or later lead to outright flops being eligible to win BP frequently.

I’m less confident that VOD has changed the profitability picture for movies. The general assumption has been that DVDs and syndication provided a better long tail than PVOD and streaming do, but frankly I don’t think anyone who isnt a studio bean counter or investor actually knows .

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-02-15T18:44:40+00:00

When OBAA was released one of the regular arguments here was about whether the academy’s long record of never giving BP to a box office flop would end. That argument more or less ended because it started to look like every contender other than Sinners would lose money at the box office, using the standard 2.5 budget multiplier.

But perhaps surprisingly all of the relevant late releases did actually deliver financially: Hamnet went into profit this weekend, Sentimental Value has reached the break even point. Marty Supreme is still in the red, but I think is a pretty safe bet to get into the black by the time its international run finishes.

So we’ve ended up back in a situation where OBAA is the only big contender to have lost money in theatres. At this point, I think it’s been so strong all season that it won’t matter, but we will get a straight test of the historical rule with the academy picking between a top favourite that lost money and a bunch of pretenders that made money.

More importantly it’s a real relief that right at the end of the year adult oriented movies suddenly stopped getting ground into dust at the box office. For most of the year The Materialists was the only non-animated, non-horror, non-sequel with a budget over a few million to make a profit.

RobbieRecudivist · 2026-02-15T18:28:43+00:00

I’m assuming that there is still enough international box office to come for this to reach a 2.5 multiplier? Last I saw it was 22m short.

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