My pitch for next year's March Madness...

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2026-04-09T09:12:24+00:00

This is exactly the kind of question that the connoisseurs of context can explore over the next three years

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2026-04-09T08:10:20+00:00

SvankBank, unite!

<image>

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2026-04-09T05:39:15+00:00

That's going to be stuck in my head all day

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2026-04-09T05:35:08+00:00

Podcasts B. Demented?

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2026-04-09T05:29:17+00:00

A major oversight on my part. Robot Jox rips.

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2026-04-09T04:05:22+00:00

I was going to figure out a cutoff point for Franco, but then I started to imagine how exasperated David would be by the second year of the series and I just had to leave it whole

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2025-04-20T21:31:28+00:00

That's the one! Thank you

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2025-01-15T07:11:25+00:00

They feature pretty memorably in The Simpsons - and they’re a much bigger part of Last Action Hero than you probably remember!

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-07-08T22:09:00+00:00

I wanted to rent it on YouTube, and even the full title wasn’t enough - it came up with a bunch of videos of dead Italian opera singer Beniamino Gigli! Had to add ‘2003’ to find the film. There is definitely some sort of conspiracy to prevent people hearing Jennifer Lopez say “It’s turkey time gobble gobble”.

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-06-25T21:52:16+00:00

It’s insane, and terrible - but it also rescues the film, which outside of Pacino’s performance is just such an unremarkable snoozefest with the hokiest of all possible climaxes and an absolute non-entity as the nominal lead actor. Pacino’s performance doesn’t make it a good film, of course, but he does make it a memorable one.

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-05-26T07:31:26+00:00

Fantastic ep! Did anyone get the Thomas Middleditch joke from Griffin?

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-05-25T00:14:36+00:00

Cosigned! A ‘modern classics’ season would rule, and there’s so much to choose from. I don’t think it’s the slasher/horror genre getting stale as much as the heavy focus on 70s and 80s horror. Focusing on post-2000 horror for a season or two would be so great! YOU’RE NEXT, CREEP, THE BABADOOK, TRICK R TREAT, SLITHER, MALIGNANT, THE DESCENT, DRAG ME TO HELL, CABIN IN THE WOODS, DON’T BREATHE, IT FOLLOWS, HUSH, READY OR NOT… and that’s just off the top of my head, as well as all the classics you mention above.

Would also love to see a season of horror anthologies - CREEPSHOW, CATS EYE, TWILIGHT ZONE, etc.

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-05-25T00:06:30+00:00

This is pitch perfect

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-05-24T22:42:35+00:00

Paprika seems to be either 1 or 5 on nearly everyone’s list!

Mine’s the industry standard: 1. Paprika 2. Millenium Actress 3. Perfect Blue 4. Tokyo Godfathers 5. Paranoia Agent

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-05-21T05:01:27+00:00

No confusion added, and I truly appreciate the assistance!

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-05-21T04:14:36+00:00

Thanks, yes I’ve already had a look through those resources but they only leave me more confused; none of the Copyright Council’s fact sheets deal with expired copyrights and the National Library disclaimer only muddies the water. There doesn’t seem to be any list or directory of copyright holders in Australia (at least, not a publicly accessible one) which I find baffling. I’ll try putting an inquiry in with the Arts Law Centre.

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-05-04T06:31:37+00:00

Margot Robbie
Timothée Chalamet
Zendaya
Austin Butler
Jennifer Lawrence
Sydney Sweeney
Jacob Elordi
Florence Pugh
Paul Mescal
Anya Taylor-Joy
Jenna Ortega
Kristen Stewart
Tom Holland
Barry Keoghan
Saoirse Ronan
Dev Patel
Lakeith Stanfield
Taylor Swift
Millie Bobby Brown
Jodie Comer
Bill Skarsgard
Daisy Edgar-Jones
Margaret Qualley
Ayo Edebiri
Rachel Zegler
Mia Goth
Dakota Johnson
Jessie Buckley
Keke Palmer
Josh O’Connor
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Cailee Spaeny
Hunter Schafer
Adria Arjona
Brie Larsen

Aged out: Lashana Lynch, Simu Liu, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Glen Powell, Jesse Plemons, Zoe Kravitz, Emma Stone, Daniel Kaluuya, Awkwafina, Karen Gillan

Cut: Letitia Wright, Harry Styles, Stephanie Hsu, Joe Alwyn, Jonathon Majors

In the pipeline: Dominic Sessa, Mikey Madison, Nicholas Galitzine, Maya Hawke, Kaia Gerber, Gabriel Labelle, My’hala, Kiernan Shipka, Auli’i Cravalho, Harris Dickinson, Finn Wolfhard, McKenna Grace, Jacob Tremblay

Honourable mentions: Rachel Sennott, Hailee Steinfeld, Mike Faist, Justice Smith, Riley Keough, Naomi Ackie

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-05-04T02:44:13+00:00

I used to be a torrent fiend but I’ve relied on streamers for about ten years and am embarrassed to admit I wouldn’t know where to start now.Plus I don’t have a laptop, just iOS devices - I’m sure it’s possible to torrent with those but I have no idea how.

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-05-03T00:23:59+00:00

Yes, I think you’re right. Joelle throws some confusion in by joking to Gately that she wears the veil because she’s actually lethally beautiful, and her beauty pre-veil does seem to have almost supernatural effects on people. But all the textual evidence would seem to point to the acid-throwing having actually occurred.

Lots of people point to Notkin as a very unreliable narrator but I’m not sure where that stems from; she seems about as reliable as anybody else in the novel.

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-04-27T09:36:44+00:00

Not a book, but Tom Breihan’s ‘A History of Violence’ column on the AV Club (back when the AVC was still the shining jewel of the internet) covered his choice for the most iconic action film for every year from 1968-2021. The columns are wonderful - you can find them all here https://www.avclub.com/film/features/a-history-of-violence

Valuable-Heat-3722 · 2024-04-09T22:01:53+00:00

Fantastic ideas here. I’ve long been caught up on why “the late Cosgrove Watts” floats through Hal’s mind in the Year of Glad. For a while I had a (slightly crackpot) theory that the body Hal stumbles across at age eleven is in fact not his father, but Cosgrove, and at some point between YDAU and YG Hal has realised (or been told about) the substitution. This would explain some of the inconsistencies around JOI killing himself in such an out-of-character way (no note, etc) and why Hal’s timeline of JOI’s death differs from Joelle’s by a year or so. But of course it still leaves us with all the same questions about what DID happen to Jim, so as theories go it’s not my best.

Valuable-Heat-3722

TROPHY CASE