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I saw this in a theatre seated in front of a row of tween girls similar in age to the protagonist, and while I generally despise people talking during movies, listening to their earnest chatter about the events onscreen was the absolute best way to watch this while outside the target audience. They were really into the film. Best use of "Son of a Preacher Man" on film since Tarantino.

Why? Cosmo is the character in the comics, that's pretty straightforward.

They changed the character's gender in reference to Laika.

In the real world, sure, but in story terms, at a certain point from my perspective there's only so many coincidences you can pile up before it moves past being plausible. Some of the things Lottie has seen, like guessing the baby's sex, aren't all that meaningful to me, but others like the death of Laura Lee are in a different echelon. And then there's whatever's going on with Taissa, which at this point is way past any sort of actual real-world psychology.

Contrived in the sense that at this point I think there are way too many separate instances, some of them extremely on-point, to wave it off as coincidental.

Personally, I think that's unlikely. This is most likely building up to them going back to the wilderness to confront whatever is there.

At this point, trying to say that there was never anything supernatural going on with Lottie and it was all coincidence would be extremely contrived.

The Canadian tour of Stars on Ice is getting underway. Also, Kurt and Alissa got a magazine cover up here. This being his farewell tour is getting a fair bit of media.

Midge's indifference to parenting her kids has been a running joke among fans pretty much since the show started, though.

The opening had me momentarily wondering if I had clicked on the wrong show icon, but that opens up some really exciting possibilities for what we might see this season.

With the strength and depth in the Korean women’s field, it’s been a long time coming for one of them to get on the World podium again, and ten years after Yuna’s final gold they managed it. Lee Hae-in was a standout as a junior who struggle a bit at the senior level, so I was very pleased at this for her.

The "Everything bagel" is a goofy pun, pretty emblematic of the film's approach, hardly what I'd call pretentious.

The comics, etc. are also full of events that would logically have far greater implications than would ever be shown on-page; that also applies to the films pre-Endgame.

I thought this was okay. Very obviously imitating Zodiac at points.

This just debuted at SXSW, and the reception has been fairly positive. Big screen studio comedy is dicey as a commercial proposition these days, so hope for the best. I especially hope for good things for Lim in her directorial debut, after the pay controversy that saw her leave the Crazy Rich Asians sequel.

That song is "Every Letter" from the 2021 musical drama Cyrano; the entire sequence is a direct parody of the equivalent scene in the movie.

While Evelyn does try to protect Joy, their relationship at the start of the movie is in a bad place and her unaccepting attitude toward Joy (which is translated into metaphor in the Alpha Universe where Alpha-Evelyn literally breaks Alpha-Joy's brain to create Jobu) is what creates the whole threat. Telling Joy that she wants to be with her exactly as she is is emotional payoff. Unrelatedly, quite a dominating performance by the film at the SAG Awards. Such a great moment for James Hong, who spent so many years toiling in an industry that was never going to give him a fair shake.

The Pact were really generically brutal adversaries in the first season, so these developments give them a lot more thematic heft (basically they're Russia in the middle of their civil war).

A really wonderful film. The stripped down use of "Under Pressure" is something that sticks with you.

Though ironically, half the teams in the final group will not be at the World Championships.

With the Ratajkowski answer, I guess we've set the precedent that they will accept the person's Instagram handle.

A really interesting film. Deliberately excessive to the point that it has obviously turned off some people, but there are a few sequences here that rate among the best things Chazelle has ever done -- the first attempt at filming a scene with recorded sound being my favourite.

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro fulfills a longstanding desire to remake Akira Kurosawa's 1952 classic Ikiru, transferring the setting to England in the same timeframe, with Bill Nighy inheriting Takashi Shimura's lead role as a jaded civil servant jolted out of his staid existence by a cancer diagnosis. The transferred social context is an obvious fit for Ishiguro, given there are some similarities to The Remains of the Day. Nighy, conversely, is playing a bit against the type audiences have come to expect from him, but he's also excellent. I was also really impressed by Aimee Lou Wood, in the role of his sympathetic subordinate. Tom Burke, from The Souvenir, also makes an impression.

From the Euros RD, I do love that the Taschlers' RD is choreographed with basically no regard for them being siblings. Shakira + Enrique Iglesias. Britschgi, the Swiss champion, having the performance of his life and getting the bronze medal in men's was great.

Full credit to Nico Parker (Thandiwe Newton's daughter!), who had a big impact in a small role that needed to have a big impact in order to propel the series.