Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut, Blink Twice, has a trailer. I’m surprised that this looks… well done? Interesting? It’s different than I thought it would be. [LaineyGossip]
Jennifer Aniston will produce a remake of 9 to 5?? Stop, NO. [JustJared]
John Waters shares his thoughts on David Lynch. [OMG Blog]
SCOTUS is probably going to curtain abortion access even further. [Jezebel]
I grew up in an era of 22-episode seasons and I agree, there should be a revival of that kind of television. Like, how the hell did The West Wing do it?? [Pajiba]
Oh for goodness sake, this laundry-ADHD story is ridiculous. [Buzzfeed]
Emma Stone denies calling Jimmy Kimmel a “pr-ck.” [Socialite Life]
Elisabeth Moss chats about her latest project. [Hollywood Life]
White Castle is embracing Harold & Kumar. [Seriously OMG]
Regina King looks gorgeous here. [RCFA]
I am so intrigued by the Blink Twice trailer! I wasn’t sure what to expect…but I’m actually kind of anticipating it now?
I was immediately reminded of Rebel Wilson’s story about the billionaire party she was invited to. Looks like this movie is based in reality.
When it was first announced Zoe Kravitz was making this movie a year or 2 ago????, I was like finally, someone is making a movie about The Playground of the Gods book by Cathy Cash Spellman. I own/have read that book. The Playground of the Gods movie got squashed. CCS’s potential movie was kicked to the curb in the ’90’s.
https://www.cathycashspellman.com/books/the-playground-of-the-gods/
Watch the video in the link. Tea. Quiet tea. I’m totally watching this movie multiple times. Love that Simon Rex is in it. If people don’t remember, Simon Rex was offered at least 70,000 pounds by 2 different BM papers to lie and say he had s*x with Meghan. He refused.
Interesting! That link about the book makes me want to read/see it. I didn’t really get the premise from the trailer — which I think is common these days, trailers either tell nothing or everything lol.
“Without full season orders… Buffy never loses her voice”
That right there should be enough to convince studios to back full seasons. That episode, “Hush”, was so freaking brilliant that it has haunted me (in the best possible ways) for literal decades.
Anyway, I wholeheartedly encourage y’all to read that Pajiba article.
Agreed! Old school 22-24 episode seasons would be amazing again, even if split into spring/fall portions. As a longtime Outlander fan, I admit that I lost interest in the show simply because the producers take years to make a 10-episode season and finally launch it. There doesn’t have to be a big, serious meaning in every episode–the “filler” ones are sometime the most interesting. (And yet we can’t escape the juggernaut that is Law & Order, even if we wanted to….) Bring back the traditional, classic TV Season!
Hush & Forget are two of the most brilliantly written tv episodes of all time.
I don’t get how they would remake “9 to 5.” The working world is so different from what it was 45 years ago.
File this remake under “no one was asking for this” and move on. I like Jennifer Aniston So much more when she goes away.
Honestly I don’t think things have changed that much
Yeah….
I once worked for a company that only had one supervisor last for more than a year. She was bloody incompetent, but would sleep with anything that moved, including her direct boss (and his best friend who also worked there). Anyone who did not participate in the pill popping, booze soaked unprofessional atmosphere (and didn’t need to be hauled immediately to rehab) was tormented. 9 to 5 is still relevant. The abusers just abuse the system in different ways.
Was “Blink Twice” formerly known as “P*ssy Island” or am I imagining things?
I wonder if T Swift was at the premiere…
You’re 100% correct – and with such a ridiculous title I was prepared to hate the finished product.
But that trailer has peaked my interest, and the title Blink Twice is sooo much better.
Thank you @angryjayne ! I agree that “Blink Twice” is a much better title although part of me was thrilled by the audacity of the original title for a first project! I will definitely see this.
Why is the ADHD laundry story ridiculous? People with ADHD have profound impairment in the executive function. Our brains do not put things in order and they also stop us from doing tasks. Having ADHD makes life 100x harder. Have some empathy/compassion
Agree!
Agreed
ADHD & autistic here.
Executive dysfunction is real.
It’s not “oh look a squirrel!” either.
The inability to do things is real.
Take making bread. Some days, I can no problem. The next, I physically cannot move the mixer let alone gather ingredients. I just can’t. I’m not lazy. I just cannot do it.
I can do any else BUT that. So talking the steps out loud helps, some days.
Of course it’s not ridiculous. But those of us that struggle know how harshly we’re judged.
Came here to say this as well, while many people without ADHD might experience issues with laundry for multitude of reasons, for those who do have it, these issues can cause an extreme pile up of shame, avoidance and paralysis…as I’m sitting on my bed full of clothing and two piles that I have yet to tackle.
No, that Buzzfeed story IS ridiculous, they story is like “if you put semi-dirty clothes on a chair, you might have ADHD” and “if you don’t put away your laundry immediately, you probably have ADHD.”
@Kaiser
Being diagnosed later is life is a terrifying, tedious, & heartbreaking experience. It’s a long road to understanding why life is so different for us than others.
But it doesn’t start with knowing. It starts with reading articles, watching clips, scrolling Twitter & Facebook. Like that. We start to see ourselves when others share their experiences.
We find a sense of commonality, community, acceptance, that wasn’t there before.
So for some, they will see themselves in that article & it might just spark a “omg I’m not horrible, I’m not crazy, I’m not lazy, I wonder if it could be me in that too”
So you start reading more, exploring what it all means. And sometimes it’s just “I hate laundry”, & others, like me, it’s an epiphany that leads to diagnosis that leads to learning to love ourselves despite the decades of being told how much we lack.
That’s my experience, & only mine. Believe me, no one wants to be trendy & claim adhd, autism. Being ND. It’s not a cure all moment. It’s reliving lifelong trauma & mourning what might have been if only it was discussed when we were small, so at lest we’d have known we weren’t terrible people.
Blink Twice was shot here in the Yucatán. Looks good.
There’s something about the Blink Twice trailer that reminds me of a movie called The Invitation. I’m looking forward to see this when it’s out
John Waters sounds so delightful speaking about David Lynch. Elisabeth Moss, I enjoyed starting with Top of the Lake, but I have a hard time reconciling her strong female performances and her Scientology, especially all the lies and actively participating in disconnection. I guess it could be overcompensation in one to even out the other.
There are plenty of women who are bold and confident in their work lives and then go sit inside a Christian Church on Sundays, hear gossip about what Pastor and the Leadership are doing (without challenging it) and faithfully tithe each week.
E.M. was raised in Scientology. It definitely seems ridiculous to us as outsiders, but it’s not that different from what many others do in navigating their own religions.
Actually, the ADHD laundry thing isn’t ridiculous. I actually sent it to my husband and cried because I always thought I was an unorganized idiot for doing that very thing. Being diagnosed with ADHD at 40 is life changing.