What I liked about La La Land was that it kind pof took the opposite approach of most musicals - instead of using music and dance to pack more emotion into a storyline, for example, they used spectacular visuals to pack more emotion into the music. I enjoyed it but I've had no desire to rewatch it and I don't actually remember much about it now.

They did not earn the musical numbers at all. I hate having conversations with musical haters who are always like "I don't understand why they just start singing and dancing all of a sudden it is so stupid" but this movie completely felt like that to me. The musical numbers almost entirely came out of nowhere and added little. I haven't seen every movie musical from the fifties or anything and it's possible that many of them do seem this random, but I feel like the ones that have stood the test of time at least make the musical numbers feel integral to the story in some way, or at least START that way.

The James Bond film No Time to Die, which was supposed to open in April, and for which tickets are already on sale, has been pushed back to November.

It seems like the studio is concerned about what kind of impact Covid-19 will have on their bottom line.

Where was the coronavirus when they were getting ready to release Cats?!?

Birds of Prey was so much fun!

My only issue as a Batfamily fan is THAT IS NOT CASS CAIN. Like, the character was fine; she just needed a different name because HOLY SHIT CASS CAIN IS NOT A PICKPOCKET SHE IS A TRAINED ASSASSIN AND MY BATGIRL. ita would back me up 100% on that. She was a huge Cass Cain fan.

I miss when Ewan McGregor whipped his dick out in every movie he was in. IJS.

I wondered about that (Cass Cain) when I heard the name. Literally all I know about the character is what I have picked up here, so I wasn't sure that wasn't part of her backstory somehow...

Also, every time I see the trailer for Wonder Woman 1984, I get more excited to see it.

Steph, Gail Simone agrees with you.

I like her, she's fun to watch, the actress is adorable (Ella Jay Basco) is great in the role. But she bears no resemblance to Cass. I don't think of it as an insult so much as a missed opportunity.

Steph, Gail Simone agrees with you.

Vindication! I did like the character; she just needed a different name.

I finally saw Yesterday today, on the assumption that I'd like it fine because I love alternate-timeline stories and Kate McKinnon, and because my dad is self-isolating alone in a large home and feeling sad and restless and I thought he'd like it. I liked it much more than I'd expected to--have a feeling it's going to become one of my comfort-food movies (pretty much everything Kate McKinnon has been in ends up on that list, and this is no exception).

Plus, bonus Lamorne Morris! I will take more of him when and wherever I can get him, and if Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle ever want to do a loopy buddy comedy with him and Kate McKinnon I would be all over it (especially if it somehow also involves cats; we already know Kate is utterly devoted to her cat husband and that Lamorne can do entire lengthy scenes with a cat as his only scene partner with heartbreaking sincerity).

I was just utterly charmed by all the performances, and there were little grace notes that I loved and one twist that I only twigged to about 5 seconds before the reveal that brought me to totally unexpected tears.

I think this falls under PMoon's "If you like this kind of thing, this is just the kind of thing you'll like" rubric, but as it turns out it is just the kind of thing I like.