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.

I really liked it too, JZ. My favorite scene was when he tries to play "Let It Be" for his parents.

My favorite scene was when he tries to play "Let It Be" for his parents.

Everyone who has ever tried to show their parents something important and meaningful while their parents are totally absorbed in being, well, themselves, can identify.

It was a completely charming movie. Good idea for comfort food as needed.

Loved that movie.

I loved Yesterday. It was an utterly charming little film.

I watched Doctor Sleep with DH last night. I never liked The Shining so this was a bit of a stretch for me. While I liked the young girl protagonist, I just found it so ridiculously full of plot holes and hand waving. And minimal nods to Kubrick and Nicholson.

I am making my silly Movie Google Docs semi-public if anyone wants some structure to a movie watching project. Of course just watching what is comfortable is always a great choice. This messy spreadsheet documents Oscar nominees for several years and which ones I watched and then has a tab with 1971-2017 Best Picture nominees and then another tab with 1970 - 2001 10 highest grossing films per year.

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I've been wondering if we should do some sort of group watch thing.

In theory I'm still doing my Century Plus of Cinema project, but it stalled somewhat due to my work schedule in February and now, with the Math Greek here, it is not really feasible to be mainlining silent movies from the 1910s and 20s. (In fact, he has a maddening tendency to want to watch things that are not part of the plan, or freely available, at all.)

Right now, I'm trying to keep us focused on what is expiring from Criterion at the end of the month, which is mostly the Burt Lancaster and Danny Kaye collections. The Court Jester anyone?