Caroline Siede
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Film & TV critic | Co-host @RoleCalling podcast | Expert grocery shopper | She/her | Girl Culture:
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"Give me your tired, your poor,
your unfairly maligned female characters yearning to be defended."
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23-year-old Ariana Grande is showing more dignity & grace in the face of terrorism than the 70-year-old man supposedly leading the free word
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Samwell: My dog, Pongo?
Daenerys: Run over by a carriage.
Samwell: My goldfish, Goldie?
Daenerys: Eaten by the cat.
Samwell: My cat?
Daenerys: Choked on the goldfish.
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Jace flying to Winterfell and immediately getting a Jon Snow glow-up is hilarious
#HouseoftheDragon
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IDK. “Daenerys’ cold reaction to the murder of her abusive brother foreshadowed her turn to madness” is weird analysis of a show where Tyrion strangled his girlfriend to death and we’re supposed to see him as a lovable hero.
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Have there ever been worse blockbuster characters than Owen Grady and Claire Dearing? Not an ounce of chemistry or a single likable personality trait between them.
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So Hillary bringing up Spielberg's Lincoln may have sounded silly, but that's *literally* what she was talking about in the speech.
#Debate
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If Joaquin wins the Oscar, the character of the Joker will have more acting Oscars (2) than women have directing Oscars (1).
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Whenever a "which bad movie do you secretly love?" post goes around, at least half of the answers are legitimately great movies we've been taught to devalue because they're aimed at women.
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One thing I really appreciate about Hawkeye is that it's treating Black Widow's death like it mattered, in a way that neither Endgame nor her own literal solo film managed to do.
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I appreciate Seth Rogen calling out the crowded indoor setting of the Emmys, both because I was thinking it and because it’s now funny to watch the show scramble to course correct the narrative.
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When the superhero movie era is over, let’s have another swashbuckling revival.
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Chadwick Boseman on the red carpet shouting “Wakanda forever!” has already made this the best Oscars ever.
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Tired: Putting James Corden in every movie musical
Wired: Putting James *Marsden* in every movie musical
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Aaron Sorkin thinks his greatest skill is writing socio-political commentary, but actually it’s writing friends who are having a fight.
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My aesthetic is DC heroines freaking out about ice cream.
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I just realized that all of Zac Efron’s movie musicals involve him playing a gifted showman fighting to be in a socially unacceptable relationship.
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Wow. Just look at all the diverse female stories Star Wars has told over the years. Truly every shade of brunette has been represented.
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I’m also genuinely very worried about this “everyone is outraged by an out-of-context idea summed up in a snappy but slightly misleading headline” cycle we keep finding ourselves in on Twitter.
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In our rush to categorize everything as either “perfect” or “the worst,” we’re losing the ability to discuss the complicated nuances of reality. A lot of things — most in fact — are both good and bad!
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Give Kerry Washington a comedy Emmy for this line delivery alone.
jimmy kimmel: I wish I could kiss you!
kerry washington: we don't want that, thank you
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ME: Tessa and Scott clearly have a Ginny/Harry thing going on. She used to have this massive one-sided crush on him, but now she's matured into this incredible woman and he's completely in love with her.
WAITER: Umm, I said "Can I take your order?"
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In case you think Hillary was pandering with that Hamilton reference, she's been supporting Lin since In The Heights
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I’m still not over the fact that Christopher Nolan’s kids saw Phantom Thread and then started calling their dad Mr. Woodcock.
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Anyway, that’s why everyone knows the true leads of the Jurassic World franchise are Dr. Henry Wu and Blue the raptor.
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But I’m also not sure that Indra Nooyi as an individual deserves to be thrown under the bus for acknowledging/discussing the realities of her industry in an interview about her job?
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Why is CNN discussing Tamir Rice's weight and height? A police officer murdered a 12-year-old child in 1.5 seconds. That's the story.
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Has it been long enough that we can talk about how exploitative and irresponsible the
#13ReasonsWhy
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I genuinely think 90% of the reason people turned on Chris Pratt is because of how ill-conceived/acted his Jurassic World performances are. To the point where I’m always shocked by how charming he still is in Marvel movies because this franchise tainted his image so much.
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How Trump happens:
1. White people are raised to fear POC.
2. Men are raised to devalue women.
3. Women are raised to hate other women.
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Other things Nooyi discusses in the interview: Growing up in India, being CEO in the middle of the financial crisis, the importance of young people sticking with STEM, and the way she drastically retooled the company to add a nutritional component to the brand.
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Yes, it’s super shitty that we live in a society that socializes men and women to act differently and that giant companies then utilize and encourage that in their marketing schemes.
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Tessa and Scott in a spotlight, skating to “This Is Me” while all the other Olympic figure skaters surround them is like a fever dream I had that somehow wound up on primetime TV.
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I love that the Game of Thrones dragons are either named like vikings (Vhagar, Balerion), mythic Greek war heroes (Caraxes, Syrax) or My Little Ponies (Seasmoke, Dreamfyre, Silverwing).
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My nightmare is being stuck in a house where Arie Luyendyk sits on the couch and refuses to leave.
#TheBachelor
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Hi. No one is making a “Lady Dorito.” Freakonimics interviewed Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi —one of the few women to run such a massive company—and specifically asked how her company approaches male and female consumers.
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Can’t wait for another Wonder Woman movie that makes zero reference to Diana’s beloved aunt and mentor who’s death introduced her to the very concept of mortality! Thank god she has this dude to motivate her instead.
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I try never to participate in the ~discourse~ around here, but this does seem like the right time to plug the fact that I spent four years writing a column about 100+ rom-coms across 80+ years of filmmaking history.
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Do other vaccinated people feel like they have absolutely no idea how they're supposed to be living right now? Maybe more so than any other moment in the pandemic, I have no idea what even constitutes "safe" and "risky" behavior anymore.
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In retrospect, I really think the main throughline of
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This on-ice interview he did with Tyler Oakley made me fall in love with Adam Rippon.
#Olympics
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Ron Cephas Jones’ last big scene on This Is Us was one of the most poignant, empathetic explorations of death I’ve ever seen.
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I opened my 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU retrospective by talking about Heath's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" scene, but I want to expand on that a little further because I think it's one of the best rom-com grand gestures ever.
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For those asking for examples, I write a whole column all about this phenomenon!
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That includes “Two Cathedrals,” which is just Jed having a fight with his friend God.
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Amy Adams came to the Oscars in her best "reminding your ex of what they lost" look.
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The “Julia Roberts tries to ruin a wedding” cinematic universe.
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It is absolutely wild, but also maybe in a weird way believable, that she faces zero consequences for the Jurassic World disaster.
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I already knew Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a perfect movie, but, wow, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a perfect movie.
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Spin-off series where Jonathan Groff from Mindhunter and Andrew Garfield from Under the Banner of Heaven go around soft-spokenly solving crimes together.
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Wrote about the radical female superhero costume design in BIRDS OF PREY (no hot pants! no catsuits!) and why it deserves an Oscar nomination.
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I don't know how I feel about all these new Pokémon.
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Commercial 1: Girls have to fight twice as hard to be taken seriously
Commercial 2: Men are heroes for doing basic household cleaning
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IDK, man, shouldn’t have let A Bug’s Life radicalize us then.
Disney CEO Bob Iger, who makes $27 million a year, went to TV to say that writers and actors aren't being realistic with their demands.
When asked why these workers are being unrealistic he says, "I can't, I can't answer that."
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Again: Hillary's go-to example of a president using both public and private power is Lincoln passing the freakin' 13th Amendment.
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FRESH: I don’t know if this totally added up for me, but what a Sebastian Stan showcase! How did the MCU manage to misuse him so badly when he’s been pretty uniformly fantastic in everything else I’ve ever seen him in?
#Sundance2022
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This is one of the most bananas advertising campaigns I’ve ever seen??
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I would recommend avoiding any boxes of Turkish Delight Melania tries to offer you.
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Brie Larson was born the same day as The Umbrella Academy.
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This is the prime example of a Game of Thrones character who has been on the show for years, and who I’m equally sure I’ve never seen before in my life. But I’m grateful that musical cue let me know I should feel sad when he dies next week.
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Just now learning that Sean Astin’s life is basically the plot of Mamma Mia!
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Congrats to Manny Jacinto on entering the canon of hottest Star Wars characters in just one shot.
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Every episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier feels like a pilot for a different, not very good series.
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Varys: There’s a 50/50 chance that any Targaryen will just randomly go mad.
Also Varys: The only person fit to rule Westeros is Jon Snow a.k.a. Aegon Targaryen. There is absolutely zero chance that guy will ever mess up or make any irrational, impulsive decisions.
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Star Wars is by far the most depressing big budget movie franchise. On a long enough time scale, evil always wins and everyone lives terrible lives before dying tragic deaths.
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When I remember that JOKER is nominated for Best Picture at the Golden Globes and LITTLE WOMEN isn't.
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If I went to The Bear restaurant and they served me raw (?!?) mirepoix vegetables with lukewarm broth, I would leave.
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May all self-serious directors have children who razz them using film references.
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Hear me out: The Star Wars actor who’s come closest to recapturing Harrison Ford’s vibe in the original trilogy is Amy Sedaris in The Mandalorian.
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Finally watched the Euphoria finale and, dang, talk about an all-time great rom-com line: "Is one of us gonna get hurt? Yeah. Probably. But I’ll do my best to make sure that it’s me." I hope Sam Levinson took the day off after that one.
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LONG SHOT is one of the best romantic comedies we've had in years, and I wrote about why I love it so much.
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The inevitable Christopher Plummer and Timothée Chalamet oldest/youngest nominee photo shoot is going to be adorable.
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Imagine Laura Dern looking you in the eyes and listing all the great, inspiring things you’ve ever done.
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She wasn't just saying she was inspired by the movie in the abstract. She name drops Lincoln in the speech itself.
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Have now seen Endgame twice and don’t really know what to do with all my thoughts on it (have me on your podcast?), but let me just say that the work Karen Gillan has done to elevate Nebula into one of the MCU’s most compelling characters is *incredibly* impressive.
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It was one thing to watch the Cats trailer when I knew what I was clicking on, but the thought of it playing for innocent movie goers without any warning is too much to handle.
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I hope Greta Gerwig uses this exact look for the part in Little Women where Laurie goes to Europe and becomes a fuckboy.
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Sacagawea basically lived The Revenant while carrying a freaking newborn baby across the country. Someone should make a movie of that.
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No one will ever be able to convince me this isn’t Margot Robbie.
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Racism is real. Misogyny is real. Internalized misogyny is real.
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Strong argument to be made that Keanu Reeves in SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE is the dreamiest human being in cinema history.
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Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) has stage-four kidney cancer & is fighting to protect ACA. Let's have more celebrations of HER heroism please.
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Some weird and wonderful news: If you fly Southwest this month, check out the in-flight magazine because I wrote a piece for it all about the return of the romantic comedy!
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Does the person who gets eliminated first have to marry Mr. Collins?
‘Pride and Prejudice’-Inspired Reality Dating Show Ordered at Peacock
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