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Kathryn Bigelow is one of my favorite filmmakers of all time. Period. I think her work is stunning. She’s an artist, a technician, a visual stylist, and a total badass who has worked in the kinetic, muscular, testosterone-heavy world of action and thriller cinema for most of her career, a genre long dominated by male directors, and she didn’t just step into it, she detonated it. This is not the kind of career you’d normally associate with a female filmmaker, which is of cour

Oh man…Keanu. I am not embarrassed to say that I absolutely love Keanu Reeves . There was a long, snarky period where it was hip to hate on the guy. All of the cheap jokes, the “whoa” memes, the theater-kid eye rolls (and I come from theater, I’ve done the storefront thing, wrote and directed plays, I know the vibe). He was always the easy punchline at actor parties. I never bought it. I’ve defended Keanu since the very beginning and I’ll keep doing it. Do some roles stretch