Final Fantasy XV is the reason I couldn’t finish Final Fantasy XV. I played through all the driving, took the speedboat to the train, watched a bunch of cutscenes that were little more than clips from some Neflix movie I had no interest in watching, and they used that as a shortcut to get around dragging the story…

“The Drunk Daughter of Rob Schneider Ruined Dolly Parton’s Birthday Party” is probably an inaccurate description of how little Dolly would care but is still the funniest headline I’ve seen about this so far.

That’s not how quotes work.

Also, following up, Warner Bros. likely pulled the same move on Ray Fisher and Kiersey Clemmons years ago by floating an anonymous rumor to The Hollywood Reporter to distract from racism accusations against Joss Whedon and Geoff Johns. They claimed Fisher got Clemmons’s scenes cut from Justice League (...uh...how?),…

The problem is that Oprah also complained about the problems on set weeks ago (as did other actors), but the story circled right back around to trying to make it Oprah versus Taraji instead of Oprah and Taraji versus the studio even after Oprah and Taraji debunked it over a month ago.

To be fair, only 20 million Gamecubes were sold. And as one of those people who owned one of those few Gamecubes, I had no idea this was a thing and appreciate it.

The funny thing is, so much of this show is material directly from the novels. It’s probably relying more on the novels than anything else. The departure is Master Chief, who in the game is just a cipher for the player and has pretty much no personality other than stoically dutiful.

As an American, I’m sympathetic to the emotional shock of the unexpected use of two words you have only ever been taught apply to a very specific temporal and geographic history because your schooling is limited to a very specific temporal and geographic history.

I know someone who works for Apple and he claims Netflix is the one not wanting to play ball.

50 years isn’t old when it comes to film.

I think HBO Max has a TCM channel dedicated to old movies as well. I’ve never dug into it.

The problem is that Netflix is the best streaming service and no one wants to concede the point. They’re like McDonald’s if McDonald’s served 3 star Michelin filet mignon for the same price as a flurry.

The idea that nepo babies would refuse to write an ending where inherited authoritarian power in and of itself is the problem is the most coherent thing about their run, to be honest.

I find it amusing that Mean Girls was explained to me as a savvy deconstruction of high school gender dynamics as an allegory for the rise and fall of authoritarian regimes and revolutionary movements. The Take and Sarah Z (in her video on why the musical is bad) did a decent job of contextualizing all of this.

You would think she would be more conscious of how something like this would land, both in present day and in the future.

“Are you sure you can handle this indie game? Only the coolest people can handle this indie game...”

The Expanded Universe was so confoundingly mediocre and derivative and, well, incredibly right-wing and conservative that George Lucas had to keep telling people over and over again for decades that it had nothing to do with the actual Star Wars franchise and was just people playing in their own sandbox writing…

This feels almost like a bone thrown to a generation of Star Wars fans salivating at the idea that The Clone Wars and Rebels wasn’t 11 seasons of midness written, directed, and run by a bunch of people not named Filoni. (Filoni wrote 11 episodes of the 132 episodes of Clone Wars, was showrunner for only the first two…

Pssh, if that girl wants to look like someone who’s had a lifetime of testosterone influencing

“What you won’t see is, for instance, another very special episode with Bill and Frank, we aren’t going to milk it. When we do something that we think is beautiful, we let it be as it is and find other beautiful things to do.”