Iran-Contra is very much relevant today. The AG at the time torpedoed the investigation by suggesting some strategic pardons to President Bush, killing it before it could reach the Oval Office. That AG’s name? William Barr. Yeah, that William Barr. Conservative political writer William Safire dubbed him the “Coverup…

I thought it was an origin story for Hong Kong Phooey.

>Zack Snyder shared intriguing test footage of a horned woman set to appear in Rebel Moon.

So there’s money to hire a (no doubt) extremely expensive team of spin doctors, but no money to pay their employees more. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: companies don’t view their workers as people; they view them as office supplies.

Is Helena Bonham Carter in it? That’s the giveaway.

No mention of Simon’s other Baltimore crime series, Homicide: Life on the Street? It predated The Wire by nearly 10 years.

And sadly, they made the deliberate choice to mimic it in The Mandalorian and Boba Fett.

I’ve seen Moonfall, man. I’ve seen Armageddon. Hell, I’ve seen Yor: The Hunter from the Future.

Er, wasn’t the Exorcist TV series a direct sequel?

Sounds like the Hollywood version of the old banking adage “If you owe the bank a little money, the bank owns you; if you owe the bank a lot of money, you own the bank.” The studio has sunk too much money into the project to back out or even pressure Miller.

Rudy Giuliani, is that you?

Gabrielle. Gabu-chan was a girl.

I dug the timeline of their U.S. scribbled on a chalkboard in the school in the... Witchdrop? episode of season 1.

Bingo. I still can’t believe that they went out of their way to mimic the horrifically awkward and unnatural Prequel dialogue.

>Andor shoots an ally to escape in the opening scene, and I latched on to that immediately.

“And here’s why I hate it.”

Yup, I leafed through the movie cards for Star Wars and Close Encounters before I saw the movies themselves. (I also cranked through the film reel on the Kenner Star Wars viewer in the toy store, so I was able to “watch” bits of it.)

They were perfectly fine with a guy who refers to Hitler “The Fuhrer” and had a visit to his vacation home on his bucket list, but you don’t break the first rule of Republican Coke Orgy Club.

The Joe Rogan of tech.

If the movie were Kirk Lazarus, it would be saying, “I’m the movie, playing the movie, disguised as another movie.”