Sunfyre going offscreen feels all kinds of wrong, especially as we had so much finality with Meleys (she exploded on impact and they somehow got hold of her head, too).

The MCU’s miracle ingredient has been Sarah Finn and her casting department. They keep finding note perfect actors and cameo actors who leave an impression. Even Inhumans had great casting.

The trailer sounds so good because the music is from Roger Corman’s Battle Beyond The Stars (1980) by a young James Horner who recycled much of it into The Wrath Of Khan.

FX Shogun is uniquely situated to pull off more seasons. The “source material” is real life historic events and people and there’s much more to tell about Ieyasu Tokugawa and William Adams’ lives and early Edo Japan successfully resisting colonization. The first series made homage to James Clavell’s inventions, mainly…

Kurosawa to Lucas to Coogler! But looking through Black Panther’s final battle, apart from the energy shields it’s not that visually similar. Whereas the Battle Of Wakanda in Infinity War has a direct homage including the energy shields all in a row in open Gungan style.

Who knew there was something new to learn about Star Wars and George Lucas. This is a fantastic article.

“Vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces.”

A good actor with a good script that explores Robin Williams as a person. His off screen life is full of fascinating stories in the right hands and when the time is right for his family.

This is full on abusive ex behavior. “You’re lucky to have me, no one else would want you, why are you hurting me!?”

It’s odd to want more seasons of an adaptation of a book with no sequel. The episode ended so well with a sense of the surviving characters on the cusps of their next journeys. Toronaga with his new city and shogunate, Blackthorne in his new career as shipwright.

Maybe if you judge his means to the end. But like his historic counterpart Tokugawa, Toronaga has saved Japan another era of internal warfare, and the coming Edo era of unified will enable Japan to resist colonization and conquest even after they are forcibly opened to trade in 200 years.

You can stream it on Paramount+. I watched it for Squidward’s big solo song by They Might Be Giants and was glad to see the whole thing.

I live in Haight-Ashbury and the consistent young street kids and buskers who play Dead all day have for some time been born after Jerry died. Without even seeing the original band it still appeals and resonates for them.

I don’t want Talking Heads to get back together if they don’t enjoy it. They don’t seem to have the Fleetwood Mac alchemy of thriving on pissed off energy.

One thing JJ Abrams is actually great at is casting. Look at his lineup for the Star Trek reboot. Look at the chemistry between Finn and Poe.

Jordan Peele bought the film from Netflix so it could have a full theatrical release (via Universal) and box office.

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I have tried to explain the existence of Tom Vu but any honest description gets me punched in the face.

It’s mainly newsworthy for how the Lewis Brothers made these highly produced, mawkish, forced, tone deaf “biography concepts” with celebrity impersonators, and what exactly they hope to accomplish.

The skit would be more realistic if the woman was herself shorter than all the short men.