I think you’ve conflated my two paragraphs somewhat (which is on me, I’m addressing two different ideas in someone else’s post, and I made no attempt to separate them other than a double space) - in the first I take issue with whether Jaws is an action movie or thriller, in the second I apply my personal rudimentary…

I admit I’m still mystified - of all the great young actor finds of Stranger Things, the one that clearly has much less talent and charisma than any of them is the one whose profile has soared.

*only cursorily looks at thumbnail*

Virtual gaming is also a great boon for board gaming, it does all the setup/breakdown for you.

The movie is more of a test run; Hasbro/WotC are much more invested in video games as the future of their IP monetization (the newish president/CEO of WotC came from Xbox management and has stated her focus on video games and virtual tabletop).

Hasbro has been steadily ramping up the development of D&D as a brand for some years now, as both D&D and Magic (and therefore Wizards of the Coast) have become Hasbro’s biggest cash cow.  They’ve pivoted a lot of attention to monetizing the nerdspace, and both the movie and these OGL shenanigans are part of the same…

This description seems a bit misleading- yes, there’s companies that are using older editions of DnD, adding and subtracting, and then publishing them for profit, but the vast majority of the effect of the new OGL will be on third-party publishers that are making content for people to put in their home games, not full …

The “action” in Jaws takes up maybe five whole minutes of runtime. The whole rest of the movie is tension, tension, release, tension. This proportion is almost the definition of “thriller”.

For a long stretch of my adolescence, Zelazny was, hands down, my favorite writer. Excited for this, but I hope and pray for two things: that the series keeps the sardonic, near-noirish, Continental-Oplike tone of Corwin’s bastard pragmatism; and that a modern series will finally, fully flesh out the female family…

I still vividly remember that series’ convincing manque of Hunter S. Thompson meeting Croyd Crenson. and his perfect gonzo style depiction of Crenson’s terrifying, amphetamine-amped presence.

Heartbreak Kid also regularly appears on YouTube.

YouTube is one of the primary sources for a dizzying array of preservationists and completists, chief mong them cinephiles and videohounds. Full movies do get taken down regularly, but then someone else (or the same person with another account) just puts them back up again. I keep URLs of different unavailable…

It’s always been on my list of legendary bombs (for it is definitely one of the most infamous) that I want to give a chance, like Cleopatra and Ishtar and Heaven’s Gate. But there’s so goddamn many good-to-great movies out there, I can never muster the energy. Though hearing someone likes this one does melt my heart a…

Welp, looks like its time to finally do what I was too cheap to do a decade ago and splurge on the complete The Wire box set so I can show my grandchildren what America was like

Okay, you’re usually on the ball but wtf. Dude’s debut movie is Cronos. He made The Devil’s Backbone. He made Pan’s Labyrinth and Mimic. Even his movies in other genres are all 25%-50% horror. And of course he’s one of the biggest fans of the genre. He’s in the club.

Burton is the Tyler Perry of spoopiness

How does he get away with it?  Volume, baby, volume!

Aww.  It seems like such a great showcase for some Eastern awesomeness in a Western show, a rare thing even now.  I may still watch it someday just for the martial arts (which I hear are spectacular).

Sleepy Hollow was the movie that first made me think: is Burton just a great production designer and actually a really shitty director? There’s been far more evidence since then for this hypothesis than against.

Todd did have an energy that almost everything else this century from Burton has entirely lacked, but honestly, everything genuinely good from that movie is from Sondheim. Depp and Carter are easily the worst Todd and Lovett of all time.