For as many great movies as he was great in, I always enjoyed his palpable contempt for the whole operation on Las Vegas. His every line reading just wearily sighed, “I was in The Godfather, dammit.”

“Kevin, we had this conversation when you proposed creating human-lizard hybrids. Please don’t make us have it a third time.”

There’s a pretty funny West Wing exchange that gets at this dynamic:

Yeah, I was thinking about that. It’s been kind of hard to keep track of the details of Barry’s various murders, thanks to the years-long break before this season, but all they have on Barry for Janice’s murder is what Cousineau told Papa Moss, right? And all Cousineau knows is what Fuches told him. So you have Person…

It’s going to be really confusing when this debuts on a Thursday. 

Marvel: Hey, Christian Bale, would you like to be in a Marvel movie? We’ll give you money.

You beat me to this. I remember watching that scene as a teenager and thinking that I had never seen a character on TV explicitly say something like that before. It blew me away. 

One of the things King did really well in the novel was to beyond just standard Cold War-era distrust of the government to portray The Shop as fundamentally incompetent. It’s an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government agency that is apparently staffed exclusively with morons, Rainbird notwithstanding. Hell,…

Lance Reddick as Wesker is pretty brilliant casting, if nothing else. And “if nothing else” looks like it might be quite literally true in this case. 

Yeah, I remember this site being pretty down on Revival in its initial review, but it really is a remarkable book. King is an underrated sentimentalist, but from time-to-time he really lets his nasty, I’m-not-screwing-around-this-time side out, and Revival is the perfect example of it.

It feels like a videogame developer and tech billionaire accused of murdering his wife would probably both want and be able to hire a top-notch defense attorney with an impeccable track record and a squeaky clean reputation, as opposed to just accepting the guy who works out of his car after being out of the game for…

It does make sense.

The ending was, in a lot ways, consistent with the themes the show established during its run. The show took great pains to emphasize that you don’t get out of the espionage life alive, especially when you’re someone like Villanelle, and however fun and charming we all might find Carolyn, she was always utterly…

I was briefly into the Tower of Sisyphus, but I keep stalling out at only the third level, and after I acquired the items I needed to open the locked hospital door and saw Ascension’s end credits it seemed kind of pointless to keep at it.

I think I’m one of about three people on Earth who will admit being excited about this.

Hughes actually has a really good point, and something I’ve been thinking about for a while: it’s striking just how much good will one or two really good ideas or mechanics can earn a game.

Randall called it out a bit at the end of the review, but I did want to mention the looks Naveen Andrews gives the Walgreens guys during their first meeting, especially when he was walking Sommer to the bathroom. It’s shot pretty brilliantly, too, with Sommer in the foreground and Andrews slightly out of focus in the…

I never really understand the kvetching about the Oscars ceremony. Yeah, it’s overlong and self-indulgent. Who cares? It’s one night a year. Give me all the nominees, give me the much-mocked “Movies are cool” montages (movies are cool!), give me the dumb skits. It’s a show to award trophies to people who make believe…

Have to feel like Stan’s super-strong metal arm is a real advantage in a scenario like this.

It’s interesting, because one of my only gripes with the first game was that the really cool, really involved combat system could make the simple act of traversing the map into more of a chore than I wanted it to be. You pretty much always run across robot dinosaur enemies, and as Hughes points out, you can’t just…