Most of Ridley Scott's films are bad. He's still made at least six or seven really good ones, though. And the bad ones often look cool.

The news sites went crazy when Fassbender was in Norway for two months.

I'm from a small European country that feels very proud whenever Americans talk about us. A headline in a major newspaper today read "Norwegian sings in trailer for upcoming blockbuster".
I think it's my second favorite one, after "Norwegian chair in new Transformers movie".

That guy's line reading of "Oh, no, I would be very unlucky" is glorious.

Never more than three in a day.

I don't think he's showrunning. He's not a writer at all. He's a producing director, like he was on Pushing Daisies.

Visually, it blurred the line between "wizarding world" and "real world" aesthetic in a way that deviated from the first films and the books. Suddenly everyone under 30 is wearing t-shirts and hoodies, and the visual distinction between muggle technology and magic is lessened.
Sirius Black's character introduction is…

Azkaban is the best movie experience of the series, but it really messed up a few elements for the series further on.

You could make an argument for the first episode being set entirely in the present too, couldn't you?

This is the episode they were shooting when production shut down, right? But it's also probably the episode with the most momentum and purpose so far. This really shouldn't be my focus while watching for the first time, but I was stuck trying to parse what might have been reshot or rewritten, but just like the…

This trailer passed the Bechdel test because of that cringy lesbian joke.

14%, 8%, 61%. Closer, but there's still 17% missing.

Batman ≠ Superman

His breakthrough album/mixtape came three years ago, but he's only been one of the big names, and Chicago's unofficial mascot, for the past year.
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I feel like that was a moderate failure? Oh wow, if this is an attempt to set Oliver Twist in modern day, I'm very skeptical.

"Thomas Kail, fresh off of helming Grease Live!" How did that become his credit rather than Hamilton, which this genre-crossing hiphop musical is clearly hoping to emulate?

Party in the USA is a great song

I have! I live in a Seeso-less country though

But pretty soon he'll be leaving for Vancouver for two years.

I'm a Norwegian who was seven years old in 2000, but when I informed three adult Americans of this a couple of years back, and they refused to believe me.