Yeah, this is for sure going to be lighter — just look at everything Lord & Miller have done up to this point. Plus, I think they're giving these two more leeway than say Trevorrow or Edwards, because they are a lot more established/proven as filmmakers (and probably less easy to control as well).

Considering Glover's filming schedule for this is reportedly what's delaying the entire next season of Atlanta, it better be a damn good movie that uses his talents as much as possible.

I really feel you on the Alien/Aliens comparison. While they're both great, they're doing entirely different things.

Well they did take pains to mention "studio albums" — gonna assume that number balloons if they start including live albums (as the stage banter assumedly counts towards).

I guess that's fair. People like you and me go to these sites and read about this stuff all the time, leaving the Oscars as a kinda vestigial organ of our cinematic education. But I guess it's not people like us I'm concerned about. While in its current form is a sort of fashion show parody of itself, I'd venture to…

While I don't agree with your assessment of The Witch, and it *will* likely be ignored, to be fair to the Oscars, the nominees haven't even been announced yet. I do agree though that foreign movies should be taking more nom slots in the "non-foreign" categories (it's a bit like how animated films are relegated to that…

Sure their views are limited, but I've rarely found them to have egregiously poor taste. I don't know, maybe I'm just sentimental, but as a young kid, as flawed as it is, the Academy was my gateway drug to total cinematic obsession. Nobody else in my family was really that concerned with movies, and I quickly started…

If it helps any, no one has been lining up to give him work — these last two movies have been largely self-financed I believe, and for very low budgets. Somehow these constraints have seemed to lead to better filmmaking decisions too, so I'm not complaining.

I feel like he showed a lot of restraint not actually putting a *literal* Samuel L. Jackson after-credits world building tag, considering his Fury turns at the beginning of the MCU are what made this kinda thing common practice, and are the source of a lot of jokes.

Wait… I'm pretty sure that they made a point to say that Kevin's father "left on a train," and that that was part of the trauma that he experienced as a kid… 17 years since "Unbreakable"… Is there a possibility Kevin's father was in the train crash in "Unbreakable" and that thread will come up??

To raise another question — is this legal?? Like… Isn't this some kind of copyright or IP infringement? Does that happen with food and cakes? I mean, surely if someone figures out your recipe or whatever, you can't really stop them from feeding themselves. But for a thing like this where it's presumably hundreds of…

I mean, I was complaining about the focus of the site being kinda lost earlier, but I've gotta say that the Duff Goldman angle — and the fact that they report on food now for some reason, but that's a whole other can of worms — places this story right within their wheelhouse. Plus, this one didn't just make me…

The bit where he kicked the can and it hurt his foot, only to have it ricochet off of the train tracks and hit him while writing in pain on the ground — man that was some great physical comedy.

I'd assume these "nice teeth" were actually dentures, and was actually foreshadowing the junkie twist.

I wouldn't be surprised if Trinity came back in some capacity next week or later in the season.

Thank you for articulating this far better than I just did upthread. If I'd seen it before ranting, I'd probably just direct responses down here.

True true, I would never want them to be neutral! But it's like what you're kinda getting at —if comedian XYZ comments on Trump, or a show/movie engages in satire or it comes up naturally to explain stuff in a pop cultural lens that is super fair game, and it'd be weird if they didn't comment on it. This article not…

Okay, I'm sorry, but I'm not bullying anybody here, nor have i ever in this comments section. I just said (after saying I was thankful for the commentariat) that there's a little too many of these posts with tenuous (at best) connections to pop culture — I mean, just look at the last three newswires! This is news we…

Eh, they don't report on everything Al Franken does in Congress, and I'd say that he's a pop culture figure too. Nor do I remember them writing much about Schwarzenegger's time as governor, and he's definitely more of a pop culture figure. I mean, I get that when pop culture/art intersects with politics, it's gonna…

Uh, shouldn't it be @VP47 for Biden? I know, I know, that's clearly not supposed to be the takeway from this article, but that seriously bugs me…