The Amazon connection is being overplayed in this story. This was a Sony/Columbia production originally intended for a theatrical release by that studio. The pandemic scuttled that, and Amazon just bought the movie from Sony last month for a digital release. So yeah, Amazon didn’t produce it, or decide anything other…

Yeah, kind of weird to state that he wasn’t in it, when the article this one links to specifically mentions he joined by Zoom and covers why he wasn’t there in person.

Drew Carey didn’t have a wife on The Drew Carey Show (the female lead for most of the show was his friend Kate, who was one of the guys), so it’s weird to mention that as an example of the type of show this one is commenting on.

it’s undeniable there was a drop in quality after he left.

Here’s the original NYT story with the interview. I haven’t listened to the audio transcript (sounds too upsetting), but based on this, it seems like Arnett makes one joke about having keyed Bateman’s car, but otherwise keeps his mouth shut during the most heated part (where Hale and especially Bateman come off the…

No time to wait for an anniversary! Paramount has a streaming service that no one’s interested in to rebrand and needs content!

No need. The review posted first thing this morning said it outright.

I’ve been watching Frasier on Hulu recently, and the idea of a revival just bums me out. Frasier turned 40 in the first season 28 years ago. Unless they get Laura Linney back or provide him with another wife, that will means he’s 68, still single, and still trying to find another relationship (and making a fool of…

This is a stunningly bad take. Do you think stories about Black women, or Black people in general, historically did well at the Oscars in the last century? (Note: they didn’t. Only two Black actresses had even won Oscars prior to this century.) Yet you think making a movie about the type of people who didn’t win…

Agreed. I remember thinking the movie didn’t really, or entirely, work, because some things that worked on the page didn’t when made literal on the screen, but Kimberly Elise’s performance is the thing that stuck with me the most. She was tremendous. I also thought Lisa Gay Hamilton didn’t get enough acclaim as the…

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I know he’s not the one we’re being asked how we’ll remember (RIP Cloris), but he’ll always be Blanche’s soldier/pharmacist beau to me.

I know you’re going for snark, but as the story notes, this happened in 2016 when he was with the Cubs (which were doing quite well and were in the middle of their championship season). He wasn’t hired by the Mets until last month.

As mrrpmrrpmrrpmrrp noted, Warner Bros. opted for an “11-day opening” for Tenet leading up to the Labor Day Weekend. So it counted 20.2M for the opening...but that was a lot longer that just a weekend.

Great news! It definitely wasn’t perfect, but I enjoyed it a lot and am glad there will be another. Wonder Woman is exactly the kind of superhero I need these days—positive, loving, kind, untortured—someone who’s genuinely good (which is such a change of pace these days!). It’s hard to write such a character and not…

Tonight we watched Wonder Woman 1984. It’s now going to be my go-to example about how plot holes don’t matter if you click emotionally with a movie. It totally clicked for me and even now, thinking about various obvious plot holes, I don’t care. I loved it.

Maya has actually done Dionne Warwick before—Tituss thought he killed her on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I didn’t think it was very good. (Ego’s take wasn’t great either, but I think it might have been marginally better.)

I didn’t realize this was based on that play, but I remember following some of the discussion about it on the Broadway World boards. The confession at the end was a leap some were willing to take (accepting that the point was that it’s ridiculous), and others most definitely were not (because it’s ridiculous). Looks…

Most, if not all, of the episodes are on Youtube. That’s where I started watching them when I got nostalgic a few years ago and wanted to revisit it. Those opening scenes of every episode that were shot in the city are so wonderful. Like getting dropped back into  New York in the 80s.