Yeah, I enjoyed the ending for that final twist of implications of what the source code has really been doing, and I’ve also been so conditioned by movie narratives that the final reveal of Gyllenhaal’s character was a genuine shock to me (I kept expecting a cliche ending of him getting someone to rescue him from the…

Given what Armada ended up being this probably won’t be the case, but MAYBE this might evolve the universe into something interesting? The whole conceit of the retro-culture wankoff was the contest and the creator. Now that we’ve put that behind us, maybe Cline will try to explore how this universe might actually work…

I like that I was able to spot Mantzoukas was a going to be a voice actor from the article’s header image.

The best thing about The Devil Went Down to Georgia is a couple of live Comedy Bang Bang episodes where Scott Aukerman and PFT try to understand the song’s inner logic (the devil challenges someone to a contest and the devil is the one who determines the winner and the devil loses?!).

If you’re accusing me of being an Office fan...I am! The more general point was that this is fairly well trod territory, to the extent that, as the OP points out, there’s even a whole other Office podcast hosted by Office cast members. But I feel like the kind of person who would be interested in this podcast is…

But it will give us a chance to hear, for the 100th time, how Krasinski thought it was a really bad idea to remake such a brilliant UK show and didn’t think it could possibly work, and how the first question he asked when being cast was if Jenna Fischer got the role (and vice versa for Jenna!).

And then he does something like this...AND TOTALLY REDEEMS HIMSELF!

I’m more curious about why this has been so prevalent. How do the shows carry the motivation to wanting to make animated cast diverse, but seem to have a lack of motivation in extending that diversity to the actual cast?

Am I the only one who’s heart breaks a little bit with the Ecce Homo story? It was just sweet little old lady who saw the painting at her church and was sad how much of it was worn and flaked away, so she started coming in to try and restore it, and actually was thinking she had done a good job until the world swooped…

I’m sure it was just a matter of too little too late, but I always find it an odd little footnote that blockbuster’s own version of netflix (back in the disc mailing days, before streaming) didn’t do more to cut into netflix’s piece of the pie. By all accounts, the blockbuster version was a better service (same depth…

I remember when it was a plastic hoop that I spun around my waist!

Though, earnestly, if the episodes were Tina Fey in blackface, I’d bet she would stand by the jokes (and honestly they don’t need much defending, I don’t think anybody has called these instances of blackface out because I think, for the most part, people who watch 30 Rock are also able recognize context).

I think you’re misremembering a touch. Tina Fey was miffed that there was backlash to season 1 leaning so heavily on making the Asian character a kind of 1-dimensional gag, the episode you’re describing was her in-show “response” to that backlash, but not the episode that created the backlash in the first place (I…

BANJO!!!!

I’m surprised Disney is allowing any fucks into it, given how casual they’ve been about editing other movies so far.

I wasn’t aware that he had made a first film.

“The pop performer also provided a receipt for a reservation at an Airbnb under the alias “Mike Lowery”

“(This would also give them a chance to recast the Flash, if they were maybe looking for an excuse to do that, since keeping Ezra Miller would be a meaningless connection to a series of now-unrelated movies.)“

This is basically Vaughn’s version of Resident Evil/Underworld. A franchise that’s developed enough of a fan base that they can be dependably churned out every couple of years for a paycheck, while everyone else kind of shrugs or gets confused with a “they’ve made x number of films in this franchise?!?”

“but if you are a 17-year-old woman who clearly must know it is both gross and illegal for then-37-year-old adults to be propositioning you...”