“Turned around” is a little strong but it has improved a bit recently. I think part of it is a what seems like a new willingness to do some new and odd things, though most of them seem to revolve around parodies / tributes— this Death Note one, a Fargo (tv show) two-part tribute last season, a Naked & Afraid one. They…

They edited the text, though it’s still not as clear as it could be. The “It” parodies airs Oct 23 (yesterday; it was fine), the THOH episode Oct 30.

I’m skipping down to the comments since I haven’t watched these episodes yet, but highly recommended is Herzog’s Conquest Of The Useless, his journal about (and written during) the making of Fitzcarraldo. It’s everything you’d want and expect and hope for.

I bought Arkham Knight a few months ago and started it, but didn’t get that far in before my enthusiasm waned considerably on realizing just how much of it involved using the Batmobile. It’s an okay enough idea in theory, but good lord is it terrible in practice. (Like having to gun it up a ramp and over a gap to get…

What they needed was two 300lb actors.

I do have to wonder if they retain the accent that’s described in the books— a sort of southern, Texas drawl— which always seemed hilariously incongruous with all the nasty shit the Seanchan do, and even just all the ‘regular’, archly ceremonial stuff.

That’s because, if I remember correctly, they were approximately six thousand pages each.

No matter what the cost would actually be, it sounds like.

Lot of button-downs and cardigans in Pinhead’s closet, I reckon.

Maybe he lives backwards in time, like Merlin.

Hey, the ankle wings don’t look ridiculous!

Is it actually available to watch somewhere? Or is it nestled in the dustbin of history next to Quibi itself?

All subsequent versions (I mean, I guess there’s only been two, but...) should’ve been called The Daily Show Without Craig Kilborn

It’s almost definitely the stupidest thing you’ll read this week.

And/or fight club.

Speaking of national treasures, Kevin Kline absolutely killed it tonight. But then, when doesn’t he on this show.

Stephen Root would have KILLED as [fill in pretty much anything].

I was thinking along the same lines— a lot of the descriptions here (and in the articles about the festivals) make hardly, if any, mention whether the movie in question is actually, you know, good.

Didn’t sort of the same thing happen on Hannibal, where he was playing Mason Verger? At least there he was under a bunch of prosthetics so it was almost less important who was playing the character.

Unless I read the opening credits wrong (I wasn’t paying a ton of attention), William Stanford Davis-- Mr. Johnson-- is now a full regular cast member, which is a good move.