There’s also still the IFC theater and Film Forum. And Angelika too I think. (In terms of independent theaters that’ll show weird shit, not necessarily sit-down-and-eat theaters)

If there were a surprise, though, it would be a big franchise like Loki, Ahsoka, or Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Does this make Glen Powell all the more charming and relatable to you?

A group of good comedians could probably do something non-shitty with something an AI-generated script.

Pick pretty much any movie in the 70s, into the early 80s, for examples of characters (or actors, really) who look 70 but are in their mid-30s. Smoking and terrible haircuts are a bad combo.

You joke (or at least someone on Xwitter jokes) but I have no doubt that some studio executive pitched something like that at some point.

Andy Daly improves pretty much anything, though.

He used that to good / subversive effect in Game Night, too. (And I think in Fargo season 2, if I remember correctly, or maybe managed to suppress it? Or let some stuff through.)

Maybe I’m just being generous and giving it the benefit of the doubt, but I got the impression that the Megalopolis review didn’t want to give away, well, anything about the movie— plot, characters, actors, etc.— and so had to twist itself into knots about “the vibe” instead.

Didn’t read the article at all then, huh? Just saw Trump’s name and your (metaphorical, probably) brain worm twitched and you had to say something. It’s okay, go back to bed.

Well, okay.

Would this— or at least the idea of this— be better received if he hadn’t put “An American Saga” in the title? I mean, that subtitle is writing a pretty goddamn big check that the movie’s ass will have to cash.

Neither of those films are worthy of a 20 minute standing ovation.

It’s not one single moment in the prequels, but Palpatine’s overall vibe of “I cannot believe you dumbshits are letting me get away with all of this”.

I do remember it being a real WTF moment when learning that the Happy Feet guy was also the Mad Max guy.

It’s a shame their only scene in Burn After Reading together is like 10 seconds long, if that.

Edgar Wright’s The Running Man remake

Boy, that helmet looks incredibly unwieldy. Like if he tilts his head even slightly he’ll tip over.

Hey, at least the 20-year age difference isn’t the usual older man / younger woman one....

I think the issue is that this could have been such a satire, but didn’t quite get there (or maybe didn’t want to, which is fine I guess but could be frustrating if it’s clear the potential was there).