Isn't that already the TV-listings-channel description for ANTM?

In general, I'm wary of movies that go past about two and a quarter hours. There are plenty of great movies that are longer than that, and if I'm really interested in a film I don't worry about the runtime, but if I'm on the fence about going to see something and it's 170 minutes, chances are that I'll pass.

I miss the days when the first episode started with a physically-awkward photoshoot. Having an initial challenge that was outside of everybody's comfort zone (posing in a water tank or on a spinning platform or whatever) is just more interesting to me.

And it's not a problem that he's handsome, exactly, but it is a problem that the movie was too squeamish to cover up his handsomeness with a decent ugly makeup. I can suspend a lot of disbelief for Phantom, but "Gerard Butler with a sunburn" being treated as hideously deformed was a bridge too far for me.

Theory: The cars in Cars cars cars cars cars

The fairies are the leads, and they're great. Fight me.

I think the switch in the introductory scene must've been there from the conception of the scene. "Characters start out speaking [non-English language] and then switch to accented English" is one of the standard ways movies deal with other languages, and the audience is supposed to assume that the switch is…

I didn't think there were any words that gave me the visceral negative reaction some people have to, say, "moist," but boy did Dan prove me wrong with "cumspringa."

What do you mean about Brooke throwing shade at Casey? When Brooke picked her, she said, "I know [Casey] wouldn't do anything to harm the end result," which is just the opposite. I took it as a dig at Katsuji and/or Emily for being potentially petty enough to not try their hardest.

Captain Nog or GTFO

"Star Trek: Discovery is expected to launch later this year before the year it's set in. But no promises."

I got a Bat Lash notification for this??

Are you saying that there are multiple instances of Imogen Poots?

It's complete garbage. But making the movie all self-consciously edgy and "adult" is still a baffling move. The people who're nostalgic for it probably won't be interested in something that shares no meaningful resemblance to the (terrible) thing they remember so fondly, and nobody outside that demographic gives a…

On the other hand, there's SO MUCH MORE gluten-free food available now, because it's no longer this tiny medical niche.

You joke, but look up the cast of Star Trek Renegades. Terry Farrell as "Jada!" Tim Ross as "Kovok!" Cirroc Lofton as "Jacob!"

I understand the temptation to do panna cotta. My impression from watching Top Chef is that trying to do pastry makes most non-pastry-chefs quake in their boots. Panna cotta is much easier than making, say, a cake: fewer ingredients, fewer steps. But you're right about timing. Ideally, panna cotta should go in the…

In what sense is WWII less-explored than Batman? There've been maybe a dozen theatrical Batman movies, and Wikipedia has 683 films in its "World War II films" category. Now, obviously, WWII is a much broader topic that can sustain many more movies, but it's not like it's some obscure, under-filmed period of history.

All the theaters I've been to that might have shown Paradise still have concession stands. The worst movie-theater popcorn I've ever had was at a non-profit microcinema. "Those who eat popcorn" sure does sound classist, but I don't think the class division Konchalovsky is imagining actually exists. Which just makes it…

I just watched it back-to-back with How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which has a lot of the same cheap-TV-animation problems (lotsa looping, visible pencil roughs, lack of background detail), but is still way more visually interesting, I think because its "camera" is utilized a lot better. ACBC is basically just a…