You were right to stop; the first fifteen minutes of a pilot is always representative of a show’s entire run.

It’s between Alien and the director’s cut of Kingdom of Heaven

Bob Woodward records history.

The movies Eastwood directs, with a few happy exceptions, tend to be slow as hell, sentimental, and damn-near tedious. That said, there has never been, in the history of movies, an actor with a longer viable career. There are still millions of movie fans who go, “Oh, look- a new Clint Eastwood movie” when he has a new…

I really loved ‘Gran Torino’. He’s already older here and it’s a great little movie.

He’ll show him when his Shark Tale 2 draft gets made!

For a substantial segment of the population, the drawbacks of seeing a movie in the theater outweighed the advantages, pre-pandemic. First of all about 10 years ago I stopped going to any theater at all where I couldn’t reserve seats. Then there’s travel, cost, the random chance that someone sitting near me is some…

I don’t care much for comic books, would give the MCU a pitchfork-approving 6.8/10 overall and agree, mostly, with Scorsese’s non-cinema accusations... That all said, I love Infinity War immensely, and it’s almost all down to it actually having something resembling an atmosphere, A FEELING, rather than the (mostly)…

D’oh! You missed 3-4 more good seasons. THEN you should have quit.

I hope this is just exhaustion and not something more serious.

The donut shaped universe is from “They Saved Lisa’s Brain” in season 10.  Not any of the Halloween episodes.

Who still measures success based entirely off of broadcast TV ratings?

Some of the best movie directors of all time have made some movies that are middling to bad. The only way to make sure that every movie you ever make is an A+ is to ... not make a lot of movies, I mean very, very few movies. This is not a particularly good business model for a movie studio.

I’m happy that most people in the comments don’t buy into the negative direction newswires have taken

Yes, the internet is a different place now than it was then. For example, if I was reading this article back then, it most likely wouldn’t have suddenly loaded an ad a full twenty seconds after I opened the page, suddenly bumping the part I was reading off the screen and making me lose my place, frustrating me almost…

Honestly, COVID may have created the best possibly viewing experience for this. Fewer people in theaters means fewer crunching candy and popcorn bags so the whole theater might actually stay quiet during the tense quiet moments. 

I like that about Todd, Todd.

I love this movie more than I should because it coincided with HBO and MTV making my suburban existence slightly more bearable. Coppola was such an unpredictable, fascinating entity in that period, swerving from Apocalypse Now to The Outsiders and Rumblefish to One From the Heart. He was an iconoclast whose operatic,…

Did they ask him about Phoebe Bridgers and Eddie Van Halen?