I don’t think failure is too strong a word. First, it failed to keep up the standards of the first three episodes. Second and more importantly, it failed to live up to its potential even without those high standards.

With that perspective, I’ll be interested in your reaction to the series after you’ve played the game.

I actually liked Spanish Eyes, the companion of Sweetest Thing on that B side, more than I did the latter. Both were nearly impossible to find for like a decade after; I think I might even still have the original 45 sitting around someplace.

That’s a good point about how the lack of interaction is one reason why the Kansas City stuff doesn’t work.

What I remember most about watching the film in the theater - more so than the movie itself - was seeing multiple groups of female teens scurry out as they didn’t apparently know anything about it besides who was in it.

I was slightly disappointed with Sarah Polley, partially because she made some really interesting, non-traditional choices at the other awards and the tux was easily the least adventurous of them, but more because she usually has some really fascinating things to say and instead we got a line of “I don’t ever like to…

The Sorvino exclusion from In Memoriam was odd, especially since his daughter almost certainly was there someplace; he did a decent amount of TV, but also plentiful film credits

I was also waiting for Joel to throw that exact topic back at Marlene when they were on the subject, something like ‘Well, does she get a say?”

I’d say we’re being set up for Cocaine Bear being Matt Damon underneath, but he’s shown more range.

One of the all time most sincere acceptance speeches, too.

Belfast got nominated in a weak year for movies (gee, can’t imagine what world event might have happened to cause that) largely because the Academy was fond of Branagh, and its a decent enough film. The problem is that it’s not even close to the best movie on The Troubles in the last decade; that goes to 2014's…

It’s amusing since to use his own term, I doubt Keizer ever bothered to see a movie on The Troubles that Belfast can’t hold its own candle to, which was 2014's ‘71.

I’m less interested in the movie itself than how one around structured around the 80s/90s premise of it accounts for and adapts to the post #MeToo era.

And a much more serious turn as the very tough Berel Jastrow in the miniseries adaptation of Winds of War and War and Remembrance.

Yeah, I think her agency is going to need to sit down with her and gently remind her that while she may be the (probably) irreplaceable star of this show, there’s a decent chance her future opportunities are going to be affected if she has more interviews like this.

This was one of several reasons why I thought this was easily the weakest episode of the series so far.

I’ll give a little bit of what Dash said about that as well, because it’s a really interesting bit of context on some of the issues facing people who write popular history.

I definitely think the novel still has some value in vividly bringing to life the Columbian Exposition and the world and society of that era since it’s fascinating, but yeah, given the true story it’s really not a movie that needs to be made if it’s a faithful adaptation.

You’re looking for H. H. Holmes: The True Story of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer.

There’s been a bunch of research that has largely debunked the ‘based on a true story’ part of the book, and while I doubt it had much impact on actors dropping out, it’s probably not a bad thing that it’s not getting made as such.