That’s probably an easy one: they looked at the turns and margins on physical media sales, at best it came up as below average in comparison to anything else on the floor, and given the topline part of the business has been shrinking for a decade there was no chance for a tailwind of the sector itself bailing it out.…

This is a very good point.  God help kids growing up around decades of this.

This isn’t particularly a revelation; 2014's outstanding (which is admittedly an extremely surprising word to link with a Shatner written film) Chaos on the Bridge covered this thoroughly, including an animated guess at the hairpiece, although I don’t think it covered the hairpiece’s flight this thoroughly.

Yep, among other things I’d argue Ellie is the most accurate representation of a grad student ever portrayed and probably should top the overall list.

This is a strange list, not the least because of the cited logic of the deliberate choice to drop Margo in favor of Aleida. The former showed a pretty reasonable representation of what it took to be a woman in both STEM and management in the 70s, 80s, and even 90s; the other has magical plot armor that prevented her…

I remember thinking the country was like a giant cloud of smoke, where it wasn’t too bad on the West Coast but the further east you got, the more thick it was. Also, there was the dread of the potential of being stuck in smoking sections on flights as a kid even through early adulthood - and a memory of the Europeans…

They were engaged from sometime in 2017 or 2018 - the latter is when they announced it - but never got married, which surprised me a bit (and probably was a warning sign; I’m glad even in midst of all this abuse some small voice in her head realized she was in trouble.)

Yep, that was my reaction. Not a classic, but pretty funny, at times slightly scary and gory, and something I wouldn’t mind watching again in a few months or seeing if they can successfully rework the same formula in a sequel. Haven’t been a lot of movies like that recently.

I watched Totally Killer last night and it was a riot in between full on bloody terrifying slasher moments. Kiernan Shipka’s deliveries of the script’s differences between Gen X and Gen Z are dead on (although I don’t quite recall graphic sex being discussed that openly, but perhaps I was sheltered.)

I haven’t been paying much attention to Critical Role for a while so I missed the restraining order, but prior to that I’d noticed she had stopped wearing her ring which I thought was a little odd. The full story is a lot worse than I ever could have imagined.

What I remember him most for is not Harry Potter or The King’s Speech, but a 2002 HBO movie, Path to War, where he plays the lead role of LBJ.

There’s a decent argument to be made for the audience as part of the ‘involved’ comment.

It wasn’t the best show that came out of The WB—that distinction would inarguably go to our second-place holder

I’m 18 months late having not seen this the first time around, but given Jez decided for some bizarre reason to pull this article back out of the obscurity it deserved, you nailed exactly what the treatment of their ex says about them: they’re a selfish asshole.

For something that’s SEO nonsense, I’ll admit I learned something - I’d never heard of the Girls on Film uncensored version, and with minimal searching it can still be seen pretty easily. I can easily see why the BBC refused it, but what the article leaves out is that it was filmed before MTV and was directly aimed at…

My biggest concern is actually Madden, who should be by now be showing signs of a spine of steel - which a decent actor can do with a performance even if the writing isn’t there. Presuming they don’t completely gut her arc (and the casting of Elaida versus just merging that character into Liandrin would probably…

Much like the show, this is at least an improvement over the genuinely bizarre article from a couple weeks ago, but it’s still got a lot of problems.

“(S)howrunner Rafe Judkins and the writing staff seemed suitably concerned with fidelity....earnestly presenting the customs and cultures of “The World of the Wheel.””

This…

One of the things that concerned me going into this was that Turner was all sorts of screwed up coming out of Game of Thrones to the point where I wondered when the news broke of the marriage how she was in any shape at all for a relationship, let alone marriage and kids. Before all that, there was a long interview…

I’m so sorry about your dad. It’s brutal caregiving.

Most of us agreed that the world-building was amazing