Sadly there’s plenty of old sci-fi novels that are extremely filmable but no one has bothered to film! My choice would be Gateway - it could be done on an extremely low budget, the whole thing takes place indoors in 3-4 locations. 

Yeah unfortunately I think too much of what makes Left Hand of Darkness interesting happens inside Genly’s head. 

The Saga of Pliocene Exile is my pick for “next Game of Thrones” - it’s got the huge and varied cast of colorful characters, with a sprawling world and lots of plot threads all interweaving. It’s just begging for a streaming adaptation.

I think you could make a really awesome adaption of the first book as a complete story in itself, but the rest of the trilogy not so much.

Startide Rising is really cinematic, that’s a great idea for an adaptation. But I can’t imagine the VFX budget...

If an indie film can’t manage to find enough of an audience to get screenings in more than a handful of cities, is it really deserving of Best Picture?

I wish I could give it points for originality, but somehow ATSV is a sequel to a rebooted superhero and still manages to feel more original than Elemental.

I’m guessing the new calculation is something extremely basic like “if a user has only ever rated this one movie, that rating won’t count for much” which would fix 90% of the problem without biasing the actual rating much. If someone who otherwise doesn’t care enough about rating movies to bother, makes an account…

The part I don’t get is... usually when a song is nominated, the artist is given a slot to perform. It seems that the actors were invited, but they aren’t the artist here - they’re not the ones singing. Why weren’t the actual singers invited? And if you’re going to stage a dance performance, why didn’t the…

This is a weird hill to die on, for both parties. Why not let the showrunner of your brand new hit get away with a nepotism hire? Why throw away a career-defining gig for your wife’s fledgling attempts at moving into production? I’m guessing either she’s REALLY toxic, or the relationship between Sapochnik and HBO was…

The whole photo looks off - I think he’s got some kind of filter on it that’s making it all look a little plastic. 

I think calling them “the CBC” and “the BBC” may be due to being public broadcasters? Governmental organizations tend to keep the “the” -> “the FBI” “the IRS” etc.

Immunocompromised people won’t be able to attend either way - vaccination does not lower the spread of Omicron enough to make attending a 2,500 person event safe for anyone who is still trying to avoid catching covid. People who want to avoid infection should not be attending mass events, period.

I love the idea of a Ben Affleck Tony Stark

I wish I liked stop motion animation, because as an artform it’s very cool and takes impressive amounts of work and talent. But if I ignore the process and just look at the result - it’s just so offputting. Straight to the uncanny valley every time.

My understanding was that game mechanics are not copyrightable? That’s how Candy Crush managed to thrive despite being a blatant re-skin of Bejeweled. Maybe the actual crime was copying the name (and thus pretending to be the original), not the game itself? Would they have removed it if he’d called it “Word Guesser”…

Worse, there have already been two popular TV shows called “The 100" and “The 4400" that were both dark sci-fi dramas. I understand wanting to reference Agent 355, but couldn’t they have called it “Agency 355" or something to at least let us know it’s a spy film?

No, it’s nothing personal. Years back, some of the old Gawker sites had a problem with trolls spamming obscene and gory images in the comments, so they decided to banish all commenters into “the greys” unless they had been approved by a mod. Not a bad solution, except that in practice mods only approve commenters very…

Am I the only one that thinks Tom Holland really does look a lot like Fred Astaire? They’ve got a similar sort of boyishness and slight build. Gene Kelly is much stockier and more manly.

I think they’re intentionally trying to make her sound incompetent, because at the end of the day incompetence isn’t a crime. “The poor girl was in over her head” is probably the most sympathetic way they can spin the facts at hand. The alternative is that she was being reckless - so reckless it got someone killed.