On most days, I think of Jack Antonoff as the Brian Eno of banality, who scoops up artists at a turning point and filters them through his far-edge-of-accessible pop sound.

“What’s next for me, it looks like, is [an] Alien series for FX, taking on that franchise and those amazing films by Ridley Scott and James Cameron and David Fincher,” he said.

It’s been a long time since I saw it, but I remember liking Alien 3. I’ve heard about the various pieces that were supposed to make it into the final version and didn’t, but I thought it was a solid, effective SF thriller.

The first AvP movie isn’t good, but it’s not awful, especially for a Paul W. S. Anderson movie, and it stars Sanaa Lathan, like more movies should.

In retrospect, FF13 feels like the blueprint for FF15 and the remake. It builds on the continuous spaces of FFX, with no world map, and gives them a more cinematic appearance. Toward the end, it develops an almost open-world area. And its combat is more fluid than the previous menu systems, but it does not disguise…

Directors and performers often invent more backstory than they reveal to the audience. It’s a way to give the performances a sense of depth beyond the immediate needs of the plot, so that characters behave as if they have walked onto the screen with their lives already in motion. They may deliver their lines with…

I enjoyed the first game. Alas, my plans to play the others were thwarted when Apple dropped 32-bit support. So it goes.

Does this mean Hamlet and Horatio are gay because it seems to me that he’s way more interested in spending time with his servant buddy than Ophelia?

Despite what Mackie said, regardless of Casarosa’s intent, if you viewed Luca as a queer allegory—and, in doing so, it enriched your understanding of the Pixar film, and maybe even the way you look back on your own coming-of-age story—embrace that. You didn’t view the movie, or the series, or the piece of art wrong;…

He probably could’ve phrased it better, but I agree with the underlying sentiment 100%. It’s absurd that every male friendship gets distorted into a potential gay relationship, even when there’s no evidence beyond the relationship being just a male friendship. Happens with female friendships, too (see, e.g.,…

I loved Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The sequel was disappointing despite some fun ideas and abilities. And their Tomb Raider sequel had the best tombs of the new trilogy, even if the story was prone to heavyosity.

The sad thing is, she’s still an extremely good writer, and arguably a good critic, but only when she “gets it”, and surprisingly often, she just doesn’t “get it”. Reading her wikipedia entry I see this is actually not an uncommon criticism of her, apparently I’m not alone in thinking this.

He also made Absolute Power, which randomly I watched for the first time this week. (Boredom+Tubi)

That might be the lowest moment of Clints career and I’m not even joking

Richard Jewell had a lot of good acting but that stuff with Kathy Scruggs was really sleazy. Also I couldn’t help but notice the whole narrative of innocent man framed by media and FBI and the actual crazy right wing bomber isn’t really discussed. I’m not dumb Clint I know what your doing.

On a purely dramatic level, Clint Eastwood’s Chris Kyle is a perfectly compelling character. But given that American Sniper is a depiction that celebrates Kyle as a war hero and shows us his funeral, the movie fully snipes itself in the foot by lionizing a shitty guy.

Late Eastwood movies only seem to be popular or talked about when they’re very bad. Whenever he makes something genuinely interesting or good, it gets largely ignored. American Sniper is embarassingly terrible and it was a huge hit. I’ll never understand it.

The only thing audacious about 15:17 To Paris is how bad it is.

Dirty Harry is definitely a reactionary movie, although you could easily point to Magnum Force to say Dirty Harry the character is not.

...that’s the most pretentious fucking title I’ve ever heard.