I figure there’ll be a bridge season, covering life in Jackson between the end of the first game and the opening of the second. Basically, the flashbacks from Part II, but presented linearly and significantly expanded upon, and we don’t get into Part II proper until season 3.

The previous article has Oher claiming the Tuohys’ deal earned them $225,000, whereas he got nothing.

The only distinction I’m drawing is that if Oher was under some restriction which meant he couldn’t claim financial recompense for his story being told, that doesn’t mean that the same restriction applied to the Tuohys. They were also a major part of the story being told (even if their roles were heavily exaggerated…

Presumably though, even if no one could profit off of Oher’s name, the Tuohy’s could still profit off their names. I mean, Sandra Bullock was the star of the movie and I’m pretty sure she wasn’t playing Oher.

Cut (Park’s short from Three... Extremes) is pretty memorable, it’s the one where the female lead from Oldboy is hooked up to a piano marionette-style, and has her fingers cut off one by one in order to torture her movie director husband.

It’s a great site, I only wish their reviews hadn’t grown so infrequent over recent years.

Although by the time they identified him, the 15 year statute of limitations had expired. It’s since been extended to 25 years and then abolished entirely, in part thanks to the existence of Memories of Murder, but those changes didn’t apply retrospectively.

I thought the QAnon bullshit was that everyone even marginally to the left of the likes of DeSantis and Trump is in on secret child trafficking taking place in non-existent pizzeria basements.

Also, when people talk about the golden age of [insert decade of choice], they’re largely thinking of the good movies (and maybe a handful of notably bad ones), while the forgettable mediocrity that makes up the bulk of output at any given time is understandably forgotten.

“We have to actively not choose the garbage”

In principle, I didn’t mind the idea of it being a prequel and therefore taking Elena out of the picture.

Well, yeah, except my point was that in this specific case, for reasons unknown, they apparently didn’t need it dumbed down.

a US remake of Squid Game is now in active development at Netflix

Yeah, there’s no way they could’ve just gone to a clothing store and done the exact same thing...

Scott was definitely the driving force behind Prometheus and Covenant, with the writers almost certainly working to his instruction.

Aside from some slightly cheap looking effects, it was pretty damn good.

Both can be true.

I think she unravels the second anyone doesn’t bend the knee, which doesn’t require there to be another Targaryen in the game — any candidate for the throne with a decent amount of Westerosi support would be enough. Aside from the catharsis of killing some slavers, she’s never presented as a particularly just ruler,…

I don’t know if they weren’t allowed to use the stories, but doing so wouldn’t have worked. You couldn’t really have any of the branching storytelling they’re so good at — it would’ve ended up as a linear hack-and-slash action game and not had anything like the same impact.

I think that the last couple books not materialising suggests that Martin introduced those storylines with no clue about what necessary narrative function they would provide, has struggled to come up with anything, and perhaps now feels more pressure to justify their existence as not-red-herrings in order to “prove”…