I know its a cameo and I was gonna watch it anyway because the original is a real blast, but the fact Angela Lansbury shows up for even a second is enough to put a big smile on my face.

O12 was going for a New Wave/Mod Cinema vibe, with the central caper(s) being even more inconsequential to the proceedings than the first one. Yeah, it didn’t work for everyone, and got dunked for the whole Julia Roberts thing. But I love its tone, music, and yeah, that laser dancing scene is wonderful. I’m stoked for…

Yeah. The MA/NY line has a few good ones too, but NJ definitely has the highest good diner density in the northeast.

That aberration doesn't even look like the original one.

Almost $4 for what is basically a bean and beef burrito with some sauce on it?  Pass.

“sequel(s?)”

In some ways that’s the sign of a good mystery though. As much as we love detectives like Holmes or Monk or Columbo, those work best in short stories or episodic TV, where there’s little point in caring about the other characters and the mysteries are resolved mostly procedurally. A good mystery novel - or movie -…

In fairness, at least you acknowledge that it looks like “a sloppy mess” because that picture is not appetizing to me. 

Those pictures aren’t pretty, Dennis. Seriously, can’t you get an Instaprat to slut those pictures up and make the damned thing look edible?

saw this last week. it fucking owns. it might be my new favorite Johnson film

Knives Out was wonderful but I was originally skeptical that “Benoit Blanc” needed to live on in the sequel(s?), but this does sound very good. And now that he’s left Bond behind, I need all the Daniel Craig I can get!

Perfect review, I agree: tastes the same (great), very small (not great), expensive for the size (bad).

No mention of Werner Herzog’s equally bizarre non-sequel Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans?

I saw this in the theater when it first came out. I thought it was very good, I’m glad I saw it, and I’m glad it exists, but I never need to see it again. “Requiem for a Dream” falls into that category too.

Go crazy?

This story has always fascinated me because I work in finance and the typical due diligence for investing in or buying a company is usually the full proctological. Deals fall apart all the time simply because a company can’t produce requested data. The default position is always skepticism. The fact that there were no…

Somewhat related, I was listening to the Plain English podcast on the FTX collapse and Sam Bankman-Fried, and one of the really revelatory parts for me there was how directly the host compared SBF to Holmes. How they both played up on these myths about being brilliant outsiders who represented something different…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

Who would have thought dealing with a theocracy could be so limiting?