There was only one musical TV series that truly earned its existence

I thought it was COVIDbola now.

Yep. The more unions strike in solidarity, the better. Even if actors don’t, there’s still Teamsters, editors, cinematographers, art directors, costume designers, directors, etc. It just takes one, really.

*dances manically*

So in other words, Hollywood’s non-union Mexican equivalent?

Right, who’s gonna tell Patti LuPone to shut up? She’d rip your arms off.

Kuods to them for trying a batshit storyline straight out of the SF days of yore, but yeah, it did not work very well (although Isaac starting to actually kind of care about the doc’s kids worked surprisingly well).

It took me a minute to grok that you meant “actors who played bad guys in Marvel movies,” not “actors who are bad guys.” I was like, what did Kurt Russell do?!?

perhaps we should be referring to Mozart as “The White Chevalier.”

Another day, another fight against the giant capitalists to try and claw back some of the colossal amount of wealth they’ve stolen from labor. Strike on.

Step 1. Generate thousands of poems with an AI

This has probably been said before, but I think the primary theme of this entire show is self-sabotage: the ways in which people can’t get out of their own way and keep doing things that screw themselves over, things that seem like they should be easily avoidable. But then we’re all familiar with the ways in which we…

We saw Renfield yesterday. The A.V. Club review (despite its usual dollop of wtf) was mainly on-target: it’s energetic enough to overcome the stupid stuff, and yeah, the CGI blood splatters were distractingly bad. Like, I normally don’t care if CGI is mediocre, but the blood in this movie looked like giant dollops of…

Yeah, Shazam 2 was kind of bloated and obvious, for lack of a better word, but it was also fun and well-structured. I think people underestimate (and often don’t understand) the value of a properly-structured narrative, where plot beats and character moments are properly set up and paid off.

Given how anemic Mario was as a character, and how relatively little dialogue he had, the fact that it was Chris Pratt was pretty clearly a “his name will draw people in even though any halfway decent non-famous voice actor could give the exact same performance.”

Rosemary’s Baby: Tokyo Drift

I think a sensible approach is that because box office numbers are public, but overseas licensing and streaming numbers are not, we the public have no idea. There have been countless movies in the past 5 years that did mediocre box office numbers and then were big hits on streaming, but that didn’t stop randos like us…

“It’s a-me, a-Macbeth!”

That’s a really dangerous thing to say. Can you imagine what the world would be like if more people believed this? It’s one thing to think it, but when you’ve got a platform and you say that kind of thing you’re influencing a lot of people, and normalizing this kind of thing is really going to hurt the art of…