dr-darke
D.R. Darke
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::raises hand:: I used to own all of Pauline Kael’s collections of movie reviews—my ex-wife threw them out after she got a cat that would show her displeasure by urinating on everything low enough for her to reach it, including my Kael books!

I blame that Hack Fraud™ Alex Kurtzman, who’s fucking up NuTREK over on Paramount+, myself.

Like that’s ever stopped Tarantino before!

Unlike the sound revolution, which practically happened overnight, it took longer for color to become standard in the film industry.

Again—you’re missing everything else bad Corden did in the article: Showing up late, telling the director his job....

I think y’all missed Corden showing up late for the taping AND telling the director his job part.

Two episodes of DOCTOR WHO—and I didn’t like him either time!

capeo, thanks!

I guess if Barsanti relitigates the sequels it gets more clicks than actually talking to people in the industry.

Oh, FFS! Does it matter if his response was “diplomatic” or not?

Why should it? “...formulaic, anonymously made corporate franchise products” have done great for Marvel and sporadically for DC so far!

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Hate to say this to you, Nilus, but Shazam! is rated PG-13. The warning is right there in the MPA rating—or should be that this film really isn’t for kids under 13.

I can’t say I have an opinion about this “Hellen Mirren” one way or the other.

Hearing about his behavior on the Black Adam set seems to have wrecked Dwayne Johnson’s “Likable Tough Guy” persona pretty decisively.

I blame Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Before you go on, Disco Sucks?

Meyers’s track record to date makes those huge budgets sound...not entirely unreasonable. Of course, those presuppose a theatrical release patronized by wine moms and their daughters and nieces....

So I take it you Met the Fabelmans, and that was all you needed?

You’re missing the one thing that jacks the price up so much—back-end deals, or to be precise the lack of them from streaming services. If you want name actors like Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Owen Wilson, and Michael Fassbender for your Netflix Original Feature, you can’t say “I’ll give you $2M now, and 2% of