Yeah, strong agreement. I kept hoping against hope that in the extended version the palantir would fall out of his coat when he jumped on the pyre, but... nada. Easily Jackson/Walsh/Boyans’ worst choice when adapting the books.

Wait seriously? Is there a link to that?

The charge of the Rohirrim is, to this day, one of the most amazing things I have ever experienced in a cinema. And a lot of that is that Jackson, gobsmackingly, figured out how to correctly use a brand new type of f/x technology (computer-generated crowds) perfectly the very first time he used it. The cutting from…

I’m really starting to think that Straczynski’s plan to save money on B5's production costs by filming in an abandoned nuclear reactor that had been built on top of a Native American burial mound was penny wise but pound foolish.

Good things keep happening!  It’s weird and a little disturbing, frankly. I’m not used to it any more.

Just for the TV release, I think?  Pretty sure the original VHS and DVD releases, at least, were uncensored.

Thank you, leaving off the Loretta Swit episode was unconscionable.

Gillan is, I think, one of those interesting types who looks substantially better when done up in “normal person” makeup and costume than in standard Hollywood runway/”glamour” warpaint as in the stock photo they chose to go with this story.

Now if only Arthur Darvill can start getting some regular work in the states.

Damnit, that photo of Ghilslane Maxwell gets me every time: she’s a dead ringer for an ex and I’ve spent now like two straight years having to do a double-take every time it gets posted, which as it turns out is a lot.

I think the synthesis position here is that if there was a conspiracy, it was a conspiracy to make sure that nobody intervened while Epstein made the obvious choice.

The sad thing is, Carano in The Mandalorian is practically Stanislavski when you compare it to some of her earliest film work. “Haywire” is an entertaining series of fights scenes that comes to an immediate halt any time Carano attempts to deliver dialogue. It’s actually kinda heartening that she managed to improve…

Yeah, one of the reasons that I still like the story despite the ways in which it’s aged poorly is that abusive teachers are absolutely not something Dahl made up out of whole cloth, and it makes perfect sense that someone who survived the english boarding school system would long for a bit of gentleness in an…

That’s... kinda exactly what I said?

Fight Club has aged more poorly than possibly any film in recent history, but in that regard I honestly feel a little sorry for both Fincher and Palahniuk: it’s only in cold hindsight that we see that the sort of people that the novel is mercilessly mocking would also be exactly the sort to miss that they were being…

If there’s not a Stark Toaster available for sale by mid-November, an entire department at Disney is getting fired.

Never saw the movies, but it was definitely a large part of the plot of the final season.  (Samantha’s much-younger boytoy steps up and starts acting like a real partner when she falls ill.)

Yeah, was about to say: that’s practically progressive by Hollywood standards. Let’s remember that what finally drove Roger Moore to quit the role of James Bond was the sobering realization that not only was he older than Tanya Roberts, he was older than her mother.

Yeah, that’s what I was alluding to w/r/t issues -- the takeaway moral of the story really seemed to be “superhuman powers are necessary in the case of women acting mannish”.

With all due respect to Ms. Thompson, I’m really hard-pressed to think of an adaptation of a children’s book less in need of a remake than DeVito’s Matilda and I can’t imagine any way to improve on Pam Ferris’ performance as Ms. Trunchbull.