Lair of the White Worm has to hold some kind of record for the largest number of slumming great actors in a sleazy horror film. Hugh Grant, Peter Capaldi and Amanda Donohoe!  It’s a completely insane movie, but compulsively watchable.

Chow and Yeoh had both been trying to break through in American movies for years, and it would never really happen for either of them.

Here is a word about Eternals 2:

I like the cut of your jib, sirrah!

I think the worst aspects of both the Moffat era (which I liked in spite of this) and the Chibnall era (which I did not) was a tendency to go overboard on reviving characters from the original series that only complete obsessives cared about, so I strongly hope that Monsoon gets to play an origi—

Someone better plugged in and/or with a better memory and understanding can correct me

I mean fair enough, but conversely? “Leading actor in big-budget Hollywood movies” is a really nice job, and one that notoriously far, far fewer people get to do than are clearly able to do.  So I really don’t think that “don’t get into it with your romantic partner in such a way that the cops end up getting called…

This.  One of the reasons I love that movie is that to a first approximation nobody develops plot-specific amnesia or stupidity. Gorman, Burke and Hudson’s failures are in keeping with their characters.  Nearly everyone else does their level best: it’s just a bad idea to touch down on a planet where nearly the entire…

This, Gimme Shelter and Woodstock.

That would actually be... a great idea.

As a back-door pilot for a Gideon the Ninth series it had its moments, but “tonally uneven” is about the most generous description I could give to it, and a lot of it was just flat out bad.

So on the one hand this looks like a film without a single original thought, and perhaps any thought at all, in its pretty head.

So... tools for operating on mutant women?

“Better than Strange 2 and Thor 4" is both 100% correct and a damning indictment of the current state of the House of Marvel.

Where did you find that interview w/ the Doctor Strange screenwriter? I watched that entire film wondering what the hell happened and that certainly explains it.

Just one? Okay fine: Primer. The time machine is literally a big plastic box. It’s the best time travel film ever made.

This. Speaking as, for better or worse, a lifetime fan of Doctor Who: if crap SFX were a barrier to telling a compelling story, it would be a smaller and sadder universe.  Worry less about pixel alignment and worry more about characters, motivations and dialogue.

Even better — because Homicide crossed over with St. Elsewhere, Munch was a one-man nexus in the Tommy Westphall Continuum.

Aw man. And just like that, the curtain is drawn on the Munch Cinematic Universe.

I think that’s a lot of it.  A lot of these dudes did not, to put it mildly, make much money on their output, and had to tour constantly if they wanted to make any money on their material.  Life on the road is a grind, healthcare in the US is a joke if you’re not rich (and sometimes even then), and a lot of stuff that…