In addition to Bond, Spielberg had one reference in mind when he made Raiders, French film That Man from Rio. Spielberg was a huge fan of that Jean-Paul Belmondo movie, which he had seen something like at least nine times. It’s more of a light comedy than Raiders (and it’s delightful in that regard, with scenes shot…

It’s not really a plot hole, as it’s explained later. The Dial of Destiny wasn’t a proper time traveling device. It was rigged by Archimedes himself to transport anyone using it to Syracuse during the siege. It was supposed to give them the illusion of a choice, while there was just one possible output.

Commentary Tracks of the Damned. It would just take having new releases with commentary tracks.

Appropriately, it was Matt Schimkowitz’ dog who typed the section about Greystoke.

My take on Prometheus is that Scott saw an opportunity to gain at last control of the Alien franchise by promising to the producers some horror scif-fi R-rated 3D trilogy that had Avatar potential. Of course, Scott being Scott, he delivered something with terrific photography and production design, but a terrible…

The movie didn’t give us closure for the cat subplot. It can only be ranked as an abject failure.

Monsieur Spade was an asinine mess, with one of the most ridiculous finale ever shot.

I’d settle for a spoken word album, based on his poems from At Home with Amy Sedaris.

It’s slightly different for these movies, at least it was for the first one. These parts don’t take more than a few weeks of shooting for most of the cast members. It’s a matter of who has some space in their schedule, as Johnson and the casting director have three or four names lined up, in case their first pick…

Most of the good will for the show came from the pilot episode, directed by Michael Mann, and specifically from the opening sequence, which was a flash forward to events that finally happened in season 2. It really needed to be shown because otherwise people would have felt cheated. The pilot bought a lot of interest…

“Hey guys, I’ve fond the perfect guest. He was on a cult show, he’s done voices on a beloved Disney movie, he was an actual superhero and he’s also the lead in a major adaptation that’s getting released this summer. We can’t go wrong with Zachary Levi, I’m telling you…”

If you were expecting a revealing, hard-hitting officially sanctioned documentary on The Beach Boys, you need to watch any officially sanctioned project about The Beach Boys released in the last 30 years to understand why it can’t happen.

Thank god HBO is giving J. Smith-Cameron a spotlight post-Succession.

Richard Dreyfuss was still high on his Oscar for The Goodbye Girl. All That Jazz was rather a tough sell (Columbia even later preferred to split risks with Fox), but his attachment helped a lot to get the project greenlit. Dreyfuss may have not Fosse’s first choice, especially as he wasn’t a dancer, Fosse actually want…

Lasseter was apparently a credit hog, and was able for years to remain at his place because he was supposedly irreplaceable.

Lightyear flopping because of the same-sex kiss (which lasts all of one second, and is just tender and anything but passionate) and “woke Disney” was just stupid shit spread by some right-wing trolls who want to blame everything wrong on “wokeness”. It got the film banned from a few foreign markets, but it didn’t…

Pixar was hurt by the pandemic much more than The Walt Disney Animation Studios. The WDAS only had one project moved to Disney+, Raya and the Last Dragon. Encanto was released after the pandemic was over. The box office was still recovering, but it got very positive reviews, it got a lot of buzz from just the songs,…

Have you seen Luck, which he produced for Skydance Animation/Apple TV+? It’s awful, as it definitely lacks the “critical eye” he was supposedly famed for. It’s especially cruel to compare it to Monsters Inc., the closest equivalent at Pixar. Everything you need to know about how Monstropolis works is shown in the…

Contrary to what the article says, this year’s layoffs are for the staff they had hired to work on now canceled Disney+ shows, as Bob Iger has decided to scale back the amount of exclusives for the streaming service, which was a strategy by Bob Chapek.

Don’t forget that Craig was supposed to have a cameo in Multiverse of Madness as Balder the Brave, and that his wife was in Black Widow.