I’ll tell you something that shocked me, even if JJ Abrams had been given the unenviable task of wrapping up the main plot of the Star Wars movie for good with something like 18 months to put together a whole film due to Colin Trevorrow (whose ideas were actually more interesting, even if it pains me to acknowledge…

Her job is to preserve the franchise and the brand. Lord & Miller are great when it comes to repurposing “intellectual properties” that have no actual reason to exist on the screen. There were no real expectations about a film version of 21 Jump St. or a Lego movie, so they had every opportunity to make something out…

Hey, that’s quite a low bar. Seeing the prequels was about as joyful as having a mandatory routine health checkup. And The Rise of Skywalker was one of my most miserable experiences with a blockbuster. It looked like something designed to entertain a 4-year-old kid with ADHD by shifting the attention to a new planet…

Disney completed the Fox acquisition in March 2019.

The issue with Lord & Miller is that they had decided to go off-script without telling the producers (including Lawrence Kasdan who had written the screenplay with his son), while they were supposed to be more like Taika Waititi, who injects some levity in the dialogs but doesn’t challenge the whole structure of the…

There’s Doom Patrol, though...

Maybe it’s a sequel to a different limited series at HBO, Vice-Principles.

There’s one huge omission here, The Adventures of Pinocchio, the adaptation by Luigi Comencini as a TV miniseries, which was later reedited as a feature film. It was co-written by Luchino Visconti’s usual writing partner, and it was very well received at the time. It stars Nino Manfredi (Gepetto), Gina Lollobrigida…

It’s even more fucked up than you assume. They sure beat even Pink Floyd or Talking Heads.

He spent a lot of money on paintings and drawings by Edward Hopper, being possibly the largest private collector of his works. I once went to an Hopper retrospective, and one work out of four or five (not the most famous, of course), was “Courtesy of Mr. Steve Martin”. He even narrated a documentary on Hopper.

I’d argue that the mother isn’t brought back from the dead in the last scene of A.I. The mother was shown repeatedly to reject David in real life. And suddenly, she turns into a loving, accepting mother to him.

Dylan was at some point contractually obligated to deliver a new album every year. Hence some records that should have never seen the light of day during the eighties, like Dylan & The Dead.

There’s a couple of versions of “Mississippi” on Tell Tale Signs, the Bootleg Series entry that covers Dylan’s later years in the studio. One of them is actually quite close to Crow’s version. I definitely find the slower Love and Theft recording more affecting. Anyway, Dylan didn’t have any harsh word against Crow…

Under the Red Sky and Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 3 (yep, that’s the title) were recorded at the same time, as Dylan only had a few weeks available before going back on tour, and he would switch studios over the course of the day. Hence the lack of inspiration. The best songs from UTRS are actually new recordings from Oh…

Wikipedia lists a study that sets the average height for Non-Hispanic Whites to 5 ft. 10 (age from 20 to 39).

Dylan denies the connections between the songs and his health scare for one good reason. The album was completed months before he got sick. Some of Dylan’s denials ring hollow (he says that Blood on the Tracks isn’t about the disintegration of his marriage), not this one.

Oh, please, no.

Ian Fleming tried to do this in a novel, The Spy Who Loved Me, where Bons is just a supporting character in a first person story told by  a Canadian woman, the manager of a motel, and it can be charitably described as a failed experiment. Up to the point that Fleming contractually gave the producers the rights to the…

It’s out of the question, for obvious reasons (focus is on the reboot), but she’s getting a Ballerina spinoff from John Wick.

A couple of years ago, I was on a general interest French-speaking message board that has a section about TV shows, and a thread about Discovery. The main contributor to the thread would lambast week after week Sonequa Martin-Green as the one person responsible for the show sucking ass. Apparently, the show would have…