This wasn’t just unsubtle. It was ham-fisted (unfortunately not Hamm-fisted)

Zack Snyder at this point is essentially Troy Duffy with better people skills.

Regarding Poker Face, Penultimate doesn’t mean third. It’s second from the end. Antepenultimate is third from the end (the notion is useful for Ancient Greek declinations)

A major plus for his performance in Dungeons & Dragons is that he’s actually playing Boris Johnson, with a layer of contrived warmth that can’t hide some pathological narcissism.

Chapek was CEO while The Marvels was being produced.

Barrera probably wanted to address injustice and support the weak when she started posting out on Instagram.

Sledge Hammer!, “A Clockwork Hammer”

They were supposed to give away a year to everybody buying one of their devices, then production on all shows was delayed due to the pandemic, and they changed it into 18 months.

This was originally supposed to be a feature film, with several chapters. And it showed. That’s a recurring issue with many projects on streaming services. You have the feeling that it was initially developed as a film, and that it could have made a good or great film if they had managed to keep it down to two or…

“stock price affect-ingly bad”?

Blatty was also an extremely funny guy. Remember that he made an impression when he appeared on You Bet Your Life, with Groucho Marx, where he stated that he would use his earnings from the game to stop working for a few months and write a book. The book wasn’t The Exorcist, but some comic novel, that eventually got…

An underrated seventies sequel: French Connection 2. Directed by John Frankenheimer, who was supposed to handle the Exorcist prequel, but had to step down as he was too ill, to be replaced by Paul Schrader. Schrader, of course, got Dominion taken out of his hands, to be given to Renny Harlin instead.

Outside of Deliverance, Boorman had a seventies run that was full of weirdness: Leo the Last, Zardoz, Exorcist II.

Buckingham is talented, but toxic, as he would still undermine Stevie Nicks constantly, and everyone seemed to feel better after he was gone. It may not have been the full “classic” lineup (even if Fleetwood Mac had a few of them over the decades), but the remaining members then had some degree of a satistifying…

And young Ahsoka in the flashbacks. The actress brought (or was allowed to bring) some welcome energy into something that’s otherwise extremely pedestrian, even if the fate of at least one galaxy is involved. Ezra has also started to bring some charisma.

11. Why everybody in the show seems to be on decaf?

Even if some elements from the script were still to be fleshed out at the time of his death, a lot of stuff from the final part of A.I. comes directly from Kubrick’s drafts. For instance, I doubt that Spielberg would have added on his own a scene where the mechas from 4000 communicate through physical contact, in a…

When she got her big start due to The Tree of Life, there was a baseless rumor about Jessica Chastain being Ron Howard’s illegitimate daughter. As Ron Howard tends to give his children the name of the place where they were conceived as a middle name, it provided in the fourth season of Arrested Development the…

The final sequence makes much more sense if you consider that the 30th century robots mostly want to study the behavior of the only remaining 21st century outdated specimen, who had lived with actual humans and was programmed to be human-like, while the species is long extinct. They give him a fairy-tale ending,…

It already exists, it’s called Superstore. In this one, there’s more balance in the Jim-Pam relationship, as Jim (who looks like Ryan Howard) is a screwup who’s forced to take a menial job at a store and Pam is his superior at work. Dwight is a woman, Stanley is in a wheelchair, Kevin is an Hawaiian woman, etc.