Yeah, he was super nervous and shaky initially. A lot of the bad guest hosts (except Dr. Oz) would probably have shown similar improvements once they got beyond the 1 or 2 shooting days they were initially given to audition. But Ken has really matured into the role and he’s just the natural choice going forwards.

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It’s kind of weird that this many installments in, they’ve done about a dozen movies where Bond disobeys a direct order and goes rogue to settle a personal score, but they’ve never really done a movie that explores the community of 00 agents.

The actor who played Larry Boy Barese is a Gambino associate who was active during and after production of the show. Albert Barese and Matt Bevilaqua were also convicted of crimes…

The cast of The Sopranos included several actual mobsters who were later arrested for their crimes. 14-year-old Lady Gaga smoking on set is like the 300th most illegal thing that happened during production of that show.

They wouldn’t have to spend anywhere near $100 million to release the Ayer cut. With the Snyder cut, they had to redo all the effects for Snyder’s footage because post was never completed on that stuff before Whedon reshot the entire third act and large chunks of the rest of the movie. The Snyder “cut” as it existed…

I always feel like you can’t blame the filmmakers for constructing their story assuming the viewer is coming in cold, when all of their surprises will inevitably be revealed in set photos, cast lists and trailers.

Something that also landed for me after watching the movie, which never connected for me watching the show, was the way that Dickie seals his own son’s fate by mentoring Tony in the way he does. Obviously the show always made it clear that Tony has an Oedipal streak where he’s driven to engage in both symbolic incest…

I’ll stick up for The Many Saints of Newark. The flaws are certainly there — particularly in the way that the significance of Leslie Odom’s character and the Tony: Year One material is all being saved for a sequel that will probably never be made. But the movie holds up better after a rewatch, and did provide…

Wasn’t Murtaugh one week away from retirement in the first movie… which came out 32 years ago?

They never did anything fun with the Kelvin timeline conceit. In their second bite of the apple they just remade Khan, and then that third movie is not really impacted in any significant way by the changes to the timeline.

Looks like he gained the COVID 19.

I don’t think he even has to forfeit his game check, which is about $1.3 million. Think about that — while millions of average workers lost thousands of dollars they couldn’t afford when they were forced into a 10-day unpaid quarantine after becoming infected at work prior to vaccine availability, he literally gets…

My interpretation of the significance of the parallel parking is that, beyond the editing adding tension and suspense to the scene, if Meadow had parked like a sane person she would have been sitting next to Tony in the booth, blocking Members Only Guy’s shot as he exited the bathroom door.

I’m surprised there’s been little discussion about this over the years, but Meadow’s survival is questionable. She enters the diner just as her father is shot in the head, and she has a clear line of sight to Members Only Guy. More than that, she is now blocking his only exit, because she’s standing right in the…

So I’ve been on team “Tony died” since about 10 minutes after the finale originally aired. I think Tony’s death is so obvious that Chase did not even originally intend for the ending to be ambiguous, and rather that he viewed the final sequence as a creative way to show Tony’s death from his POV without actually…

My problem with this interpretation is — Tony isn’t exactly on edge during the final scene. In Holsten’s, he’s the most relieved we’ve seen him in years. He thinks all his mob enemies are dead, AJ and Meadow are both in a better place, his only real concern is Carlo flipping. But the FBI has already flipped several…

I would argue the essential component of the Terminator formula is the fistfight (involving at least one robot) in an industrial setting for the fate of humanity, which was established at the end of the first film with Kyle and Sarah vs. the T-800. T2 introduces a clever tweak to the formula by swapping out Kyle for a…

I view the Terminator franchise as having a similar issue to Jurassic Park — the first movie is all well and good, but you can never make a Jurassic Park movie where the dinosaurs all stay in their cages, and you can never make a Terminator movie that doesn’t devolve into a robot fistfight for the fate of humanity.

Of course its cultural significance is waning among younger adults who grew up with Harry Potter. They’re adults now. I was out trick-or-treating with my kids last weekend and there are still plenty of Harry Potter costumes. The children don’t read JK Rowling’s deranged tweets. Most parents don’t discuss whether or…