Because then Ezra Miller wins the Oscar for Best Non-binary Actor for The Flash.

It’s not a monopoly problem, it’s a vertical integration problem. There are many Hollywood studios competing with each other. The issue is that they have all been absorbed by huge conglomerates who make money doing lots of things that have little to do with movie or TV production. When the studios were all standalone…

We probably shouldn’t be, but late night TV has always been a notoriously cutthroat industry. Johnny Carson was a fucking gangster. The way these shows have always worked is, the host is the god-emperor of the show, and everyone tiptoes around him. So Jimmy Fallon comes in hungover, occasionally snaps at staffers, and…

I get that it’s very popular and easy to pile on Fallon right now, but I didn’t find the Rolling Stone piece that damning. Nothing recounted was worse than anything that happened in an episode of The Larry Sanders Show. The younger generations just come across as being extremely fragile and unable to deal with a…

He probably should have taken whatever plea deal was on the table. Can’t say I have much sympathy, though.

The show has lots of obvious narrative issues that are really starting to plague every Disney+ Star Wars show except for Andor. The video game-inspired goal-based storytelling, characters having entire conversations that are only about the stakes of the plot, on-the-nose dialogue that lacks any nuance or ambiguity,…

I don’t think Aaron Paul is out there picketing because he is personally poor. He was well paid for the later seasons of BrBa, made money in residuals from AMC reruns, and parlayed the Jesse role into a pretty successful career as a working actor. I don’t think he’s telling this story because he hates Netflix and…

Even if they didn’t have sex right away, Elvis still spent four years grooming her while he was in his mid-to-late 20s. It’s gross and I don’t want to watch a movie about it.

I really don’t understand why Armstrong can’t shut up about this issue. It’s obvious he doesn’t care about women’s sports, and he certainly doesn’t care about fairness in athletic competition, so why does he feel so compelled to keep this going?

You’ve just made the greatest line reading in all of American cinema even better with this observation. Rewatching the scene, it appears that Hanna grabs the tie in one fluid motion after making an ass with his hands.

Nah, Clone Wars and Rebels is required viewing for this series, and more than that, the viewer is expected to remember every last character name and plot detail of kids-oriented shows. I watched the first few seasons of Clone Wars and like five episodes of Rebels, so I knew the gist of who everyone was, but I was…

And the concern that the studios are fighting over a shrinking pie is well founded. The movie/TV industry appears to be undergoing a similar shift to what the music industry experienced about 20 years ago.

I’m fine with them just never revisiting Thor. It’s weird that they never made a standalone movie taking place entirely on Asgard, with fleshed out roles for the Warriors Three and more palace intrigue and stuff, but that ship sailed after they blew up Asgard and killed off all but a few hundred Asgardians (including…

Don’t even get me started on that! Even within the very narrow confines established by prior movies, in order for anything fun to happen during the series they still had to bend canon to the point of breaking by having Leia and Obi-Wan go on a wacky adventure that nobody ever mentions again, *and* staging two separate…

With this show in particular it seems like the four additional episodes were almost a professional courtesy extended to let them wrap up the story while effectively canceling the series. It wasn’t really a renewal. The unions absolutely had to strike, but strikes always lead to casualties. In this case, the studio…

Obi-Wan was just absolutely tied up in knots by the existing continuity. It’s not just that we know Obi-Wan and Leia will be okay, it’s that there was a long list of things that couldn’t happen — characters who couldn’t meet each other, knowledge that couldn’t be revealed, battles that couldn’t happen — without…

Brilliant!

Yeah it’s like how everyone was groaning when Super Mario Bros. made a billion dollars, because now “Nintendo is gonna make Zelda and Metroid and Donkey Kong movies.” Well, yeah. They’re a video game company that owns a lot of video game IP. Mattel owns a lot of toy IP. They can either not make additional movies after…

Eventually.

So I do think that Cronos counts as a vampire movie, but it’s missing several core elements that I usually associate with the genre. In particular, the element of seduction is missing — usually there’s an ancient vampire offering eternal life, and there’s some level of conflict over the choice to accept the vampire’s…