We’ll probably learn that the Xenomorphs aren’t that scary once you get to know them and they assimilate much as other immigrant groups do. They do have a problem with getting drunk from spoiled milk, though.

It’s a perfectly cromulent name.

Or Strangest Things, but maybe that paints them in a corner if they want a third series.

Not if it is Bill Murray! He can get away with anything like eating fries off your plate! (not so much with unwanted sexual attention, at least lately)

I wonder if anyone’s created a fan-edit of LOST that would cut out the bloat and subplots that went nowhere. The ending would still suck, but it would be a better experience getting there.

If the Force and the Jedi were really as powerful as the prequels and other stuff claiming to depict the era show them as, why did Conan Motti (apparently that’s his name according to “Wookiepedia”) mock Vader’s “sad devotion to that ancient religion” in the original Star Wars? Or Han Solo likewise mock the concept of…

This is another one of those movies like American Graffiti (although this is certainly more violent) which are looking back at the early 1960s from the viewpoint of the early 1970s. It is so weird how much culture changed in that decade that it made sense to make period pieces. People (including me) laughed at the…

While certainly many US sports teams have/had mascots of questionable sensitivity, in the the case of the Philadelphia Flyers (hockey), they didn’t have a mascot at all before Gritty. Apparently the design was inspired by the mascot for the Phillies, the Philadelphia baseball team, who is also vaguely Muppety, but not…

A24 makes “elevated horror” where the horror is psychological. Gritty is just plain horrific on a non-metaphorical level. More a Blumhouse thing.

Or Phil Hartman’s “Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer” — appropriate because Vance has a law degree (from Yale!) and yet puts on that cheesy Hee-Haw hillbilly act.

Although with Microsoft’s heavy investment in OpenAI, they kind of already have merged. A better example would be Google’s Gemini merging with ChatGPT or Copilot.

In the movie that partly inspired the series, 1970's “Colossus: The Forbin Project” (and the novels it was based on), there were two rival military AIs — Colossus (the US/NATO AI) and Guardian (the USSR/Warsaw Pact AI). They eventually join forces against humanity.

Oh, that makes more sense.

I can’t speak for his real-life personality (certainly having an affair, and child, with his maid, whom he had power over, wasn’t cool), but Arnold always had a pretty good comic sensibility. Not just here, but in Last Action Hero, Twins, and Kindergarten Cop, for example.

I don’t think it is unreasonable that somebody who took pride in his fitness and appearance would prefer to be remembered in his prime rather than be the source of jokes by people who would make fun of how despite how good his exercise and diet were, that age eventually took its toll on him.

How about an “Outland” series? I want to know about how mining is going on Io and whether Sean Connery’s character really improved things for the workers there.

which is a fun little reminder that every dead-mall chain restaurant with shit on its walls that tries to sell you fried cheese at $20 a pop is owned by some massive multinational with a name like The Thorax Industrial Group.

Maya Rudolph interview predictably derailed because she can’t stop talking about how much she loves Beyoncé

There’s a lot of time before release. Maybe he’ll still be PM, maybe not.

Maybe there’s a possibility of perjury?