Computer: ‘It is impossible.’

Serious answer to the question: I don’t think there’s an easy solution. Everyone has to decide for themselves on a case-by-case basis, while being aware that there will always be a spectrum of opinion from those who will excuse the worst possible behaviour and, at the other end of the spectrum, those wanting public…

At least I got some amusement out of Strange going all-in on the necromancy at the end of MoM. To me Quantumania was like MoM without even that minor consolation. They’re both bad films and I can’t recommend either one, but to me MoM was mediocre while Quantumania was *aggressively* mediocre, almost as if the…

Nolan a serious guy? I for one found Interstellar hilarious.

My Neighbor Totoro is a stealth sequel to Grave of the Fireflies?

Possibly. Either way, even as a film I couldn’t get into, it was still Soderbergh trying something new.

‘I anticipate...disaster!’

Not a Soderbergh completist here, but I have seen a lot of his films and only really disliked one (No Sudden Move — trying too hard to be a smart noir, the first half hour consisted entirely of increasingly convoluted plans discussed at length by the characters).

I know, right. What are the chances that a huge butterfly lands on your abdomen right in the middle of a song?

The editors have brought in a strict preposition budget.

I sure that’s how they already perceive their life in Hollywood.

I despise Kevin Spacey and all he stands for, but I am not willing to forgo LA Confidential over it. (It helps that he is not one of the leads.)

How red is the red door?

‘...a comprehensible experience...’

Scalp parasites is the perfect term for Ticketek.

Yep. Nomadland was banned in China. And you’d think, why on Earth would China be upset about anything in Nomadland? Well, it wasn’t the film, it was one line the director had said years earlier in an interview for Filmmaker magazine about growing up in China where ‘there were lies everywhere.’ That’s it.

Barbie is more interested in topology than cartography.

Yeah, was gonna say the reason so many silent films are lost is that old film stock decays rapidly in normal conditions and is highly flammable, so it’s dangerous and expensive just to store it. The cost of keeping a movie on a streaming service is the cost of a few gigabytes on a small number of servers.

If this prompted streamers to generate a steady supply of great content, I’d be all for it. Oh wait, you mentioned entertainment executives...

Mathew, are you sure that the residuals are entirely dependent on the subscriber base? I would be very surprised if there was no factor for viewer numbers. Otherwise Stranger Things would be generating the same residuals as Space Force.