Yep, I have no sympathy for anyone complaining about spoilers in the text of a story clearly labelled a recap, but even for recaps the writers here should treat headlines and subheads as no-spoiler zones. I mean, this is basic reviewer etiquette, right?

It’s only 1% of families, but each family has 13 kids.

RT’s metrics have always been overly simplistic, but fine if you understood it well enough to know that a great challenging film is likely to score lower than a middling crowdpleaser. But even that old metric has become increasingly open to abuse by both studios trying to boost their films and review bombers trying to…

Fair enough. I wasn’t putting down the actors, more encouraging them to strike as well, but I guess SAG-AFTRA has its reasons for exempting the soaps. Thanks for helping me understand.

Spider-Man 2 was released in 2004 and made $27.6 million that Monday. Adjusting for inflation, that’s $44.7 million. Barbie made $26.1, which is great, but it’s nowhere near the success of SM2 even accounting for the changing demographics of cinema attendance.

It’s worse than ChatGPT. This is nu-AV Club. Take a short 3-para report from another site (in this case Deadline), pick out a few points of interest that someone else came up with, then drop them somewhere in five paras of Lorem Ipsum for Movies.

Likewise: here are some great long movies: 2001, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Zodiac, Godfather Part 2, Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Samurai, The Right Stuff, Wolf of Wall Street, Stalker. Amazingly, some of them are highly entertaining all the way through.

If ever there was a great case for striking in sympathy, this is it. Whatever the arrangements that allowed the cast of the soaps to keep working with SAG-AFTRA approval, the time has come to support the writers. Even from a purely selfish view, soap actors can’t afford to let the studios win this fight.

The trick is to resize the window (it can still be 80-90% of the screen size to make it readable) then hit the refresh button on your browser. It’s annoying, but quick and simple and much, much better than clicking through a slideshow.

Great review. If we could get more than one piece a month from Mr Cogshell I would be very happy. Give him a column as well and I would be even happier.

Of all the reasons for faking your own abduction, I would never have guessed wanting to drop out of college.

There are several official patron saints of France, including Joan of Arc. The Archangel Michael is also on the list, which strikes me as cheating.

Ah, the weirdness of history. Joan of Arc was handed over for trial to a church court in France run by French clerics. Yes, at the time the region was under direct English rule, but it still astonishes me that the Catholic Church made her a martyr when it was the Catholic Church that sentenced her to burn at stake.…

That’s what screen recording is for :-)

Yeah, it would be interesting to know, and I suspect one of the things that is going to have to change is that either the streamers will be forced to divulge their numbers (with frequent independent audits to keep them honest), or the entertainment industry unions will change tack and demand much more upfront to…

To be fair, Sachs doesn’t seem to be complaining about the financial impact of the N-17 rating, he was pointing out the MPAA’s hypocrisy and the way it feeds into mainstream homophobia and restricts younger people’s access to depictions of any non-standard sexuality.

He’s more of a recurring guest star than a series regular, still the role is crucial and he is perfect in it...for total residuals of $800?

This is what happens when a lazy hack editor (‘let’s do a worst ever biopics slide show’) gives the job to a lazy hack writer (‘I’ll just google ‘razzie biopic’, and done!).

Apparently it was still in post-production and needed SFX work and some reshoots. So not finished, but almost.

It’s possible my expectations were set at The Americans.