I love Hackman as an actor but I’ve always heard that he’s prickly son of a bitch and that story about The Royal Tanenbaums rings true (I’ve read it also).

Hackman also took a rather large pay cut at the time, and it was essentially the end of his career so I also get the sense he just wanted to get everything done as…

Exactly.

I got to university in 2009, and even then filling out a FAFSA was relatively easy (and, more importantly, cost absolutely nothing). So, my question would be: how does this company make money? The FAFSA is free. The only costs to college applications are paid to the universities themselves, so where’s the…

She was nominated last year for the 1st half of Season 6, but not for the 2nd half.

And, when looking at both the Golden Globes and the Emmy’s, over the entire show’s run, Better Call Saul NEVER won a single Primetime Emmy or Golden Globe, out of 29 nominations for both. I honestly can’t think of a better and more…

Pain & Gain was absolutely great and I’m surprised it didn’t get more good press.

Also, I think that for The Rock, movie-making is simply a means to an end. His goal isn’t to be “Dwayne Johnson, the actor” but instead “Dwayne Johnson, the global superstar and entertainment impresario”. He reached the limit to how far…

That’s why I thought, although a good movie, Glass Onion was less a murder mystery and more a social commentary (and why I preferred the 1st).

The narrative decision to make all of the participants, save for Blanc, old friends really hurt the mystery aspect, because not only was it not believable that these particular…

I’m a bit surprised at how gushing the reviews for the movie have been. It was generally entertaining, but the first one just seemed much better in pretty much every way. I would have expected the reviewers to be unkind to this one in comparison (“Knives Out 2: bigger, longer, duller”).

But yes, advertising tequila at the premiere of what is essentially a children’s movie is pretty gross.

Exactly.

I think people have developed a weird understanding of what “movie star” and “box office draw” are because the largest movies of the last 15-20 years have either been massive franchises where people aren’t really going to see an individual star (Harry Potter, the MCU, Jurassic World-series, some DCEU films) or…

Why essentially prohibit all adults from drinking because some might be bringing their children?

I live within 5 minutes of two major theme parks. Both of them serve alcohol even though the major consumer base are people under-21. So while I certainly agree that no one should be drinking and driving, let alone someone…

The issue is how you would prosecute this in cases where the pictures/videos weren’t released maliciously, or we’re disseminated by someone other than the original recipient?

If you have a picture of an ex and you send it to a friend with no ill intent, then the friend release the picture, who gets prosecuted? If you…

WB decides Cavill is out as Supes.

After Black Adam and the cuts they’ve been doing since the big merger with Discovery, I honestly can’t see them having much faith in Flashpoint, and that’s leaving out the radioactive nature of Ezra Miller. At this point, they should (and I wouldn’t be surprised if they do) just take a big writedown and scrap the…

It wouldn’t surprise me if he’s contracturally obligated to Warner Brothers for either a set period of time, or a set number of movies, but the contract doesn’t stipulate that he has to be playing Superman.

Given the nature of Superhero movies nowadays, it’s easy for some of the “stain” to be removed by simply having…

A 120 page script is like 30 pages of prose.

If she isn’t getting paid then her entire “career” inside of the music industry is done. She’s already pissed off Megan, so that door is closed, and if she didn’t get paid by Tory, he’s already thrown her under the bus by saying she was the shooter. With this conflicting testimony, nobody else in the industry will…

You’re absolutely right on this account.

However, it’s a historical fact that there was a concerted effort by automakers and tire companies in the early 20th century to make public transit as difficult as possible to implement outside of cities that already had it. This is why in pos-1950 urban areas, so many cities…

You brought up a point I made in another story concerning this potential acquisition that I think gets forgotten or overlooked, and it’s the entire 1st-party studio model.

Legally, if the FTC and/or DoJ strike this deal down, then it should call into question the entire paradigm of console makers owning publishers,…

Rhea Seehorn must’ve pissed in someone’s Corn Flakes because the fact she hasn’t won a Golden Globe or Emmy (hell, she only has 1 Emmy nom, and no Golden Globe nominations) is an absolute travesty.

I don’t really see console makers switching to Intel/Nvidia. They go with AMD because AMD is a lot cheaper. Intel/Nvidia hardware is only getting more expensive over time (lulz at the 4000 series pricing).

Whilst I agree with a lot of what you’re saying, throwing billions at a problem is not the recipe for success you seem to think it is. Facebook/Meta have thrown 10s of billions at the problem of the metaverse, and got absolutely nowhere with it, for example.