Marcus just disappeared this season, and it drove me nuts. Computer wants to cut him loose mid-season, and it’s made clear to him in no uncertain terms that Marcus isn’t going anywhere... great! And then we basically don’t see or hear from Marcus for the rest of the season.

It just... Takes... Forever... To... Get... Anything. And repetitive in a way that begs for fast forwarding.

I lost interest after the second season and dipped out. I still check in on the reviews from time to time, but I never get the motivation to dive back in when I keep seeing complaints of subtlety hammer writing and the show never being able to move past rolling around in its own gratuitous excesses.

Between the “Here I go wearing a cowboy hat again. Remember those other times I wore cowboy hats?” shrug of plot and the outright baffling trailers where Kevin Costner sits in a room and unenthusiastically rambles about wagon trains, I get the impression Costner saw Tom Cruise make those “Come on out and see this…

The producer/star of Waterworld and the director/producer/star of The Postman!

I’ve kind of done a doubletake at a lot of the praise for the season three premiere. I thought it was like watching a stylish reinterpretation of an old-fashioned clip show. Events we’ve already seen (or at least already aware of, if they occurred offscreen) are meticulously reconstructed just to show them with a…

Brooks has said in the past that he’d do Spaceballs 2 if Moranis came back for it, and Moranis was signed on for a return in the Honey I Shrunk the Kids reboot (which also involved Gad) that got shelved during the pandemic, so maybe there’s a chance of Somehow Dark Helmet Has Returned.

It was strange how everyone collectively threw in the towel on the entire theater industry based on the poor performance of Furiosa (a fine, but unnecessary prequel to a movie that wasn’t exactly a hit) and Garfield (a bland kids movie for kids too young to know what a Garfield is). The box offices aren’t doing great…

I’ve longed for some sort of colonial marines movie since seeing Aliens (and even more since seeing the screenshots for that Alien vs. Predator game in magazines during the 90's). Would love to see a crew of meatheads in their element and taking on the unknown, but with better leadership than Gorman.

It’s not just Disney, the “Jedi bad, actually” concept has pretty much been the defining viewpoint on the Jedi Order for most of the franchise’s lifespan at this point. A little introspection is welcome in any long-running series, but this has been like the one idea for what to do with the Jedi since it was first…

My problem isn’t so much overexposure to the Jedi, but overexposure to this specific vision of the Jedi.

Hemsworth feeling like he belonged in a different movie is right on.

There were only four other people in the theater with me when I caught it early Thursday evening. Garfield seemed to have a bigger turnout that day from what I could tell in the Fandango app, but neither were doing particularly well.

I’ll gladly go to bat for Garfield and Friends. Funny, clever and lightyears ahead of the “barely disguised toy commercial” and “All your parents’ favorites from the 60's, but now they’re kids!” field that dominated the TV cartoon landscape when it originally premiered.

Absolutely. As well-written as Dale is, it was Hardwick’s delivery that pushes the character over the top. There’s just something about his cadence that adds that extra little bit of setup to every joke, especially in the early seasons.

“Oh, something must’ve happened when I tried to mute the conversation because I was driving,” is my consistently successful go-to for leaving text chains.

The only thing I really get out of this is how the #FilmTwitter early review hype crew have perfected the art of sounding so amazingly insincere and manufactured in everything they say.

I’m starting to get annoyed that I’m still in wait-and-see mode, which is where I’ve been for every ATLA first look/preview that’s dropped so far. Just give me a whole scene to give me a feel for the actual performances and writing.

The hubris iin leaning so heavily on the CGI was kind of staggering and pretty representative of that “free money for everything (except writers)” era of Disney+ productions.

Lorraine systematically devouring Roy throughout that entire scene should earn the episode a bonus half-letter grade, at least. Jennifer Jason Leigh has been superb every second she’s been on screen this season.