I grew up in the same town as Anne Hathaway (a few years younger), and I remember an interview with her in the school paper when she got her first acting job. It was all about how she was excited about her new show “Get Real.” The last paragraph mentioned, as an aside, that she’d been cast alongside Julie Andrews in…

I can’t decide whether I want it to fail or not. I like to root for the underdog, but it’s a little hard to feel like the underdog is the massive tentpole movie that’s a sequel to the highest-grossing movie of all time, directed by a guy who has churned out several truly massive hits, just because everyone seems to be…

“who has autism”

Minhaj is probably my first choice to take over, though I suspect they’ll go in a far stupider direction.

That was my read as well, more or less.

I will forever mourn the fact that that classic routine didn’t come from a better source.

...speaking as both a person of Jewish descent and a Jew, this is a can of worms you don’t want to open. Opinions (and their justifications) of whether being Jewish is a religious identity, an ethnic identity, a combination, etc. vary wildly and are frequently contradictory. However Baron Cohen wants to identify is…

Better than his recent track: “No one man should have all that power/except hitler”

My weird, esoteric concern: the original films were, at least in part, homages to the b-movies and serials of the 30s, which often included things like Professor Challenger going on adventures. (That’s why they’re set in the 30s and have hokey titles and red lines moving across maps and such.) Crystal Skull, for…

My instinct is to say yes, but then I remember how silly titles like “Temple of Doom” and “The Empire Strikes Back” must have sounded initially and I hesitate. (I was born in ‘87, so I just take those for granted, but they’re also pretty silly titles out of context.) Heck, even “Attack of the Clones” was pilloried as…

Wait, they have an Optimus Prime that actually looks like Optimus Prime and not a random incoherent mess of mechanical parts? I might have to start paying attention again.

Not happy that Mawle is leaving; he did a solid job, and it’s always good seeing a disabled actor get work.

Putting aside the good reasons others have given in other comments, defendants can also request the judge reach a verdict without a jury. There is a right to a jury, but if the defendant doesn’t want to deal with one, then they don’t have to. So even if it weren’t a good idea to have one, it’s not like there isn’t a…

Technically not. Civil juries do not find that something did or did not happen; they find someone liable or not. The distinction is subtle, but not irrelevant. They found that spacey was not liable for molesting Rapp in 1986 - but that does not mean they found that he actively did not molest him; It just means they…

I’d say “Celebrity Deathmatch” is due for a modern, live-action revival, at least in a one-off special for those two. I’d watch.

I gather the contest is on to see whether Zazlav or Musk can destroy their companies faster. Very different strategies, but you have to admire their competitive spirit.

It’s not a typo. That’s in the book. I always assumed it was intended be a commentary, but on what (and to what end), I’ve never been able to discern.

The big difference to me was that in Love and Thunder Thor just felt too dumb. In Ragnarok, he was obviously somewhat silly, but the character felt more grounding for the film; it seemed like he was reacting to ridiculous events and emotions as a more reasonable person, even though he was also a bit silly as a defense…

Having lost my father to COVID in the early days of the pandemic, I’m not sure words exist to convey just how little sympathy I have for this selfish, abhorrent nonsense. I get that people have medical freedom, but if someone won’t get vaccinated (without a legitimate medical exemption), then for the love of god, shut…

In some ways that’s the sign of a good mystery though. As much as we love detectives like Holmes or Monk or Columbo, those work best in short stories or episodic TV, where there’s little point in caring about the other characters and the mysteries are resolved mostly procedurally. A good mystery novel - or movie -…