1) Aside from 1941, the worst snub in history has to be Rocky winning over All The President’s Men, Network, and Taxi Driver. Rocky is a perfectly good film; it’s iconic, ends happily, and basically created a whole genre. But it does not hold a candle to any of those other three, which are all stone-cold classics and…

“It marked a fitting end to the unlikely awards run the Academy Awards has gifted us, especially after the whiplash years of Green Book, Parasite, Nomadland, and CODA.”

General rule in Hollywood: if they usually play creeps, they’re probably extremely nice. (E.g., Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi, Willem Dafoe.) If they’re usually playing charming and nice (and they’re not Tom Hanks or Paul Rudd), there’s a good chance they’re creeps. Grant is a prime example of the latter. (See…

Reminder that Shatner has been a vocal proponent of anti-autistic hate group “autism speaks.” Not relevant to the substance of this article, but still important to remember.

Jack Lemmon also won for Mister Roberts, which... is fair. Great film, and he’s great in it (though personally I think William Powell was more deserving for the same movie).

Eh, give his Gladiator oscar to Tom Hanks, who deserved it that year for Castaway.

Don’t underestimate the late, great Theodore Bikel. I was lucky enough to see him in a late-career performance of Fiddler (he was right up there with Topol in playing the role countless times, in addition to originating the role of Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music’s initial Broadway run), and he was just as…

Based on our Smash Bros experience, I’m assuming it’ll be a male character with a sword, likely from a Fire Emblem game. (Or, if we’re lucky, a Xenoblade game.) This will serve exactly no purpose in the game, but hey, it’s an emo-looking sword dude, so that is its own merit, apparently.

This. A thousand times this.

Sounds like a classic case for promissory estoppel. My bet is she’s got a good chance, despite Disney having much too much legal power. (Seriously, the Disney legal department can go straight to hell, for both obvious reasons and anecdotal ones that aren’t mine to share.)

I’d also recommend Jessie Gender’s extremely long, but also extremely good and comprehensive Youtube video on the subject from a couple months ago.

If Deborah Ann Woll isn’t brought back, we riot. I’ll keep hoping that she is involved and it’s just a well-kept secret, but so far this news is just disappointing. She’s kind of great as a person and deserves more work, and she was great as Karen in the Netflix show. There are a million reasons to bring her back and…

I honestly have no idea what Disney’s plan for SW movies is at this point. The strategy so far, as least post-RoS, seems to have been “throw everything at the wall and hope some of it sticks,” but perhaps unsurprisingly that hasn’t panned out. Maybe they’re just letting SW happen on Disney+ for a while before coming…

Counterpoint: this does not apply to most Star Trek, which usually gets better after season 3 and hits its high points in seasons 5-7. Enterprise was just getting good when it got cancelled; TNG and Voyager had their best runs after their fourth season; even DS9, which probably had its overall best year in its fourth…

And much too low, in my opinion. (Though I fully understand that Rolling Stone isn’t exactly a devotee of folk music.)

For better and worse, one word: Shenmue.

Honestly the first good news I’ve heard about this revival/reboot/whatever. I still think it’s DOA without Niles, but Bebe Neuwirth makes everything she’s in much better, so at least it’ll be worth watching a bit for her.

Just bring it to PC and I’ll play it. I loved Zero Dawn - it was one of the best games I’ve played in years - but I’m not shelling out $500+ to track down a PS5 just so I can play it a bit sooner. As soon as they port it, I’ll be first in line, but until then, I’m avoiding spoilers and streams. And I can’t be the only…

In the absence of clear instructions, and speaking as an official, fully bar mitzvahed Jew, no.

Sure would be nice if they realized that a big part of what made the first two Hellboy films work was del Toro being his whimsical and weird self, rather than there being something about the character himself that makes a routinely-rebooted franchise necessary. I recognize the ship has probably sailed on Guillermo…