I never watched Hustle, but I remember liking him in Hurt Locker. He’s good in Wind River as well.

I don’t know that there’s anywhere that strong documentaries regularily emerge except, I dunno, PBS? I kinda think docs are simultaneously really hard (to make and sell) and also what comes out is usually graded on a curve—if people like the subject or learn a little, a mediocre doc seems like it’s done the job.

I agree, actually! (though, duh, I guess, since it’s my definition.) I’m mostly reacting to the “Glen Powell is a movie star” line that multiple outlets are using now, just wondering if there’s something extra. The hey, he pals around with Tom Cruise and picks his roles is meant to suggest more than the next Chris…

Oh, I think he’s waning, but that’s just it, I think so much has changed in the business that basically no one has emerged a “movie star” in the way that Tom Cruise is for years and years. Even a lot of Cruise’s appeal is his franchise work.

Okay, what’s the first published article that posited Glen Powell as the “next movie star”, because like 4 different publications are pushing this line. I’m generally just curious—is it Tom Cruise’s people? Do they share marketers?

Huh--I’ve never heard of this belief/joke except in the context of the Incredible Hulk tv show, which changed the name Bruce Banner to David Banner because Bruce was a “gay” name...so it was a more widespread thing? Not just some random tv exec’s weird ideas?

The arc of the second season feels like it was all set up for this one—everything was generally a glidepath up other than the last episode (and in flashbacks).

I have! And Oliver’s been on my mind because of a Maintenance Phase episode...I have no idea if he’s done some recently to garner attention. But also I remember the American edition airing and the whole nugget scene and being put off. Judging food by visual aesthetics seemed so unrelated to health—like even if you…

It’s somewhat similar to Jamie Oliver crusade over school lunches—there’s a lot to say about it, but he (Oliver) has got so many class blinders that his critiques are more about hating a kind of person than an actual look at the issues. Maybe always an entertainer more than investigator, but the whole of Spurlock’s…

The review is claiming that movie is proselytizing AI uncritically in any shape and form.

Hmm...however he wants to construct his career is fine, though waiting for a job to be released during the pandemic is different than not knowing you’re wanted. Ke Huy Quan wasn’t saying no to franchises while waiting for a not sure thing like Everything Everywhere All At Once. Which is to say, good for him that he…

Whoa—I’ve watched Obayashi’s Hanatagami and with it have often thought about the trajectory ambitious directors outside of the US—how much of what is possible or ambitious or worth doing is all magically calculated by cultural norms or whatever else. What’s good looking cgi? What if you cast a 40-year-old as a…

I remember the show fondly and didn’t had much chance to see it over the years, so when I saw it streaming I got excited to dig in...and I couldn’t make it past the pilot. Its more a I changed than it changed sort of thing, but I did remember Jay being a sad sack and championing arts and lampooning capitalism and all…

Do you think it’ll be another robot?

I think it might not be an intelligent invasion, more like planet hopping bugs.

Lol--it might be the episode number? Season 3, episode 10.

They’re not a bakery, so not bread, but maybe starting stock or something?

It’ll peak as meme fodder for the Tuesday-Friday the week of it’s streaming release.

Amazon sacrifices more money on the nerd altar. Any nerd altar.

Right—I think I should specify that I mean is that when Disney/Iger talks about saturation of franchises, he should probably talk about both of them at the same time. I think their audiences overlap enough, and that talking about the groupings as being discrete issues is missing the big picture.