The opening of the first film covers how Paddington got to England. A natural disaster kills his uncle and his Aunt sends him to England on a cargo ship, with info left by the British explorer who discovered them.

She has 4 movies that made 200-260m at the boxoffice, and then went on to become massive hits on TV/DVD/streaming/whatever. If this one has the shelf life of say The Holiday, they could probably make some money at that budget level.  

The issue isn’t tweaking lines. I actually usually love it when an actor asks to change a line, most of the time it’s an improvement. The problem is framing it as her saving a disastrous script which made no sense and had no character arcs. Even if that’s true, maybe don’t insult coworkers publicly. Especially not on…

“Everything that Wednesday does, everything I had to play, did not make sense for her character at all,”

You can say you tweaked lines or plused things a little... but publicly badmouthing your co-workers work, which is kinda a dick move.

Best moment of the night was the audience singing Happy Birthday to James Martin when An Irish Goodbye won Best Short.

Anything that’s smart enough to figure out a way to get here will be able to do whatever it wants, regardless of whether our guard is up or down.

That’s good but needs more fan service. Maybe a baby Yoda on a Babu Frick on a salacious crumb on a jawa on a Gonk bot.

Obviously Grogu is the “somehow” in “somehow Palatine returned”.

American Animals rules.  One of the most incentive, funny and original heist movies in years. Very overlooked.

It’s not as damaging to their careers as suing a major studio would be. It’d be expensive, drawn out and put other studios off working with them. And chances are their contracts didn’t give them many rights anyway.

I see every Marvel movie opening night and have been reading comics for decades, but The Boys is much more sophisticated than the Marvel movies. It’s not super deep but the Boys dabbles in critiques of corporate culture, American foreign policy, religion, toxic masculinity, gender politics etc etc.

They’ve been talking about Cobra Kai spinoffs, so I’m sure we’ll get some sort of Cobra Kai:TNG or Eagle Fang: A Cobra Kai Mystery show. 

He’s a hard character to write, but its not like they don’t have thousands of stories to draw inspiration from. There have been brilliant Superman stories in the comics by Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Kurt Busiek, Mark Waid, Jason Aaron, etc.

The difference King is ignoring is that the child murders are presented in a negative light. The child orgy is presented as a glorious and empowering thing.

Everyone should check out his movie ’71, about a British soldier lost in a hostile Belfast during the Troubles. Its a fantastically tense, one crazy night style thriller.

You’re quoting iPlayer figures, which are UK only and ignores that it also had millions of people watch it broadcast live in BBC. It was BBCs biggest streaming hit, doing almost twice the numbers of its second biggest hit. It’s the biggest streaming show ever in Ireland also been on Hulu, etc.

Sound tech in TV has in some ways gone backwards. The beefy if unsubtle speakers of big CRTs and hifi systems was much clearer than the tiny speakers they have to fit into flatscreen TVs. 

That light level wavering is usually a symptom of HDR not working properly. I had ithe issue on my TV. There are various standards of high dynamic range and if they don’t play well with your TV settings, you get the constantly brightening and darkening within a scene. If it's happening on all your channels, it's worth…

I love Sharon Horgan as a writer and a performer, but I felt the same way. Had JP been played by a charming Irish person (like a Chris O’Dowd) it’d have worked much better. I think reviewers liked it because it’s quite charming and well acted but it’s far too padded. The flashback structure robs it of a lot of tension…