No doubt Tenet was dinged by the pandemic, but I have serious reservations about whether it would have been a blockbuster. It was pretty badly reviewed, it was a little messy to follow (disorientation is not always bad; puzzlers can be pretty compelling), there wasn’t a clear hook and no A-list star. No one can say…

You’re right. Def cannot derive any conclusion about the author’s POV from this piece. Not at all. No snark here.

I love Tarantino but the Kill Bill films are so boring. Which is a bummer because his best film is female fronted (Jackie Brown is hands down the best showcase for his strengths and restraint). We really don’t need a third one. I just hope his “final” film steps away from the “alternate” history twist, which was…

Or he can make films under a pseudonym; that feels like something he would do. 

Man, that food court was something. Wouldn’t even know where to go first. 

B.J. may be the only one worthy of running the Gemstone empire, perhaps alongside Matthew. 

Mary, this is a ridiculous post. Unless you’re doing horror, and almost exclusively horror, no one is greenlighting non-IP movies of any notable scale (and most horror being made is on a very tight budget).

The annoying cousin of the one-and-done drop is the 2-episode weekly drop. Always Sunny is doing that and it drives me nuts. It’s not as serialized or complex as The Bear, but why burn off all the episodes so quickly when fans wait with baited breath in the increasingly long interims between seasons? It’s so odd to…

Viewers should do whatever they want (some are bingers — not me — some are savorers) but there is no ambiguity that this is just dumb business.

Nicholas Hoult was never going to be Superman. He has big Lex Luthor energy. Just too weird to be the hero (just watch him in The Great) but perfect as the antagonist. Gunn is great at casting, so I’m sure he won’t let Hoult go. 

LOL, there is a website that totaled how many times Willie screamed. (71, apparently)

Yeah, maybe “faithlessness” isn’t fully accurate. Maybe it’s just a lack of internalizing faith toward anything external to their own self involvement.

Pinkerton is a terrific album and an accurate record of the deeply troubled person who created it. It’s hard to ignore his creepy Asian fetish threaded throughout but I think his entire output has shown a genuine evolution as a person.

Matthew Lillard’s youthful creepiness has really gotten even better with age. Dude can make my skin CRAWL. 

That’s news to me. In my experience, Crystal Skull was the only thing that saved Crusade from being bottom of the barrel. Over the years I experienced many people holding Doom in much higher esteem — solidly at #2. This is mostly anecdotal, but I’ve had a lot of pushback in my love for Crusade.

I didn’t realize monster trucks have bottom access (there’s probably a better way to say that, but whatever). I guess I always assumed drivers climbed through the windows. Very educational!

Here’s my nuclear bomb. Last Crusade is the second-best of the films, preceded by Raiders and followed by Temple of Doom. River Phoenix shows just how a young version of Indy could be done well with a sense of humor, while Sean Connery is the perfect tone of sour to match Indy’s trademark humorlessness. The gross but…

It’s widely acknowledged as the “seal breaker” moment. That’s not my assessment. It’s literally every entertainment business reporter’s assessment. When streamers saw that a platform could just scrap a high-profile project (Batgirl) and survive without any major repercussions (masses of artists refusing to ever work…

“Netflix, for instance, just got all the buzz it needed from its own Tudum event last Saturday...” I literally had no idea this had occurred. So, maybe not? 

Tubi, FreeVee (owned by Amazon), Pluto, Roku (it’s been jailbroken from Roku devices) and even YouTube (not to be confused with YouTube TV, which is a cable replacement platform that does cost significant $ -- much more than any streamer). None of these requires a paid subscription and are all ad-supported, solely,…