There were quite a few cable residuals for The Office (at one point it played nonstop on Comedy Central) but I’m not sure the Netflix juggernaut ratings have been as lucrative, even if the show itself has become immortal due to streaming. (I also don’t understand foreign broadcast rights; the US Office is really…

Musk is the easier one to hate on an interpersonal level, given his absolute lack of emotional intelligence or human compassion, but Zuckerberg is still arguably the one who’s done more material harm, at least looking at the ways in which FB was a haven for fake social protests from Russia (especially in 2016) and…

Kardashian literally condemned West’s comments in real time (see below). But it’s also not a woman’s job to apologize for the shithead she used to be with. And I don’t think, whatever misgivings you might have about the family, that anti-semitism was ever on the list of cons. Like, no one was wondering if Kim was a…

Donda Academy is like an Apple computer. No Windows.

A new old model is needed (with requisite updates to creatives’ agreements with studios to ensure fair compensation). This is maybe the right moment for:

That’s a great point. Controlling salaries (as in Tenet, which starred a group of pretty affordable actors) is one way to do wildly “big” films on a reasonable-ish budget. It also makes the bet a bit easier to make. 

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.