Since I don’t watch broadcast TV anymore, the Winter Olympics broadcast reminded me that NBC’s Promo Department are still as shitty as they were in the ‘90's during peak Must See TV. Unrelentingly bad and lazy, where they pummel the viewer with quick cuts of NBC-looking crime/drama/comedy coupled with cliched…

I have a friend who is an music guy. College job in late-80s was Tower Records downtown DC, then moved to Olympia WA to finish school. College DJ there and knee deep in Oly/Portland end of the Pacific NW music scene during the 90's. Did a community radio show into the late-00's. He knows his stuff, from Swing to Freakb…

The runtime is 2hr 55min. I’d hate to think that was after a butchering.

He mentioned the R-rated Joker in the previous sentence’s parenthetical.

One thing that differentiates Wright’s Pride & Prejudice is it’s cinematography. The vast majority of modern Romantic films tend to be shot simply and predictably, with master shots and angle/reverse angles. They are lit flat and framed unimaginatively. Roman Osin’s photography, along with filming almost entirely on…

Yes, but first you have to scratch out Iron Fist and write in After M*A*S*H.

Trust me, this is the only review we need.

Um, how do you not know about Hulu?
Where do you think Disney parks all the dirty, foul-mouthed Fox stuff?

One of my brothers had the “Making of 2001" paperback. As a little kid I thumbed through that a million times.
I was in grade school in the 70's and saw Silent Running on TV. It was one of the films I saw as a youngster that taught me that not all films have happy endings. That sometimes the absolute shittiest outcome…

Kevin Feige in January 2021:

“It will be rated R and we are working on a script right now, and Ryan’s overseeing a script right now… It will not be [filming] this year [2021]. Ryan is a very busy, very successful actor. We’ve got a number of things we’ve already announced that we now have to make, but it’s exciting…

I was going off Disney+ which says it’s 109 minutes. So if the opening got tightened up by 8 to 9 minutes that would have helped.
Of course, the probability of me seeing it again is fairly low so all this is pretty much moot!

Don’t forget that last July ILM hired the YouTuber know as Shamook whose deepfake channel is noted for “fixing” Luke’s appearance in The Mandalorian. Luke in TBoBF is probably the proper beginning of D+/ILM running the table with characters played by actors that are either old or dead.

I concur. My wife and I watched it this weekend. Good story but the songs have a sameness. Moana was stronger in the song department. Also, some songs were too fast to comprehend.

My boys, 8 and 12, bowed out after 20 minutes and went and did something else. They’re usually pretty game for a movie but the beginning…

So, we all know the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning elephant in the room is Larry Niven’s Ringworld, right?

Fun fact: Return of the Jedi is the laziest, cheapest, worst acted, and worst written filmed property in the entire Star Wars franchise. George could have wrapped up the OT a million good ways....but he made that.

The hint about Dafoe’s comedy style is Bobby Peru. Case closed.

All the Dr. Strange ITMOM re-shoots/pick-ups stuff is because Dr. Strange was supposed to open before Spider-Man NWH. So when they flipped the schedule they had to alter it drastically to reflect the events of NWH. Conversely, NWH had to change scenes to match up what’s known about the Multiverse at that point.

If you mean Noel tells expendable bandmembers “play this” and hands lyric sheets to his emotionally damaged brother, then sure, Oasis writes their own songs.
My favorite stories about Oasis are the ones where Liam has a tantrum and won’t go on stage so Noel sings the whole show. And no fans ever complain, because they…

“But fans won’t have to wait quite as long for season three; it is filming back-to-back with the second season, and is currently in production.”

Just spitballin’ here, but might this have to do with Patrick Stewart being 81 years old? And in ST:Picard he didn’t seem particularly spry.

This was the MO for Batman: Brave and the Bold. C-List Silver Age villians. Clock-King, Kiteman, Crazy Quilt, Mirror Man, Gentleman Ghost, etc. Batman isn’t angst-y either. He’s a smart, very patient, superhero detective surrounded by crazy people. Great show.