All other movies with Florence Pugh.  I’m pretty sure that her publicist writes for this site.

It needs the full HBO mult-year series treatment to do it correctly, now that special effects and budgets for television shows have caught up to the necessary levels. The novel Baron was morally reprehensible, devious, and entertaining as hell, and here he mostly just floats up out of black goo.

Now, now.  They also take time to make minor editorial changes to press releases written by publicists.

Duncan Idaho is specifically mentioned as having mixed genetic heritage in the novel.

They turn out to be terrible at being saviors, colonizing a world that they do not understand, which I do not think was accidental on Herbert’s part.

There was zero seat jumping, and Stilgar (one of the most all-round competent characters ever in a novel) was reduced to comic relief who had little to no skepticism about religion, is a more apt way of phrasing it.  Fans of the novel, you will hate the changes, and non-fans of the novel, I am not sure why you would…

Ireland and irony start with the same two letters.

Sarah Sherman sure is a sport.

With Harvard giving out 79% A grades, it is now.

Some credit to them: men tipping her tens of thousands of dollars made me smile/almost chortle, and her being a crossing guard and “thousands” died achieved chortle status.

I was also hoping that they would replace the real dog with a puppet one and have the two of them start making out, like Alec Baldwin did years ago in the Greenhilly sketch. Now THAT was writing.

Does he manage the pre-recorded bits less? Those seem consistently funnier and better written than the live portions.

For the Hooters sketch to function at a higher level, she should have been the waitress who no one wanted for some reason, with Bowen as the favorite.  I also wanted to see the Sydney Sweeney Todd sketch.

Only for the claustrophobic.  Otherwise, the failings shine through badly.

Good, but not amazing film. Such a light musical score still manages to be oppressive.  The overall production comes across as a well-made television movie on the Hallmark channel, except for the main players.  The acting of the secondary characters was amazingly poor in places, and some dialog and musical cues were…

The Anselmo Case was never solved.

How did everyone game out your final DVD to keep? (I do not think that I am getting any bonuses.) I chose Day for Night. I tried to get Children of Paradise, but it was on long wait, so if that was you, enjoy. I thought about Bergman, but his stuff is relatively easy to find; even Max has a reasonable selection, and…

You can visit the doorway in Vienna and bits of the other locations.  I hope that I did not bother the present owners that much.

More Carlin.

Your guy may be great, but I would not know it from this film.