Javier Bardem is from Spain, which is absolutely a European country, and I mean… look at him. He’s white; he just has a Spanish accent.

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Bit of a chicken and egg situation though, innit? Hardware manufacturers were surely watching physical media sales when deciding whether to pass on the cost of including a disc drive. They could compare the sales of units equipped with a disc drive vs without. So there are absolutely fewer options for playing physical…

it doesn’t make sense for Amazon to own two streamers

Yeesh. I know that SNL has always had a reputation for not knowing how to end sketches, but that narc sketch went absolutely nowhere.

There *sort of* is a service like that, but not at the same scale or convenience as Tidal. Check out Kaleidescape. It requires proprietary hardware which is the point where I stopped looking into it.

I’m sure Disney still gets a percentage of every copy sold or some other kind of licensing fee. They’re probably just giving Sony favorable terms since they’ll be the ones who will be taking on the expense of production and marketing. Sony also has a hardware business, so they benefit from keeping discs on the market,…

In reality the divide is between urban and rural and most states are “purple”.

I feel like there are so many stories you could tell about how important journalists are and how journalism is under attack, including telling the real life stories about actual journalists, without resorting to an alt-uni version of the U.S. But I know A24 wants to make this big push into blockbusters, so maybe…

What throws me off is that - at least for the other G/O sites (now I’m questioning whether Kotaku does it) - their style guide apparently dictates that they write in the plural first-person (we, us). So their articles and hence their opinions at least suggest to casual readers that Kotaku should be treated like a hive…

Excuse me, I need to go throw up.

You’ve reminded me of how much I hated that Solo (which I overall enjoyed) brought up the idea of droid rights in the Star Wars galaxy. I always loved how the droids in the movies were presented as very utilitarian. 3PO was built for protocol and etiquette (uh… by Anakin, but ignore that for now), so he seemed the…

Yes, I did. And I agree, Connery was very intelligible, along with Desmond Lewelyn. I would have a little trouble understanding Roger Moore, Bernard Lee, the guy that played the Defense Minister, and a handful of others. I sometimes have trouble understanding dialogue anyway, but in the Bond films’ case it was a…

IMO, it’s not so much that the rules aren’t explained; it’s that the plot is a little difficult to follow the first time you watch it (like everyone else, I was kinda lost the first time I saw it). But the second time around, most of those things are obvious, because you know where everything is heading. You know what…

Thats a valid point in general; it’s just not in line with Larry’s other work, which is generally pretty consistent - to a fault (the last few seasons of Curb, including the current season, have reused story beats and jokes from Seinfeld and earlier episodes of Curb). And if Larry is trying to make a point about…

I thought the pacing dragged. I knew it was a part 1, so I was expecting a cliffhanger, but I expected it to happen 20-30 minutes sooner. I haven’t seen it since its release last year, so any other criticisms I haven’t just aren’t fresh (I vaguely remember disliking the rules for the multiverse), but I remember…

The image of Branagh hitting a lower deck on his way down after his wife slides him off the yacht lives rent-free in my head, as does him yelling, “ENOOOUGH!” at his wife earlier in the movie. His hammy performance was one of the things that really had to grow on me over repeat viewings. Compared to a typical Bond…

One studio - specifically one person that we’re aware of, who happened to run the company that owned that studio - said it wasn’t worthy of a theatrical release. That has zero bearing on what people at other studios do.

I haven’t seen her line delivery, so maybe I’m missing something, but I’ve absolutely asked my chatty cat things it couldn’t know the answer to because sometimes it’s fun to pretend they’re people.

I’m sure it wouldn’t be very difficult to find a few female critics and see what they thought. For that matter, it wouldn’t be hard to find male critics who reviewed films like Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey, and Captain Marvel well and see what they thought of Madame Web.