Jimmy Fallon would have been completely insufferable as Fletch.I don’t even want to think about the Ellen Degeneres version.

Having served on a jury, I can confirm this. Real legal proceedings are generally dull as dirt. (Especially the deliberations. Twelve Angry Men was a fairytale.) I’d guess the more entertaining a trial, the more likely the verdict is to be reversed on appeal.

“He directed the third Blade movie” is the sort of IMDB credit that convinces me to put this right at the top of my “Don’t Watch” list.

Yeah, there were elements I appreciated but the Ohmygod this is the best Batman ever! reception was a little mystifying. With Reeves at the helm, I have to assume that The Penguin will consist of long, ponderous, slow-moving episodes that look great but feature far too many side-plots and dozens of secondary…

A podcast I was listening to a couple weeks back made a very good point that the ripples from this event could spread much more widely than WB is/was hoping. Both of the directors and the actors starring in this movie are all represented by the same creative agency. Pulling the film wasn’t just a blow to those…

I improve on your plan by drinking straight from the bottle.

By “only a matter of time,” you’re suggesting that Busey has been accidentally grazing women’s nipples with his teeth so frequently that it was inevitable he would eventually do it to a woman who would press charges? (Or “take advantage,” as you so refreshingly put it - because there’s nothing a woman loves more than…

At this point it’s hard to imagine anyone wanting to be in the Joss Whedon business. His last unqualified success was what, the first Avengers movie? And then he squandered a lot of that good will with Age of Ultron, followed by years and years of circling the drain like a carton of spoiled milk with failed projects,…

Ferris shows up at Cameron’s front door one day, pleading with him to recreate their famous “day off” because it was the last really good day Ferris can remember having. He even has delusions of using this scheme to get back with his girlfriend, who broke up with him after she got into Harvard and moved out of state,…

There was an actual Sausage King of Chicago who murdered his wife and turned her body into sausage; he might have gotten away with it, but he fell asleep while rendering her down and one of the pots boiled over, depositing a human finger bone on the floor (where the police later discovered it). That’s solid inspiration…

Ferris Bueller has always bugged me as a movie about the adventures of a popular rich kid with a hot girlfriend who has no real problems and gets everything that he wants. Are we seriously supposed to relate to this guy? I, for one, would appreciate a little subversion of that cinematic universe.

I’m curious why Zaslav would think the “blockbuster or bust” strategy would beat the MCU when the MCU itself is investing in a whole bunch of small-screen adventures for its wider cast of heroes to expand the universe and prime the pump for big-screen spectacle. You could argue that the DCEU on the small and big…

Personally I would enjoy it if season five went down like The Evil Dead, i.e. characters die one by one until there’s just a single hero left standing, but my confident expectation is that Vecna will be all malevolent and threatening - evil incarnate - until the gang discovers that his greatest weakness is the power…

There was something about the trailer for Bullet Train that got me to a place where I was already sick of the movie before it had even premiered, which is unusual because I’m usually down for that sort of movie. I still on the fence about watching it on streaming, but I’m definitely not buying a ticket to see it in a…

She looks beautiful. He looks like someone put a pair of glasses on a frog. Of course the latter cheated on the former, because nothing ever make a damned bit of sense.

They got to put on their performance of a rewritten “Hamilton,” and now they get to bask in the glow of an adoring conservative media as they’re being victimized by liberal eastern (non-white) elites. It’s a win-win for that Texas church. 

I doubt anyone at WB seriously wants Ezra Miller to do the press tour in support of this film. As erratic as he is in his day-to-day life, can anyone expect him to a) show up and b) not do or say something so bizarre that it would completely derail the process and take over the headlines running up to the release of…

The series is penned by Oliver Lyttelton, who previously wrote the comedy Cheaters

I heard the The Bear was a comedy, and I went in expecting a comedy, but that experience was not comedic at all. I actually found the disconnect offputting - I was watching a “comedy” because I wanted that experience, and when I got something completely different (the premiere actually filled me with a feeling of…

I’d argue that the MCU plan was: