“The way MoviePass works is that the company pays theaters full price for tickets, and then it charges the consumers a flat subscription fee that doesn’t come close to covering the amount of movies that one is permitted to see with a MoviePass.”

Yep. Here’s the interview where Sink clarifies that she didn’t object to the kiss and didn’t feel any pressure to do the scene:

Spoiler (I suppose) about the “bit of blackmail that Jacobson thought could exonerate him should everything fall apart”: Whenever the computer program used to randomly determine where to send winning game pieces for big ticket items (large sums of cash, cars, etc.) selected a McDonald’s location in Canada, the…

I’m convinced that Bill Murray’s chance at a Best Actor win at the 2004 Oscars was largely topedoed by the trailer that tried to sell Lost in Translation as a typical Murray comedy. If it played up how he was playing largely against type, it might have been enough to upend Sean Penn's paint-by-Oscar-bait-numbers…

Drugs.

I’d actually like to see that. They’d have the money to restore the AVC to its halcyon days. We could get Disqus back. All of the beloved OG commentariate could return. Tributaries of “Of cock” and “Dawes” jokes would flow into a mighty river of Simpsons quotes. They could rehire O’Neal and he could ironically wear…

Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman, and Dan Mintz as Louise, Gene, and Tina Belcher, respectively.

I was thinking about that scene in Saving Private Ryan just the other day, apropos of nothing; it just popped in my head. The way the girl starts hitting her father while simultaneously berating him and sobbing after he takes her back from the soldiers was utterly convincing and absolutely heartbreaking. It’s…

I’m familiar enough with recognitions’s body of work, such that it is, that I feel fairly confident in my assessment of his/her impact on this little community. Different strokes for different folks, though, Joey.

I’d say that I’m looking forward to the moment when you have that grand epiphany—that you’re part of the problem--but I doubt that you possess anything close to that level of self-awareness. 

Yeah, I understand that the reduced number of episodes was probably due in part because of how a few episodes were longer—and more expensive, overall—but they could have actually used the normal ten to round out several plot points, give time for travel between locales, etc. Lots of it felt rushed.

Yes! I was really hoping that the series would do more with the glass candles, Quaithe, Asshai, etc., than what they ended up doing. I doubt we’ll see any of that in the final season.

I’ve always held out hope that they’ve been filming additional scenes depicting various fan theories—just for fun—for an omnibus edition of the series down the road. Seeing a scene or two each nodding to Jaqen = Syrio, Bolt-On, HS=HR, Varys-is-a-merman, etc., would be cool. (And I’m still holding out hope for Clegane…

Conspiracy theory (batshit-crazy-but-hope-springs-eternal edition): GRRM has been done with Winds of Winter for awhile and he has actually been working on A Dream of Spring so that he can release both next year (in the spring!) to coincide with the final season of the show. After falling behind the show before, he…

Maybe the Shape of Water dude is Abe's backwoods cousin.

It means that the case cannot be refiled in the future. A civil case dismissed without prejuduce allows for a future refiling.

Tangentially related: Below is what E.T.’s alien race originally looked like back when Spielberg envisioned the story as being about aliens terrorizing a family living in a farmhouse. Spielberg was about to scrap the idea altogether when Melissa Mathison convinced him to keep the part about one of the aliens…

Honestly from the trailer I thought that The Shape of Water was a love story about Abe Sapien from del Toro’s adaptation of Hellboy.

Yes, that’s the real tragedy here, not—you know—kids being put in fucking cages.