I laughed out loud at that. And I am a fan of the old Lionsgate logo! Cheesily busy, it really sets the tone for the movies to come.

Yuuuup. I wasn’t a huge fan of the beginning but it had style and action, and the movie just fucking stops for a bunch of mopey crap, I fell asleep 10 minutes later.

They’re so flat and washed! Garbage! Surely Netflix is doing better in the live-action department *looks at still for The Harder They Fall directly above this* ugh, never mind.

For some reason I was thinking of Cheers while reading this review, and of course that’s the ur-”couple falling in love” show, but it’s also a damn workplace comedy about adults doing work (and getting into shenanigans). Parents are guest stars for an episode, if that, because there’s plenty of other things going on.…

“But I knew vocally it sounded too much like Batgirl for all the same people. I left the studio and then I had this idea. As I was passing the sound studio part where the director, the writer, the engineer sit, I said to Andrea Romano, “Can I try one more thing?” This idea just came to me to have this weird little…

Funny supporting Affleck (Good Will Hunting, Extract) is by far the best Affleck, so this has me excited. I’m hoping this dude is essentially the 14th Century version of his character in Mallrats.

Look, I own literally 500 VHS tapes, it’s a medium I have a lot of affection for and think is actually good for a certain janky 80s/90s vibe, but being pandered to like this in 2021 is just embarrassing. No way I’m going to some nostalgic bullshit like thi-

Upgrade rules. I don’t think the camerawork Whannell used for the action scenes here worked as well in Invisible Man but it’s a perfect match for the precise but uncontrolled action here. And Simon Maiden’s voicework as STEM is top-notch. Great little B movie.

Witch Week is fantastic and has a really intriguing ending. Jones is the best.

Eagles is the most recent one I’ve read and I liked it a lot -- very good stuff on the aftermath of the “betrayal.” And the ending is boss, I think Novik’s best writing is in her battles and that one is great (and finds an interesting solution to what to do with a certain famous character). Good to hear she’s only…

“Cold and brutal is what makes that character work, even if he’s not very human at times.”

Hee hee, enjoying China as the literal Fireworks Factory. But yeah, that’s the biggest slog -- for a story that is a tribute/rejoinder to the Aubrey/Maturin books, it’s weakest on boats for extended periods of time. I think what really kicks things into gear is when a certain co-lead actually gets narrative chapters,…

“which sees her slowly come to realize that the system itself is the actual existential threat. That Novik can build this thesis organically...”

“GBBO has a bad habit of putting through consistent but dull bakers through over ones with promise but just REALLY fucked up one week when they need to flip a coin and choose someone to go off.”

Whenever the show starts to get less interesting they should just get Prue drunk again! I dunno, I think we might be watching for different reasons — I generally dislike “personalities” and think they’re trying too hard to stay on the show via that aspect rather than being able to do the dang job, like that dapper old…

On the one hand, Dante absolutely has the cartoony style and willingness to be goofy. But he also seems more reliant on pop culture, and while The Far Side definitely riffed on cliches the way Dante does (most of the cowboy stuff), it also has a singular weirdness that’s tied to the naturalism and I don’t know if…

Great write-up and I really like the point about how this rewards rewatching — I’ve only seen it once myself and liked it a lot but I can see it being even better with more familiarity with the complex family dynamics. And man, Naseeruddin Shah is an all-time Movie Dad here, hitting that frustrated-but-still-warm vibe…

So how is the show itself, the production and hosting etc.? We really did not like the most recent season (Mrs. Miller witheringly and accurately described the contestants as “a bunch of duffers”) and rewatched the first season available on Netflix for a reminder of something better, and it was shocking how much more…

The filmmakers landed Stevens as the lead and apparently still felt the need to hedge his handsomeness by offsetting it with that utter doof in the back right of the lead photo.

The Invisible Man was the last movie I saw in theaters and it was a lot of fun, Whannell uses the whole screen well so seeing that big made it creepier. And my audience wasn’t big but it still enhanced things, particularly at the restaurant scene. The fighting sequences toward the end worked better in Upgrade, though.