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Shopping was the reason he got hired for Mortal Kombat. I watched a behind the scenes when it came out and Joel Silver said when they started production they wanted to hire a director who was new and young, but could handle action choreo and he got a bunch of screeners to screen candidates, saw Shopping, and went,…

It’s a slightly vapid but very attention-grabbing directorial debut. The ending shot, set to an instrumental track by James (the band), is particularly memorable and haunting. No surprise he moved up the ranks so quickly.

I enjoyed it, but, the plot was meh. The action sequences made up for most of it’s downfalls.

Yeah, I think she’s 21 and he’s 16 when the book starts.  Stu is IIRC in his 30s at least.

And if you find her rummaging around in your trash outside, don’t approach her. She’s just looking to feed her cubs. 

Warrior is so underrated, I think because it was released too soon after The Fighter, and it didn’t get the audience it deserved. What a great movie.

This movie might actually be interesting. That would be a key difference.

“Bureaucratic look at the world” is a great way to paraphrase what really niggled at me about Coco. That's a charmin movie in a lot of ways, but the afterlife was so driven by arbitrary rules, it felt kind of "off" to me.

Sounds like someone's got a case of the Christmases.

I have also literally never heard of Riviera. It’s weird to me that a show like Riviera can have a third season and apparently be going strong, while a show like Teenage Bounty Hunters can’t get a second.

I’m kind of surprised that Dakota Johnson didn’t use her famous parents to lean on the actors guild to stop Mackenzie Davis from dyeing her hair dark. 

As someone who works in film and has had to come up with band names before, believe me, it is VERY hard. First of all, you have to come up with a large list of potential names and avoiding your subconscious intake of actual band names, then that list has to be submitted to Clearances to make sure they’re legally clear…

Thank you for bringing up Rubáiyát, which I still hold as one of the coolest projects a major label ever saw fit to assemble. Hell, even the Faster Pussycat version of “You’re So Vain” is kind of amazing.

Well we in Ireland get muck like Wild Mountain Thyme foisted on the world in our name with Brits and Yanks (and also funnily enough, Paddies) bludgeoning our accents to death. At least this looks interesting enough. You don’t know you’re born.

There’s a certain type of acting that the Brits (and Brit-adjacent) do that’s very good for seriousness. Most great American actors have a smirk on their face even when they’re doing a serious scene. If you want that kitchen sink realness, you’re better off going with a Brit. The inherent silliness of superheroes gets…

Nationalities aside, I’m glad that they cast leads that really look the part of people who have been beaten down by their hardscrabble lives.

I hear even Superman is played by a limey these days

Well not that region. Now if you’ll excuse me I’ve got to get to the Northern Lights in my kitchen.

It’s making me think of that, but also “Twilight Princess”.