The first Avatar was basically ‘Dance with Wolves’ on another planet. You can’t help but compare Avatar 2 to ‘Water World’. Avatar 3 will probably be based on a another Kevin Costner film, I’m guessing ‘Bull Durham’.

My favorite dramas of the past 3-ish years have mostly been about people about this age, who were at about this socio-economic level, undergoing existential crises of about this sort.

Back in my college days, many years ago, I crossed paths with a self-proclaimed ‘futurist’. That’s a profession that gets paid for trying to convince people that the world of ‘The Jetsons’ is just around the corner. Part motivational speaker, part con artist. Musk reminds me of that guy.

A US producer is doing an American version of the hit Korean cable series ‘SKY Castle’ about rich parents cheating to get their kids into Ivy League schools. There’s a problem, though. The Korean series has the parents going to extreme lengths to TEACH their kid so they’ll qualify. In America the premise would be…

At this point anyone who claims the be an ‘undecided voter’ ought to be given the same cognitive decline test that Trump struggled to get through.

There’s a new K-drama out just this week. ‘Zombie Detective’. Starts with a dead body in a garbage dump who wakes up, realizes his plight as on of the undead, then shuffles off into the woods to spend a year training himself up to pass a living person.

Mr. Jackson is 71 years old. Are they pulling a ‘Picard’ on us again? Sign him up to play a retired sage while the younger generation does all the stunt work?

To be fair, being asked by HHS to do a pandemic PSA is a little bit more palatable than being asked by a vulgarian traitor rapist to run interference for him before the election.

SNL, a ‘hip’ skit comedy show run by a 75 year old.

I concluded back when I first watched Jackson’s King Kong that he’s just too in love with his source material. Every scene that could have taken forty seconds he stretched into 10 minutes. You could imagine him hunched over the screen in the editing room mumbling to himself ‘This is marvelous, this is marvelous’. No,…

‘Sitting still for an actual story’ implies there was an actual story worth sitting through. CGI backdrops, stilted exposition and extended fight scenes does not a story make.

They watched everything in order of release. By the time you slogged your way to the end of Rise of Skywalker you’ve forgotten all about the first ‘Star Wars’ film (the original title).

I had to look up the meaning of the slang word ‘stan’. Its supposed to be a combination of ‘stalker’ and ‘fan’. I’m not entirely sure the author of this piece knew what it meant, either.

In an odd way this review makes me like the (admittedly bad) film more, not less. We can now compare ‘My Super Ex Girlfriend’ to ‘Mulan’, another female superhero story where the writers thought they were hitting all the right ‘feminist virtue signalling’ buttons, which unfortunately resulted in a humorless slog of a…

What’s with the mockery? It makes you sound like a middle-brow ‘snob’ whose offended that anyone would dare reference something more ‘high-brow’ than your own pedestrian tastes. They dare to reference ‘Rashomon’? I’ll put them in their place by instead referencing ‘Hanna Montana’. This is why we can have nice things…

History has not been kind to Glenn Gould’s interpretation. Nowadays his recordings are considered dry and pedantic, performed by someone who publicly said he didn’t much like the sound of a piano.

I suspect Ms. Wang is misinterpeting the intent of the film, namely that its supposed to be a rich white guy propaganda piece that distorts the image of China. Ron Howard’s ‘Apollo 13' wasn’t made to highlight the pointlessness of those expensive, dangerous publicity stunts in space, it was flag-waving rah-rah can-do j…

SNL may be doing God’s work mocking Trump but it’s like a stopped clock that happens to be right twice a day. Apply the same brand of humor to any other subject and it comes across as moronic. What did Chevy Chase say about SNL humor? That its the worst (expletive) humor in the world. When you think legendary sketch…

I have the sneaking suspicion that Snyder put together his ‘Snyder Cut’, showed it to a couple focus groups and... Yeh, maybe we ought to shoot a few extra scenes with exposition explaining what the hell is going on.

Normally I’d be against this kind of ‘virtue signalling’ (a new term I learned just yesterday and am probably misusing), but considering what a dumpster fire Mulan was in the hands of rich white guys, maybe she has a point?