So we’re okay with Franco now or...?

I believe the Analyze This parallel is essentially coincidental, and I think that the therapy sequences certainly became what you describe, from a writing perspective. I’m just talking about the pilot specifically, and I think I’m talking how, structurally and formally at least, they’re basically Tony saying “let me…

The pilot does have a significantly wackier tone, and hews a lot more closely to that Scorcese vibe.  The therapy sequences appear to function largely as a means of offering some Ray Liotta style VO for instance 

I say this as someone whose favourite James Gunn works are Tromeo and Juliet and his novel The Toy Collector, and also as someone who has no real intention of diving into a DC Cinematic Universe but it just seems so profoundly, self-evidently, historically obvious that pandering to a fanboy sensibility is a dumb,…

Give it to Scott Adkins you absolute cowards.

The thing is, social media has made a whole bunch of fairly boring, fairly mundane industry machinations into news. If it wasn’t for the fact that things get amplified and distorted and misinterpreted at an exponential rate these days, all this stuff would be totally unremarkable behind-closed-doors development stuff.…

I found Dark Fate pleasantly surprising; to be honest my main objections are the ones that I have to all ‘legacy sequels’, namely that there aren’t that many plot structures that support the idea of old stars passing the baton onto new stars in an emotionally satisfying way. And also the fact that conceptually, that’s…

“someone is telling vetted industry publications like Variety and THR this stuff...”

I thought that the quality characterization was there, it would take a heck of a lot for Chase to fail on that score, but yeah: structurally, thematically, and dramatically... what on earth was the point?

It didn’t register as cinema at all, really. It felt like a TV show that just happened to only have one episode.

I mean, fair enough I suppose, but I think people can be forgiven for having the thought “It’s a bit weird to just re-do the cut scenes from a video game more or less verbatim”. C’mon.

This movie will not be good but I'll be damned if that twinkle in Harry's eye in the final shot before he ducks didn't make me smile.  At least he seems willing to properly inhabit the character again.

I agree that these trailers look pretty decent. I guarantee you that this is proof the movie will be absolutely dreadful.

That’s literally, to the letter, my experience. But the joy of that book is that it’s not very critically rigorous, it’s partly a critical analysis, partly a delightfully uncritical analysis. It was meant to be a starting point, not the final word. But sure enough and soon enough, horror films became these clunky deliv…

Candyman is a very interesting and moving encapsulation of a set of sociopolitical horrors, a really beautiful and powerful horror film. But it’s certainly Rose’s unwillingness to “lead the audience by the nose” that gives it it’s emotional depth.

Well it’s an economy of scale, innit. There would have to be a worldwide exodus before she was hurt financially, those residuals keep on flowing, as you point out.

These things the defenders say are so intelligence-insulting. “I’m dumb enough not to realise what I’m saying makes no sense so you must be too”. They’re all hanging out on the “unconscious incompetence” rung of the ladder and it shows because they all frame themselves as these rational voices of reason when a…

Great job, DC marketing department!

I think the point at which you start framing “not receiving $9 million dollars to act in a film due to your own choices” as though it's a loss or a deficit or a damage, is the point at which you’ve lost your marbles, even when the choice in question ISN’T a rejecting a vaccine.

I mean, they literally design these movies so that the stars are replaceable.

There’s a whole bunch of exciting emerging technologies way beyond what they did in The Irishman, and it’s developing really quickly and exponentially. ILM definitely have been developing some proprietary systems based on this tech - heck, all the big VFX houses have, that’s the arms race at the moment.