I don’t think Christians consider Catholicism Christian

Do you think Catholics are not Christian?

I wonder how much of it was Christopher Tolkien being dead set against it, and blocking anything he had a hand in.

I’ve heard that one attributed to Dorothy Parker about Calvin Coolidge.

Yeah, that’s canon.

The weird thing is that they didn’t do it for one show that would really have benefited from it, The Sandman.

I’m with the studio on this, since I associate D&D with a… not quite a setting, but maybe a concept or platform for storytelling, rather than a particular story. To name a movie just Dungeons & Dragons would be a bit like calling it Marvel Comics or PlayStation.

The mistake they made was to write Dune books while being terrible writers. Their sequels are just as bad as their prequels.

It’s a shame a group that seemed so progressive decades ago seem to have pretty much become the establishment the were mocking.

I’m fairly sure that’s Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, the co-creators of The Venture Bros.

It might also have something to do with the fact that Mescal’s character in Aftersun is from Edinburgh. Particularly if they showed a clip of the movie in the program where the chyron appeared. So take it as a tribute to his accent work, perhaps?

She’s Jonah Hill’s sister, not Seth Rogen’s.

How quickly we forget Dear Evan Hansen. (Not quickly enough?)

My problem with Close was that I didn’t really buy the relationship between Rémi and Léo at the outset. It was too idealized, too romanticized, too one-dimensional, and didn’t, to me, feel true to boyhood—even granting that these were unusually sensitive boys who had somehow been shielded from any and all toxic…

And it’s also just not that good of a movie.

When I did a (non-chronological) rewatch of just about all the Disney theatrical animated features a number of years ago, I came to the conclusion that Pinocchio is the best of them all.

Would it have been wiser to call the cops? Yeah, maybe. But people don’t always make the wisest choices. Joseph Gordon Levitt’s character is a troubled teen who fancies himself a kind of detective, he’s just had a major shock, and doesn’t he also suspect that he may have been indirectly responsible for the death? It…

That’s the point. Judge Wargrave tells Dr. Armstrong that the plan is to “rattle” the murderer and make him incriminate himself. The doctor is led to imagine that on discovering the body, the murderer will say something like, “How can he be dead? I didn’t kill him yet!” Or will at least be confused, thrown off his…

The pandemic movie that comes to immediately mind is Doug Liman’s Locked Down, with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anne Hathaway. That got quite a lot of attention at the time. There are plenty of others, like Together (James McAvoy), Alone Together (Katie Holmes), Coastal Elites, etc.

I caught a recent preview screening of this. Östlund’s movies are all great, but in contrast with the reviewer I find Triangle of Sadness rather less impressive than Force Majeure or (in particular) The Square.