Honestly them trying to go into the zone of “just animate the manga” is probably the right call. So much of what makes Junji Ito’s horror disturbing is in the intense detail he applies to all of his creations. Going black-and-white with the slightly weird animation to make it seem uncanny and different also leans into…

One Piece looks fun but I thought the live action Cowboy Bebop looked fun  too

Yeee, that animation style for Uzumaki and being B&W makes it so unsettling just by being completely different from what we’re used to seeing. It gives me a real tinge of German expressionism that seems like the perfect seasoning to bring Ito to the screen.

Mother’s Basement did a breakdown of the trailer and a lot of the details he pointed out hyped me up more about it, they seem to have a lot of the little touches done well and done right. I’m still prepared for it to sizzle out like a dog turd in the sun, but until then I’m optimistic

The One Piece trailer actually surprised me.  There are still some tiny things that I’m on the fence about, but at this point I’m definitely going to give it a fair shot and watch it with an open mind.  I might actually have to watch it twice since the Japanese dub is being handled by the anime’s dub team.

As someone who regularly trawls weird little Wikipedia pages about strange phenomena from decades ago, I think it would be a shame for comprehensive documents and archives about this phenomena to be lost. It’s a pretty unique moment in contemporary film history which I’m sure weirdos like me will write their…

Memento and The Prestige are certainly his best. There was nothing to compare with the experience of watching Memento in the early 2000s. You could see right away that Nolan was a director of rare talent. And The Prestige is one of my ten favorite films, easily. To paraphrase Lenny, it gets better every time I watch…

Distillaception.

“this film might be the purest possible distillation of Nolan’s own cinematic philosophy” - The Prestige

i think if there are simultaneous showings you should just run back and forth from one to the other every half hour to get a really blended experience.

And R-rated, no less.

It’s funny because the dude’s crowing about something that we knew was happening THEN. This is not “news,” it’s barely even a “gotcha.”

I knew when I clicked on this story there would some conspiracy theorizing goober in the comments. 

Are you on some kind of weird troll training program where you have to start by haunting the barely functional comment section of an entertainment site?

Do you send screenshots to the underside of a bridge somewhere hoping they’ll give you a username and password for Twitter?

You guessed it..,Frank Oppenheimer?

Might be weird but I’m curious as to how this film portrays his brother, Frank. He’s the guy who pioneered the concept of a hands-on science museum that got me (and plenty of others) interested in science.

“...almost one-third of official recent Covid deaths...”

50m for a slow paced depressing 3 hour historical biopic is very impressive still.  These films don't tend to set the box office on fire.

Not sure what a rightwing covid denier is doing lurking around the AV Club, but here:

One of the greatest joys of the last few years of pop culture has been the end result of Nolan moving Oppenheimer to Universal out of spite for Warner brothers, and Warner brothers scheduling Barbie on the same day as Oppenheimer out of spite for Nolan, has resulted in TWO radically different, but exciting movies by…