>We had no idea that peroxide was so readily available in 285 B.C., but the film’s historical inaccuracies go beyond Farrell’s Miss Clairol locks

Charleton Heston did a Jackson movie called The President’s Lady (with Susan Hayward) that painted him in a far, far too positive a light. It’s not really about his presidency, though, so much as his marriage and the whole mess that was. So they cheat by making him a beleaguered man in love rather than a genocidal…

Yes, it was just several hours of torture porn that eraised anything approaching likable or human.  Akin to just a demo reel of all the bad moments in your life.

St-Denis, Ste-Geneviève, and St-Marcel. Plus for one specific portion of Paris, St-Germain.

From the Picking Nits Department:  Saint Denis is the patron saint of France, not Joan of Arc.

All were heavy smokers, not coincidentally. 

Alexander is great ...if you’re from Ireland .

I think it was Densmore who said Kilmer’s performance was absolutely uncanny. I didn’t realize they didn’t like the film though.

Can there be a category for good films that are still terrible biopics of their subjects? A Beautiful Mind comes to mind. Crowe was excellent, the movie was touching and interesting, but you get a very distorted view of John Nash, his wife, his work, and his illness.

When making The Conqueror, after they shot the outdoor scenes near a nuke testing site, the director Dick Powell had truckloads of that sand brought onto the soundstage to add verisimilitude to the indoor shots. Powell, Wayne, Moorehead and multiple others all developed cancer subsequently.

Blonde wasn’t a biopic. 

The Doors by Oliver Stone is another. The remaining members of the band hated the movie, but loved Val’s performance.

Please tell me that Spawn throne hides his feet.

Y’all forgot the most notorious example - My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies premiered on the same day (April 16, 1988) as a double-feature.

I haven’t yet bought tickets, but will almost certainly see both.  I do know people who plan to do the double-feature thing.

They are a UK union, not governed by US rules and regulations. Also UK union rules are weird, so they are barred from striking in solidarity.

Read the Variety article.   It is because the local union in the UK is legally barred from a solidarity strike with SAG.  For some weird reason, Linda and Gordon dont think that bit is important to mention.

To expand on the House of Dragon blurb:

This whole article and tone is kinda gross. Even if Madonna was revived from an OD from Narcan, can we try not to go with the “gotcha, you lying junkie” attitude since more than 130 people die in the US every single day from opioids? Multiple superstars have died now because of addiction. If shaming and guilting…

To be fair EMTs will Narcan (almost) any unrousable adult, since sadly overdose is so so very common.