“‘Bridge on the River Kwai’ is a POW drama based on the real life horrors of the Thailand-Burma railway. War of the Planet of the Apes is an adventure story with armed monkeys.”

The Apocalypse Now comparison isn’t completely invalid, both are about male protagonists going on protracted journey’s through somewhat uncharted colonized territories on a mission to deal with people from their own societies who have “gone rogue.” But given that Apocalypse Now is itself an adaptation of Conrad’s…

Premium cable channel, essentially a competitor to HBO and Showtime. Also has original programing like Outlander, Spartacus: Blood on the Sand, and the 50 Cent vehicle Power.

“This already makes zero sense. Why is she typing it? Why can’t they have this conversation face-to-face? Why is it so important for her to type up the whole story—on a typewriter, no less—of how she met Cricket’s dad?”

Even if he was alone in a room with this hypothetical black person who’d fine with having racial slurs said in his presence, I would still likely question his motivations in taking them up on this offer. Like, even if he can say it in that situation why does he want to? Does he get off on it? Does his friend? Is this…

To a certain point, yeah, it’s irrelevant. Black people are not a monolith and there’s a spectrum of what any one black person is going to find offensive. That is true. But at the same time, if someone looks hard enough they can find a “black friend” somewhere who will “give permission” for pretty much anything and…

Captain Marvel is a hyper-violent satire of capitalism gone haywire in which a company sells an obviously immoral product as a solution for social ills that they themselves created?  Wild?

But...

I get the impulse that led to the CGI Peter Cushing.  Making a story about the building of the Death Star without that character would have been weird and recasting him when they’re trying to make a seamless transition into A New Hope also would have been a problem.  The problem is just that the technology wasn’t…

Is he still on his Christian music bullshit?

Anyone notice that the ship kind of looked like a cock?

If only Warner Media had some other streaming service they could just bundle this content into...

So, does Stephen King have any more prison stories?  If so, someone probably has more free time now.

A bunch of those seem to be coming on August 1st and then leaving on August 31st... wtf?

Okay was that a joke or is my memory swiss cheese? I remember Robert California being interviewed in the previous season’s finale but then when the post-Carrell season premiered it was explained that he was immediately promoted and Ed Helms took over as branch manager.

I guess they viewed movie roles as being a different thing from TV roles?

Moonlight Cinematic Universe

Maybe, but the fact that this “cool genre flick” ends with its “cool” protagonists screwing everything up at every turn and everyone ending up dead (except for maybe the asshole who refuses to tip), there is clearly some subversion there.  There’s plainly a throughline of these guys being more bark than bite and not…

Don’t most “child prodigies” end up wildly under-achieving in life?

The problem with Kylo as a main villain is that he didn’t feel like a credible threat. He got his ass kicked in the first film and he was played like a chump in the second, there was no real feeling like this guy had any real ability to take over or run the galaxy on his own in a third film so the brought in a bigger…