Really good list. I only haven’t seen The Equalizer movies, but if I would add anything, it would be his work in The Great Debaters, which he also directed.

I like his Dune better.

Unforgivable after his anti-abortion bill, but he insisted the energy companies keep charges high during our terrible winter storm as well. He’s inhuman, rivaled only by Gov. DeSantis across the gulf. It’s like they are competing to see which leader can be the bigger piece of shit.

quipped that I had only the two As in my pen name to spare. “C+ C+ Dowd,

wants Drake’s help in recovering—stealing, really—a centuries-old ornate cross that Sully claims is one of two secret keys that may unlock Ferdinand Magellan’s lost cache of gold. Sure, says Drake, because, hey, why not? That degree of functional cutscene efficiency predominates throughout.

**Mild spoiler**Nate and Chloe not hooking up (when that’s their history in the game canon!) is one of those things I’m weirdly hung up on about this movie. Is it because Sony doesn’t want Tom Holland to be viewed that way? They can go as far as shirtless, but there’s still something boyish about him.

Because so much of the motivation is about finding Sam, I would say the movie incorporates more from Uncharted 4 than from any of the others. Which is reasonable, because as you said, it’s the one UC game that put the most effort into its narrative. (And I suspect that had a lot to do with The Last of Us being such a…

Sifu is the type of game that should have a demo, because I really need to know if I’d be into it or not.

As long as they show the guy shooting bees out of his hands at people, they’ll have done their jobs.

Yea, I’m over meta

I’ll take a cue from AV Club’s “The Ballots”, breaking down my thoughts as such:

As I watched Nightmare Alley, I kept wishing they weren’t telling us his tricks because I think the question of “if he’s real or if he’s a fraud” was done better in The Illusionist. And then that got me thinking about how a movie can show its tricks and still work the con, as Nightmare Alley tries to do, and even…

I’ll say it: I didn’t find Benedict Cumberbatch convincing as a cowboy at all. Plemmons and Dunst were great- and better (and honestly, I wish the story was more about Dunst’s character, and her decent into alcoholism) but the lead performance is the most showy, so naturally it’s going to get all the attention.

I mean, I guess? Can’t really shake my fist at the Oscars this year, because when I look at the snapshot of 2021's “best” I ‘d probably pick a lot of the same movies. It’s just that I’m not all that high on them. It is what it is.

I have no idea what your beef with Judi Dench is, but this comment made lol

I’m with you, however, I am aware this is a minority opinion. Most people seem to love Dune (my suspicions feel like it has more to do with positive bias about the director, rather than the movie as a story) but at the very least, it does deserve its technical nominations.

Of most of the movies nominated, I’d say they were fine but not great. And quite frankly, it’s been this way for a little while. This is just where we’re at now when it comes to awards films.

Joey Lawrence is “Woa!”

This is pretty handy, but it needs a legend (what’s WOW?)

That’s pretty good