So much for the unfounded hopes that Trevorrow was the guy to right the ship after the crapfest that was Fallen Kingdom. If you’re gonna say a dinosaur is like the Joker, it damned well better wear a purple suit with a fake flower on the lapel...

Yeah, it’s just a pitfall for writing and editing—there are plenty of them in the English language, and most of the time, working around them isn’t terribly difficult, but it does require some thought. Indeed (not that I’d accuse AVC LA of ever having anyone copyedit anything) this article looks like what you’d get if…

The Oscars might no longer be broadcast on network television ten years from now, and they might not be as big a to-do as they are now, but I’d bet that some cable network or streaming service will still see some value in the ceremony and the brand. For all the handwringing about “saving” the Oscars, there’s a market…

Another vote for Brick, here. The only Johnson joint that didn’t really work for me was Brothers Bloom, and I think that one might have worked if Ruffalo and Adrien Brody had taken each other’s roles.

I guess I tapped out before that became clear. But in S1, the show was clearly aligned with the Abrams idea that the Federation having ideals it actually took seriously was an impediment to drama. It always felt to me like DS9 considered the Federation having ideals an opportunity for drama. It’s a big part of the…

I kept on forgetting who in Casablanca I was supposed to be: was it Claude Rains or Conrad Veidt?

Agreed. As always, it’s not so much the words used as the skill with which they’re used, although sometimes I’m sad that we didn’t manage to come up with something new that worked as gender neutral singular pronouns. Using they is easier, because it was an existing usage.

I think we’re talking two different kinds of cynicism. The type of cynicism you were talking about, I think, is a “this is a business” kind of cynicism, because for all the show’s high aspirations, Roddenberry loved the idea of Star Trek based merchandising, to the point where in one episode he wrote a monologue for…

You’re being too humble. It’s extremely helpful for this article! I wish you’d edited it.

A fine sentiment, but repeating it doesn’t make it true. A shockingly large percentage of humanity doesn’t even get core concepts like “It’s wrong to hurt people,” or even “It’s wrong to hurt children.” At best, maybe you’d get a plurality of people to admit that “it’s wrong to hurt animals unnecessarily.” But what “un…

It reminds me of March of the Penguins. You have all these images of penguins heroically huddling together on an ice cap, and that wonderful Morgan Freeman narration telling us that these penguins mate for life and sacrifice for their children, and how that must mean that they can feel love, just like us. And it…

There’s still the Batgirl film. Don’t give up hope.

It’s confusing because the story isn’t written well. Plenty of stories, here and elsewhere, about people whose preferred pronouns are they/them that aren’t this much of a clusterfuck.

No, we are not. I’ll believe it exists when I’m watching it on HBO Max, 45 days after it’s allegedly in theaters.

Will Smith will be fine. Being barred from attending or receiving Oscars will not stop people from going to see Bad Boys 4, or Netflix from greenlighting Bright 3.

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This is true, and OP is wrong. However, it is also true that the use of “they/them” in this article makes for a damn rough read, almost rough enough to make me wish ze pronouns had become a thing. Maybe Hughes should’ve used proper nouns more often, to help distinguish between the various theys in the story: Miller,…

Yeah, it’s part of the reason people know enough about their private life to talk about it. Smith also talked about his marriage quite a bit in the run up to final Oscars voting.

I don’t know that awards presentations are boring in and of themselves. But the fact is, the Grammies turning their show into a concert is both smart and doable (and pretty much what they’ve done all along). The comparable thing would be having Oscar nominees do live performances of scenes from movies they’ve been…

Wait, you might be on to something: what if the handies weren’t just metaphorical? Would you watch then?