The fact that Ritchie already cast the original 80's Young Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) in his first flick, Lock Stock, is beautiful synergy. Having said that, I am still waiting for Holmes film #3. I know Ritchie and Downey Jr signed off and locked the final script for their third Sherlock outing and was supposed…

The Batman is another example of a poorly lit film. And even Star Trek: Picard Season 3, a show that should be bright and colorful, leans towards unnecessary darkness (though not to the extent that you can’t see anything).

See, I don’t buy this argument at all, that it’s all the streamers’ fault, messing with what was fundamentally good cinematography. Because you know what movies I never complain about being too dark when watching on Netflix or Max or whatever streaming device I’m using? MOVIES THAT EXISTED BEFORE STREAMING WAS EVEN A…

I’m curious how the picture will look on a Blu-ray/4K disc. Often, those just look better than streaming.

Tbh when you think about Knives Out more it really falls apart, not just on the mystery side but on the character side. She’s a good nurse because she didn’t check the medication before giving it to him but felt the weight? She’s this weird idealized noble poor person too, a characterization that icks me out a bit…

Episode two, the entire sequence of slow music building-up and final ‘assembly’ of the clone army touted as the ‘good guys’, knowing what one knows... goosebumps. Every. Time.

“So this is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause”. Sadly, it has only got truer since.

The Vader shadow. I’ve heard that it was unintentional. I don’t know if that makes it more or less cool.

I mean, that’s a totally legit question, but also, if everyone’s working out in the middle of the desert, even the folks who aren’t Mad Maxing on camera are a little bit, like everyone has bandanas around their neck to block out grit, everyone’s got glasses or whatever, everyone’s dirty and kind of gross from working…

They call it Method Directing.

So even the people who put her make-up on in the mornings also had to be in full make-up and costume? Even the catering table people? Her driver? The concierge, bellboy... everyone decked out in apocalypse gear?

Exactly. I would not have known about this interview if I hadn't read about it on the AVClub. Pot kettle!

I’m more inclined to think we should he blaming editorial for this; there’s no way the demand for “content” covering this story wasn’t coming down from on high, IMO, and that’s the real source of this kind of trickle down toxicity. 

It woulda been better if the head of the high table had been Swayze. But alas...

I still think John Wick’s high-table should have turned out to have been comprised of all the past actresses he’s worked with, like Bullock, Winona, Carrie Ann Moss... and then reveal that his in-movie (not) dead wife is sitting at the top. And it turns out she faked her death just to get the great baba yaga back in…

I mean, a more accurate headline would be “Miller never would have made Mad Max 2 if not for Peter Weir’s advice”. It would be pretty weird if Miller was still getting pep talks from a guy who hasn’t made a movie in almost 15 years.

Shirley Valentine’s husband for the win!

I remain impressed by Ritchie’s Sherlock movies; seen them a bunch of times.  In the stories, Holmes was, in fact, pretty physical, or could be, so the movies work for me, a sort-of-Holmes-purist. They’re pretty funny too.

Not Oxford Blues?