It’s not unusual for actors to be abused, nor is it unusual for promises of a share of the profits to come to nothing due to shady accounting practices, nor is it unusual for non-union contracts to include rights to the actors’ names and likenesses in perpetuity, but this really stood out to me from the Variety…

I agree that the major movie studios aren’t interested in distributing movies that won’t create huge profits. There’s a hole in the market that needs to be filled. You’d think A24 was that hole, but they aren’t indie anymore.

RE: “an extravagantly stylized pulp burlesque that is at once an objectively lousy picture and just about the coolest damn thing I’ve ever seen.”

Wait, so what did I just watch? A teaser?

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…

Not Oxford Blues?