A lot of the discussion of this show (not this review specifically, to be clear) don’t give it enough credit for how funny it is.  The sequence with Cassie in the hot tub is a masterpiece of cringe comedy.

This article mostly discusses Hepburn, which is understandable since this was her big star turn (and Wyler knew how to use her better than any other director would for the remainder of the 1950s), but on my most recent rewatch of this I thought about Peck’s role and how his casting plays against the script:  if you…

Kingpin doesn’t really seem like a good fit for a major villain for some of those higher-powered characters.

It’s also a bit awkward in that pretty much every MCU hero kills people -- the idea that they were going to hold to the unrealistic “heroes don’t kill” idea that often cropped up in the old comics went out the window as soon as Iron Man mowed down terrorists by the score.

It’s not really any different from almost any other action movie in that regard though (including most superhero films), so it’s very weird to single out Kingsman for that. People of all political stripes have fantasies of just doing it themselves.

Thick eyebrows have been back for the better part of a decade now, thanks to Cara Delevingne.

It’s not like men with dwarfism aren’t also frequently ridiculed and made to feel inferior in our own society (even though it’s obviously better now than it used to be).

I don’t see any reason that Robert Wise should be the only director who ever gets a shot at adapting West Side Story.

It’s not a remake of the 1961 film. It’s a new adaptation of one of the great Broadway musicals, which Spielberg was a fan of as a child (via the best-selling soundtrack) before the Wise film was even made.

It would best be described as an intermittently-acknowledged character trait for most of the time from the 1980s miniseries until the Fraction/Aja run.  Clint got the magic sort of hearing aid that basically functioned exactly as if he could hear normally most of the time, I imagine most writers who handled the…

Ahem, she’s not a Millennial, she’s Gen Z.

He does know musicals are not everyone’s cup of tea, right?

And when their bodies stop being as good at hitting the ball as in their youth, they will likely teach others to hit a ball.

The challenge of doing any sort of unauthorized biography about a person who is still alive (or whose important heirs are) is that you’re very exposed to the PR consequences of their displeasure, regardless of whether it’s accurate or dramatically interesting.  If you piss off Venus and Serena by portraying their…

I finished Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land (basically his version of Cloud Atlas), and am now starting Lindsay Ellis’ Truth of the Divine.

and the lack of police intervention is explained by a scene where Kevin’s older brother, Buzz (Devin Ratray), now a village cop, says between bites of burrito that his little brother calls in a fake “home alone” prank every year.

No, it wasn’t. Even aside from the Soviets being a negligible naval presence at that point (what navy they had had was largely destroyed during Operation Barbarossa), the Western Allies had been actively trying to bring the Soviets into the Asian theatre. It was a central objective of Allied strategy.

You’re free to think that, but regardless, as a result of that film’s struggles the studio wasn’t willing to go all-in.

Why would the studio have been more inclined to do that? Their reservations had nothing to do with the script; the book exists, they know approximately what will happen in it. It was entirely about whether the project was commercially viable, particularly in light of the failure of Villeneuve’s earlier Blade Runner…

Why isn’t it done already? Why didn’t he write the script for the entire thing in the first place? This isn’t two separate stories we’re talking about. It’s part 1 and part 2. The whole script should’ve been ready when it was first pitched to the studio.