The second season was announced before the first season was finished, and was confirmed to have been ordered before the first episode aired. Hate watching had nothing to do with this.

The thing is, you absolutely CAN make an entire show centered around obnoxious solipsists (Seinfeld, Curb, Always Sunny), but you have to accept that’s what you’re doing and lean into it. Velma tries to hedge its bets by giving everyone emotional connections and having characters learn lessons, which makes everything s…

I’d say so. Of all the found footage movies that have been made since, it’s still far more believable than the vast majority of them. It feels precisely like what you’d get from three young hopeful documentarians getting lost in the woods. That can make it grating at points, but it also makes things work extremely…

It has nothing to do with everyone’s race and everything to do with the characters being intensely unlikable and unfunny. There were a couple good gags (the fog festival being the best), but everything it tried to do was done far better by the movie Bottoms, which is essentially just the second episode of Velma…

Yeah, he’s acting like the entertainment industry wasn’t powered for over a century by sexual coercion. I’ll take a viral TikTok over that.

There were plenty of vapid one-hit wonders and temporary sensations that time forgot because they were ultimately forgettable.

The gap between Whiplash and La La Land was two years, the gap between La La Land and First Man was two years, the gap between First Man and Babylon was four years, and the gap between Babylon and this new one will be three years.

I feel like making a sequel to a drama a musical counts as a big swing regardless of the rest of the context.

At the very least New York, New York is significantly less well-trodden ground for Scorsese knockoffs.

It feels silly to call the sequel to a comic book movie that made over a billion dollars a “big swing” but... well, this looks like as big a swing as you could possibly get for that. Kudos to them for not resting on their laurels when they very easily could have.

Oh absolutely, she was juuuuust ready to blow up around then. X happened to hit at exactly the right moment to ride the hype from Scream ‘22 without having to pay post-Scream prices for her (or especially post-Wednesday prices).

In a Valley of Violence starred Ethan Hawke, John Travolta and Karen Gillan, and while X was mostly smaller actors at the time, Mia Goth was already well on her way up, Brittany Snow was recurring in the Pitch Perfect movies and Kid Cudi ain’t really inconspicuous either. He’s never worked with people who have their…

The most successful Matrix follow-up is arguably The Animatrix, so there’s some precedent for other teams taking the basic setup in different directions and succeeding.

Oh the jobs definitely won’t come back the way they were, or if they do it’ll be for significantly less, but as AI becomes more expensive to utilize (because we’re still in the “crank it out as cheap as possible while running on VC until we’re embedded” phase) and the quality continues to be more trouble than it’s…

The fear behind “AI is going to replace our jobs” isn’t rooted in a belief that AI is capable of doing a good job or is worth the money, but in the belief that plenty of upper-level management is incredibly credulous about any and all tech buzzwords. Remember how much time and money was wasted on “blockchain” and…

It doesn’t have an intended purpose. Like most tech grifts of the past decade it’s a solution in search of a problem, and the only problem it’s actually good at solving is streamlining scams.

AI is being sold to the general populace as a way to automate mundane tasks so we can focus on the fun stuff, but it’s being sold to management as a way to replace workers with a cheaper and faster substitute.

The Tom Hardy thing was on the set of This Means War. On The Hustle she felt up Anne Hathaway without telling her first.

“Climate change” is an abstract self-created problem. There’s no definitive victory and no catharsis.

When a massive element of the movie’s impact and success hinges on the verisimilitude of the presentation, fucking up interstitials actually kinda matters! It’s the graphic design equivalent of the costume department having the host wearing Crocs. The movie is designed to look like a lost 70s broadcast and they…