Really? Nothing about the fact that octopuses can unscrew a jar to get at food inside? Something, I guess it should be noted, that they have no real background with, being under the sea and all.

Cephalopods are also increasing in number as the oceans warm.

I’d put my money on them. Just don’t store it in a jar where…

I saw that disaster in the theater.

It took real work to make a movie dumber than Krull, but they pulled it off.

I hope there’s Marvel tie-in media that discusses how many lightsaber users end up cutting their fingers, hands and arms off.

Most journalists work at local publications and broadcast outlets around the country. Reporters at the Indianapolis Star or the Dallas Morning News or the Seattle Times are covering what’s happening in their cities and their communities.

Ignoring the fact that these journalists are the only ones covering city hall and…

There is not a priestly class of people called “journalists” who are able to produce Certified Real Journalism, which exists on a higher plane from the tawdry musings of the rabble.

God damn it, FINE, I’ll give you your fucking money, Disney. Between this and Kat Dennings in WandaVision, I don’t really have any fucking choice, now do I?

Lots of actors are actually pretty shy in real life. And press junkets are famously draining.

Spider-Verse is great, almost like it’s from a different company that didn’t make Venom or the Amazing Spider-Movies.

They’ll either buy Sony or wait for Sony to shit the bed with two or three Spider-Man movies in a row and roll back up and offer to buy the Spider-Man IP for dirt cheap.

They’ve had the template for how to make a good superhero movie for years. They just aren’t willing to commit to it.

Yeah, core Sims has no draw for me. But a wizarding life simulator? They might have got me with this one. (To be fair, the previous beach/island and Indiana Jones-style expansions almost did it, too.)

That is some terrible parenting. I don’t even let my kids necessarily have the last word on fast food when we’re on a road trip.

I still can’t get over George Lucas, of all people, being worried that the original Star Wars movies weren’t appealing enough to kids and wanting to have a kid surrogate to theoretically engage them with the first prequel.

I feel like there’s probably a market for glasses mounted cameras. I’m pretty sure there’s not a market for ones that shoot in a weird circular format and are for Snapchat only (which I thought was true for at least the first version).

I hope this remains true to the original Dark Crystal by opening with 10 minutes of narration over watching a gelfling fish.

Besides Christopher Nolan, is there a filmmaker who causes more cultural mass hysteria with their releases than Quentin Tarantino?

It’s a podcast from the Ringer, which isn’t mentioned in the above write-up. After Tarantino, it’ll shift back to being about other filmmakers.

Also, if you’re really concerned about the planet’s health, maybe stop using dry cleaning altogether.

The Washington Post has really gone downhill since they switched to Kinja.

The list is probably longer than you give it credit for. Off the top of my head:

1) Corporate exploitation of space
2) Earth remains humanity’s primary home
3) For the most part, technology has an unlovely, industrial, brutalist feel
4) Alien beings have been encountered, but intelligent contemporaries or superiors to…