Elevator pitch: "It's Die Hard in a tailoring shop!"

There’s an Iris Apatow now? Judd certainly seems very IDGAF about nepotism.

...but enough about The Mandalorian!

I’ve never understood the backlash to Boba Fett’s supposed awesomeness. It’s telling how Vader feels it necessary to give him special instructions about “NO disintegrations”, and that Fett actually gives him lip at one point (“He’s no good to me dead”) in The Empire Strikes Back. It’s a very good way to reveal…

For all of Gladiator’s faults, I never thought it had bad action scenes? If anything, I struggle to think of anyone in western cinema who’s better at depicting sweaty, brutal, historical action than Scott.

It’s very much a refutation of “we can never know what happened”, the film definitely has a morally satisfying point of view in that regard. There are two scenes that are genuinely tough to sit through, but the rest of it is mainly court intrigue, psychological investigations, and a bit of brutal medieval action.

FWIW, last night I saw a bunch of 10 year olds talk up a storm about all the cool stuff they’d just seen in Afterlife while leaving the cinema. Maybe kids doesn’t have much of a discerning taste, and mainly latch on to the stuff adults like and champion in the pop culture landscape?

Sure. I was referring to whether it damaged her career or not, but I can see how it could be read as something akin to slut shaming. Not my intention.

EDIT: Sorry, replied to the wrong post.

I get that women generally suffer greater repercussions in situations like these, but does it really apply to Pamela Anderson? She was a model and international sex symbol who acted in films and TV shows exploiting that angle before the sex tape, and she kept doing the same thing afterwards?

AKA "Scraping the barrel".

I do think his schtick is fairly insufferable, but I doubt nearly 70.000 people care about him enough to actively and strongly want him to not appear in a particular film. This is just a safe, quick and easy way to be mean.

Some of the showstoppers sounded delicious if seen as just a list of ingredients, but I really don’t get how they get even slightly better by being packed together in a thick package of dry pastry and then more or less boiled. Not my cup of tea at all, but it made for an eventful final challenge. Noel and Matt’s…

Freya’s show stopper looked like something out of Bloodborne, a living, bleeding cake. Metal as hell, but I can see how it wouldn’t be to Paul’s and Prue’s tastes. George, Amanda and possibly Lizzie seem like obvious candidates for the chopping block, but beyond that there’s a group of really strong bakers to duke it…

That’s some pretty intense backpedaling about the releasing/shooting in 4K thing... Still, Sonnenfeld is an interesting and articulate guy. I felt like I learned stuff about the process of directing and shooting a movie by reading this. Also, this is the second time I’ve read about him throwing shade at Penny Marshall…

Wow, Pierce Brosnan looks and sounds about as enthusiastic as a man reading from cue cards with a gun pointed at him from off camera. I’m guessing that this will end up as just another one of the Rock’s okay-ish but deeply uninteresting action collaborations with a journeyman director, but then again, that kill does…

Leila’s knowledge of baking really adds a lot o these already good reviews. Also, there’s no way in hell anyone could convince me that Jürgen’s date-filled Pavlova could have tasted anything but awful. 

+ it allows him to do his badass statue walk and turns.

There is some precedent for the Flash being aware of comic book stuff on a meta level, so maybe Batman ‘89 was a real movie in his universe? Not that WB would ever go with something like that, but it’s a fun idea. 

What the hell is he saying at 0:58?!