I’ve never seen this , think I’ll check it out. For UK /Ireland people of a certain age it must be weird to have a central character called ‘Sam Fox’ though , at least at the start anyway.

I think my favourite episode was the one when they did a dance routine at the end to cheer up the elder daughter whose dad had... missed her graduation or something I think. I watched the finale tonight and it was sweet and satisfying.

3. This is from Edgar Wright: eliminate the banter between the presenters.

maybe i’m in the minority, but i loved the Soderbergh Oscars last year. only a true maniac would choose to shoot a live event in 2.35 and primarily with steadicams but that’s why we love him, yeah? it looked cinematic as hell and maybe more importantly and to your point, completely different. it got rid of the cheap…

Free advice for the Academy: You know how millions of non-football fans watch the Super Bowl every year for just the friggin’ commercials? Work with the studios so major summer tentpoles are dropping trailers all night long during the Oscars. Viewership would jump dramatically if the audience was getting first looks…

“The Oscar’s have never been for hard-core movie buffs”?

Well there’s the switching director who calls cameras and assembles the show live, and then the creative director/producer who orchestrates and coordinates. And you’ve had filmmakers who have done much the same for live events.  Danny Boyle, for example, directed the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.  Same idea.

How long would the 2005 Oscars have been if Peter Jackson had directed them? They might still be going on.

And this year’s Oscars will be directed by... last year’s winner for Best Director

The Oscars should feel like a glamorous party the wittiest, coolest, people are invited to and you can watch. So keep the funny hosts. Keep the funny presenters, but make them entertaining. Assume everyone wants to hear a sound effects editor thank his mom. Assume sometimes the sound effects editor will go off script,…

The audience at home should win things just for watching.

Instead of a host, what if each year, the ceremony has a new, high profile director overseeing it all? That excites me more, the idea that each new ceremony could/will have an entirely different flavor, based upon the stewardship of that particular person. The Academy Awards, produced by...Greta Gerwig, Phoebe…

She damn well should be

There is no one involved with Demolition Man who shouldn’t be proud. Bullock, Stallone, Snipes, Dennis Leary, Benjamin Bratt, Bill Cobbs, Bob Gunton, Dan Cortese... some of their finest work.

Why shouldn’t she be? That movie owns.

Speed 2 is not a good film at all, but in the Annals of Really Terrible Movies, I honestly wouldn’t even put it in the Top 50. Maybe not even in the Top 100. Like, the premise is bad, but the actual movie itself it just... fine. Perfectly fine and forgettable.

This is Alec Guinness in like 1969, so no, it doesn’t seem that odd.

Oh fuck, I can’t believe I didn’t think of this earlier

I was wondering how long this series could go?  Stede Bonnet was a pirate for like a year at best, he was hanged in Charles Town in 1718, having outlived Blackbeard somehow.  He also didn't really kill anyone until his final battle when he got stuck in a river like an idiot.  Piracy was a crime but murder wasn't as…

Is this why Michael Cera was such a great Tobey in Molly’s Game?