I think they were talking about shows featuring people playing the game, not the game itself. Even though Mazes and Monsters, based on a novel by Rona Jaffe, featured a young Tom Hanks a little more than 40 years ago, the Community episode probably does mark the first time D&D players were depicted positively in film…

And yet, suffixes are included in most dictionaries because they have discrete meaning, which is certainly the most salient part of what makes a word a word. Since the point of Words of the Year is mostly to have a bit of fun with language and its constant evolution, it seems needlessly unfun to quibble about the…

Two units of meaning can make a single word despite the space between the morphemes, and generally as time goes on words composed of two units that co-occur in conjunction like that will lose the space between them, as for example firetruck or blackbird.

There’s a famous Sidney Harris (who used to do cartoons in science magazines) cartoon showing a store labeled “Adult Books”. In the window are books titled “Quantum Physics”, “Molecular Biology”, “Set Theory”, etc. The sex and violence that so often makes something R (or even NC-17) often are more interesting to…

Pretty clear it was or you wouldn’t have commented. Maybe you should write an apology note to Mr. Cameron?

What a king

They said 3 is already in post-production, some of 4 is done filming, and 5 is already written. Why would you expect films that aren’t coming out for 4 and 6 years respectively to be further along than “partially filmed” and “written”?

He filmed 2 and 3 at the same time, as well as the first part of 4.

Despite that fact that graphic violence is often considered “Adult content”,  Graphic violence does not inherently make a movie for adults.  Some people just don’t like to watch graphic murders but still want to watch a horror movie.  Yes PG-13 is meant to make sure the teens can go see this without a parent and sure…

It’s nice to actually see “uncanny valley” used to mean “creepy because it’s not quite photorealistic” rather than “creepy because it’s ugly AF”.

OH MY FUCKING GOD, I can’t believe I made it this long without figuring out this was that same director! (funny too because I actually check his imdb every so often to see if he has made anything else and I must have missed a year here) “Housebound” is better than just good, it’s like the ideal movie...I really…

I’d just like to note that Gerard Johnstone’s Housebound was also a good horror comedy.

Man, they got that monster design just right - believably plastic/rubber, but also just human enough to convey emotion and hit that uncanny spot.

And horror movies have the most ungrateful fandom of them all, for sure. Fandom that will call themselves horror fans while declaring most of the movies “bad but entertaining” and insult every movie director because freedom of expression or something. 

I don't know, if there was a committee behind Malignant, they must have been made of escaped mental patients because that film was utterly underpants on head backwards totally bonkers!

I’m pretty sure they’re not going to cast anybody as the Emperor.  The Emperor is set decoration, not a character.

As someone with a wife and daughter (and son who is adorable when he sings “We are never Getting Back Together” I agree that betting against Swift is like betting against the house. There is enough knowledge and talent in the room that you will lose big eventually.

As opposed to people like Martin Scorsese and Stephen Spielberg who work exclusively with amateurs who don’t know what they’re doing?

I don’t think any little revelation in a movie, like who/what the killer is, counts as a “twist,” or is intended as one by the filmmakers. It’s just a new place the movie is going to as it progresses. So if you think of Malignant as an M. Night movie with a shocking revelation that upends everything you thought you…

What? The writing could’ve been better, yeah. But James Wan is a superb director, and the acting wasn’t terrible.