Drat, I just don’t remember the date of Labor Day off the top of my head. May Day is so easy to remember!

Sounds like good news after the disappointment of “Renfield” (and Ovredahl’s last couple movies). I do wonder why that cast list includes just one character with an eastern European name. I was expecting the film to just make all of them Anglos out of convenience, but an exception makes the rest stand out.

It’s kind of weird that MLK day is scheduled in the winter, when there are already too many winter holidays and it’s a worse season to have time off. If it was instead set for the anniversary of his “I Have a Dream” speech, it would be in August.

Not so young as to be shocking, but still a life cut shorter than average.

He’s angry at videogames

Never heard of this person before. Per Bullock’s Wikipedia page, he was a photographer. Curious how old he was when he died.

The Angry Videogame nerd ranked every Dracula adaptation based on faithfulness here:

Blade 2 is inferior to the original. Bringing back Kris Kristofferson after he was killed in the original was a lame retcon, and it has CGI fights that look like a videogame.

Memento is indeed great, but Nolan’s Insomnia is not. No need for it to exist when people can just watch the superior original.

Fair point, it was well received but didn’t make that much money.

I thought there was inordinate focus on the revocation of his security clearance (and later Lewis Strauss’ nomination), and they wanted to highlight Jean because of her coming up in that. Although since they kept in Oppenheimer attributing the name “Trinity” to John Donne’s poetry (while naming it, rather than in…

Years ago M. Night Shyamalan was the exemplar director who had broken out with a hit genre movie and then proceeded to disappoint with his next ones. He’s recovered somewhat now, so the poster boys for that now would appear to be Blomkamp and Duncan Jones. I had speculated in the past that a low budget horror movie…

“These days” there’s still less overlap between the BP nominees and the most commercially successful films than there was for most of the Oscars’ history.

You misspelled “Empire” and “Emprie” in one place above. I agree that 2049 is probably better than the original Bladerunner, and I also enjoyed Covenant as an improvement over Prometheus (Oram’s stupidity is the one bit that annoys me, while there’s a lot more of that in Prometheus).

Bob Odenkirk wasn’t even nominated? Surprising.

Sonny and Cher starring The Good Times

Ok, doing some searching I found that Marta’s lawyer is the source of the landlord explanation:

That’s a reasonable prior on a kidnapping charge, but the linked article doesn’t say that. Do you have a link that does? I saw someone in a comment at the link saying his “accessory” status stems from being a landlord whose property was used by a woman in dispute with her aunt, but again it was just some commenter.

That way you can get multiples in one gulp. Same way salmon season is when they’re returning to spawn.

Edge of Tomorrow might be my favorite Tom Cruise movie, but my understanding is that it wasn’t very commercially successful and Doug Liman has been doing the opposite of what it would take to get a blank check from studios for most of his career.