He must have been confused about who was directing Jackie Brown then.

I prefer the remake of Pet Sematery to the original film. I’d even rank it above It Chapter 1, which I thought was vastly overrated (though still better than Chapter 2).

Yeah, it’s a general truism that horror works better the less the audience understands the source of said horror. Shining more light on something demystifies it. I think that’s why the form works well for short stories and segments of anthology films. Dragging something out for a long time will diminish the scares. A…

I also enjoyed his Evil Dead more than I expected. I actually don’t like the original Evil Dead that much, preferring the sequels even if I’m normally not that into horror comedies. So even though he’s already done a good job with someone else’s franchise, I don’t have high hopes for this. When he last made a sequel…

du Welz’ name sounded familiar. He directed Calvaire, which I watched a month ago. A very strange film which I can’t say that I’d recommend.

She didn’t run the second season of Killing Eve.

What a story. Thanks for the link.

I was reading Less Wrong when Roko first proposed his Basilisk, and there was nothing about “increasing human goodness”. The robot only exists to torture people who could have helped it come into existence but didn’t. You might think “Nobody would willingly help it in that case, so it can never come into existence and…

It’s amusing this is being covered just as admissions data from that Harvard lawsuit is being revealed:

I was briefly confused by the mention of the Felicity Huffman character having a son she was trying to scam into college, but I suppose changing some details helps to avoid getting sued.

I’ve never watched Between Two Ferns, but Jiminy Glick isn’t trying to “punch” anybody. He’s just a horrible interviewer completely ignorant of the person he’s supposed to be interviewing.

I’ve only seen the first two, and didn’t care for the second. I had heard good things about the fourth though and was planning on skipping over the third to that one. I’d been under the impression that the third was just a joke, so this ranking surprised me.

His dad was an actor.

I have the advantage of knowing with hindsight that there would be huge losses on the part of small banks when commercial real estate crashed.

It didn’t work, because I still didn’t find the story that interesting.

25th Hour is the reason I object to people saying David Benioff is just a terrible writer, although I only saw the movie and didn’t read the book.

It sounds like we can tell Colby Cosh his fears regarding the sequel were misplaced.

Are the ones coming from central America considered “political” refugees?

I also found it strange that the film tried to make the protagonist something of a standard-bearer for modern ideas against the conventional wisdom of the past even though the real guy wasn’t.

I think it’s rather early to talk about guarantees.