I think that was his general attitude toward someone else owning his metaphorical children.

We could hold Lucas partly responsible for his prequels being so poorly received that it scared Disney into being slavish to a fault to the trappings of the original trilogy.

If you’re referring to me, I have an entirely different, less interesting wordpress blog.

The Laundromat at last pivots to “John Doe,” the whistleblower behind the Panama Papers leak, whose rationale for making the private info public was a moral imperative: a belief that the whole world needed to see what this still-anonymous insider saw in the numbers, the full scope of the con being pulled by the…

There are people who prank such phone scammers, which the AV Club has even highlighted in Great Job Internet posts.

Julian Assange said he was following Osama bin Laden’s strategy in trying to make the government so paranoid it rendered itself dysfunctional, and those kinds of operations similarly make it riskier for people to trust others about engaging in such activities. They’re less effective against lone-wolf terrorists, but…

This is the only other review I’ve read:

It’s a lousy commenting system.

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.