I assume the claim in the headline of this Newswire is correct, but I find it interesting that the article itself provides absolutely no evidence for it.

I find it surprising that she’s married in this version. I didn’t see the film, but I was under the impression the character was single & relatively young for a teacher there. It does seem like it would be harder for her to get away with such behavior in this scenario.

Can Ray Fisher do a better Michael Caine impression than Mel Gibson? Quite possibly.

I look forward to Momoa’s version of Little Man Tate.

I liked Wheatley’s Sightseers, A Field in England and Free Fire (less so Kill List), but this seems a bit outside his forte. Then again, this was a more “gothic” story than Hitchcock usually did (and I don’t think it’s one of his best).

Misuse of the term “reboot” bugs me more. I also don’t consider a remake to be a reboot if there was never a sequel to create any line of continuity which could be preserved or discarded.

Her turning into Pauline Kael at least fits with all the other transformations in the film.

I thought O’Bannon disliked the reveal of Ash being an android.

Watching “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” this weekend got me thinking that his similarly named fellow-countryman Tom Harper makes accessible middlebrow movies which could have been Oscar-bait, but somehow “Wild Rose” didn’t even get a Best Song nomination despite having an Oscar winner among the writers.

Matthew Dessem of Slate has an explainer which agrees with me on this issue:

I watched “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” before listening to this, and I didn’t pick up on an upstate New York setting. When Jake mentioned the “obvious reasons” for the musical Oklahoma to come back every few years, I assumed it was because his hometown was in Oklahoma, hence his highschool putting on a production…

Would this janitor really write that story? Complete with all those interruptions of any quotation of an older work for falling short of modern standards of political correctness? I say such an explanation is better left implicit and replaced with a surreal non-ending.

I don’t think it’s quite so clear that he “chooses” to freeze to death as that he removes his clothes in response to some unspecified source of mental duress and then gets out of his car because a hallucination of a pig told him to. His brain was presumably not making accurate predictions as to the consequences of his…

GTFO is incompatible with sticking with Rey, since Rey is committed to the Resistance (and of course Finn was already fighting the FO in the first movie, starting before he even met her). And if he was prioritizing self-preservation over the larger cause, Rose’s “lesson” would be the opposite of a change for him.

Usually Les Miserables is the film people give as an example of that.

He’s supposedly very difficult to work with. It’s been said he was written out of Boardwalk Empire for that reason (as was Paz de la Huerta), and there was an interview with Jon Cameron Mitchell discussing Hedwig & the Angry Inch where he noted Pitt deliberately doing things to mess with him, which he attributed to…

I only watched the first 3/4 of that, but I stand firm in my belief that the French courts got it wrong: it’s not a ripoff of Escape From New York, but instead the middle act of the first Star Wars movie. Guy Pearce is clearly playing a cocky Han Solo knockoff rather than the stoic Snake Plissken, and the President’s…

He’s a POV character who takes it upon himself to be the antagonist (to someone unaware of his antagonism).

I imagined his current wife releasing a statement to the effect that while she was not around to personally witness the alleged events at the time, she can attest to her husband’s anatomy being best described as “adequate”. And yes, that particular word choice was inspired by Sonia Greene.

Maybe she auditioned for the latter film and he showed her the former?