There was a pseudo-adaptation of The Cold Equations too recently to try that.

You’ve convinced me: time to have Batman fight Dracula again. He’s in the public domain, right?

Honestly, you saw it before I did.

the movie is missing something crucial, and that’s the gravitational pull of true infamy—the villainous magnetism of a Nicholson or a Pfeiffer or a Ledger

The Cameraman is no Man With a Movie Camera.

What was the last contemporary movie Spielberg did?

I remember reading William Forsyth’s “The Dogs of War” and getting to a part where it distinguished between the Mafia of Sicily and the Syndicate of America, having never heard of the latter.

Why would Renfield be centuries old?

I didn’t stick with Gotham long enough to know if Cobblepot smoked in that. Or if he did from the beginning, I don’t remember.

Kalanik seems different from the others. Uber is still a valuable company, and his business model is still successful & copied by competitors.

Not an old crone, but definitely a full-grown adult well past the point of “origin story” territory. ATJ herself was straining the bounds of plausibility as in her orphanage scenes (claiming to be 15 after someone says she’s 13) in Queen’s Gambit.

Here’s a more objective way to put it: Best Editing is much more heavily correlated with Best Picture.

I dug “The Deeper You Dig” (which I was able to watch for free without a subscription on Tubi). I wonder if there will be a DVD release with the alternate ending.

I haven’t read that book, but in William Stuntz “The Collapse of American Criminal Justice” he discusses the federal governments crackdown on Mormon polygamy as a precursor to Prohibition and War on Drugs. Of course, he thinks the last one was the worst in terms of its corrosive effects on the law.

Two thirds of that list is from Metal Church, which is some bad luck. I had also been under the impression Nevermore was from Texas instead.

Eh, it makes sense to use a different actor for the prequel. It’s not like she was Ian McDiarmid caked in old-age makeup. And Fury Road itself had already replaced the most iconic actor associated with the franchise.

Maybe not if he was 15 minutes late. But 3 hours? After he was very specifically told that he needed to be there on time? Somebody had better be telling him that’s not acceptable.

I’m not sure which ones you’re referring to. Geoff Tate is still alive.

Shorts seem the most easily relegated, as a relic of an earlier time when one-reelers would play in front of features. But editing is actually a pretty big deal.

Was his offense against black lesbians?