The late Kermit Roosevelt Jr is really disappointed you didn’t pick him.

Is Holy Spider a Bergman or Dio reference?

He’s got a number of them. One is even titled “The Premature Burial”.

An impressive Random Roles in that I have managed to not see any of these. I’ve seen other episodes of Drunk History, but not his.

That reminds me of how in the second season of Hannibal the Verger siblings were added to the cast. Fuller decided that Margot’s description in the book (a roided out butch lesbian bodybuilder) seemed problematic, so instead he cast a thin femme brunette (just like so many other women on the show). I thought it was a…

The real takeaway here is that House of Usher is a short story, and if not for Netflix pushing Flanagan to warp adaptations into multi-episode series, there wouldn’t be all that much material to re-record.

Has Spielberg ever made a movie as bad as that?

I think making Batman in live-action is going to limit what villains fit in there. Although the 60s TV series could get away with more outlandish ones.

arguably the biggest real problem

The protagonist just getting hit by the camera/”evil” at the end does seem like a copy of the original... although the gore afterward would show how CGI has advanced. I prefer the remake to the original even though I can’t stand how the Haunting of Hill House reversed the ending of its source material due to its…

Mara is also the name of the POV character in “Fourteen”, a film about the fading away of her long friendship with another woman (although they were girls rather than women when it began). Could just be a coincidence though.

Terror Firmer was godawful and really had some nerve crapping on Spielberg.

I don’t know if that’s actually the way to become the most beloved person on Earth. How beloved did Norman Borlaug become?

Magical elimination of feces is more of a Harry Potter thing. Although I think there’s a New Mutant whose superpower is that his intestines are living beings that can leave his body and eat anything.

You quoted the New Yorker about how her character does add to the film. I disagree with that, regardless of whether she’s a “white savior”. The principle of parsimony would suggest removing a character who does not add artistic value.

The one good aspect of New Mutants was Anya Taylor-Joy’s Magik being an asshole to everyone.

I think there are principles of artistic parsimony, which is what gives rise to Chekov’s gun.

I said beforehand that Best Editing was much more important than any of the Best Short awards. But Linklater’s approach would just lead to even lower ratings and less relevance. People will watch live TV for live musical performances, which works for awards focused on music, but that’s not the Oscars. Lifetime…

much less actively confirm

Those points you make about Isle of Dogs are right, but Greta Gerwig’s character was rather shoehorned in there, and since it wasn’t a true story (unlike this), there was no need to include her.