I prefer the 2019 version, to a significant degree because the zombie kid is better in that one, but Fred Gwynne was much better at his role than Lithgow.

It’s not pre-existing.

You’ve now made me nostalgic for that gimmick commenter.

Hotels are not I.P. A specific hotel chain may have a brand, but the White Lotus chain specifically was made up by Mike White for the show.

You know what’s great about Flanagan’s adaptations of Gerald’s Game & Doctor Sleep? They’re movies rather than miniseries.

As long as I don’t actually have to watch his movies...

so they wouldn’t have to count it as an asset they’d have to pay taxes on

Not extending a loan is very different from running someone over with your car.

In the context of the full sentence you’re quoting that from, I was comparing Handmaid’s Tale to The Dispossessed. I suppose it’s possible The Dispossessed has its analogue to 1984 making it comparatively less original than HT, and I’m just unaware of it.

Handmaid’s Tale isn’t any attempt at prescience about the future. It’s combining things from the past, like the (then-recent) Iranian revolution, Soviet purges, slavery, polygamy, and deliberately leaving out any of the advanced technology expected from scifi. I reviewed it here:

Sam Raimi did this later with “Drag Me to Hell”, although with a more sympathetic protagonist.

I didn’t know it was rated R (and there’s no entry for it at filmratings.com). I guess if he’s going that route there would be no reason for Oppie to just talk to Jean Tatlock in their last meeting.

I would bet you that their careers continue regardless of what Miller does.

Freddie deBoer in The Gentrification of Disability talked about how the representatives of “neurodiversity” are in a very different boat from non-verbal autistics. The trouble is that the latter can’t really speak on their own behalf.

I was surprised Barbarian wasn’t getting a DVD release on Redbox, so I watched it VOD a few weeks ago. Pretty good, but because it had taken me so long to get to it I was somewhat spoiled as to certain plot turns.

I don’t see any mention of Russian Ark or Sebastian Schipper’s Victoria.

My problem with the film is that Cuaron has a setting completely at odds with the premise he borrowed from the book (which he apparently didn’t read). It didn’t make sense to me when I watched it, and then when I read about the book that seemed more logical.

You neglected to specify the director of this spinoff: Jeremy Slater. He created the recent Moon Knight TV series, and the TV adaptation of The Exorcist before that. He hasn’t directed any movies before, but his writing credits on films include the more poorly received Death Note and (Josh Trank’s) Fantastic Four.

Beckinsale’s Instagram post is here:

He’s neither picked my pocket nor broken my leg, and best of all I’ve managed to avoid listening to his actual music.