Can it be somewhere between “most overrated” and “best film ever!!”?  Getting hung up on these critical binaries is not helpful.  

As if we needed further evidence that the Oscars are some twisted form of cultural punishment, The A.V. Club has learned the donkey joined by Jimmy Kimmel is, in fact, not the real Jenny, but rather “some random donkey,” per Vulture

If the adaptation is transformative in some way, I don’t really have a problem with it. And maybe one could consider this new live-action Little Mermaid based on the diverse casting, though the trailer is giving me strong “tribute band playing the hits” vibe.  

Next round’s on Ninja Robot Pirate!

Is The Whale worth seeing? I’m on board with the Brennaisance, but everytime I see clips, it just feels like the Oscar-bait version of the already great work Fraser has been doing on Doom Patrol.

Well, she *is* a co-producer, so I guess she played herself?!?

A nitpick: they had Frances McDormand and gave her so little screen time.

Please end that damn audience questions bit.  Those kind of “audience business” bits rarely work, but that one was especially dire.

I sure hope not.  Let it die with the current generation.

I kinda suspected as much, too.  Couldn’t they just re-release the original animated one with current-gen HD polish and accomplish the same thing?

It happens from time to time, especially when Disney owns the network.

I have yet to see the point of any of the Disney live-action films.

Honestly, it’s been a pretty good year for film. Outside a few personal gripes (I didn’t really care for Elvis), there are a lot of categories where I would be fine with any result.  

Thank you for the very thorough reply!  

After reading Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock, I’m starting to come around to the idea that that might be the best chance we have, which is kinda depressing. That is more or less what happens in the novel: a billionaire starts a project to shoot a bunch of sulfur into the stratophere (in order to create a barrier…

The Resident Evil 4 Remake demo just dropped, so I’m probably going to play that quite a bit. RE7 and RE8 breathed fresh life into the series (and were outstanding entries in their own right), but even after all these years, RE4 is still the reigning king of the franchise, but some of the movement controls are a…

Well, won’t you be surprised when they release the chibi expansion!  

Thanks for the tip!

2. It’s a little creepier than I like.

3 is pretty easy.  All those dead giants probably left a lot of giant skeletons to reanimate.  Why they shoot death-beams out of their mouth is beyond me, though.