I liked how the movie updated the anti-British aspect of the Ned Kelly myth by making Hugo Weaving's character an Anglophile corporate bastard with a pommy accent, who gets what's coming to him when Serious cuts out the Union Jack in his Australian flag and replaces it with a kangaroo. (He's since proposed a similar…

The Joker's mustache is only in the Ultimate Edition.

There's a brief shot of him at the 18-second mark and it sure doesn't look like it. Maybe they only animated it for closeups.

Depends on what countries you're talking about. For example, South Korea and Japan are two of the biggest markets on earth and studios long ago stopped releasing his movies there on a consistent basis (Pixels is his only live-action release in South Korea this decade so far). The fact that Pixels did very well in…

If that's the case then it just goes from a lie to grossly misleading—we're obviously supposed to conclude from his statement that these movies have universal appeal and are specially justified on those grounds. It'd be like claiming Yan Ni is globally popular because there are Chinese expats everywhere and a lot of…

The two Adam Sandler movies premiered at No. 1 in every single territory of Netflix around the world.

Scorsese too. He also had two other films from Cannes '96 on the list (Fargo and Crash).

Choosing the best Hou Hsiao-hsien film is an almost impossible task, but I keep coming back to Goodbye South, Goodbye, maybe because it so perfectly captures the feeling of metaphorically hitting your head against a brick wall and the elation of those rare moments where it doesn't seem to matter. It also has one of my…

Re: The camera has "always been a part of gameplay"—one thing that always infuriated me in an older side-scrolling platformer is when the screen wouldn't scroll sufficiently fast to keep up with the player character, you ended up too close to the side of the screen, and then BAM you're dead from some obstacle that…

The "playful, madcap stuff" is far more lasting for me personally than his occasional feints in more "serious" directions, like Winter in the Belly of a Snake or My Downfall. I still have a lot of tracks in my rotation from Chocolate Wheelchair, Higgins Ultra Low Track etc., Infolepsy EP, and Detrimentalist. Then…

They've been crediting him alongside Kane for about a year now. He will never, ever be credited as sole creator, for the reason Hamblerger mentioned.

Harvey Birdman is a better litigator than Harvey Specter.

Damn, these reboots are getting looser and looser. This sounds nothing like the Mind's Eye movies of my childhood.

For Oscar eligibility it has to get a run in Los Angeles County (which it is, at the iPic Westwood). For some reason only Documentary Features are also required to play in New York. I'm guessing Netflix was required to do at least an NY/LA release as part of the pickup.

Criterion has released some duds, but asking $40 MSRP for C.H.U.D. II is really a new level of brazenness.

So this goes to series while MTV and every other network are still rejecting my pilot pitch for King of the Fed, about a wacky stoner who becomes Chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and accuses Lael Brainard of stealing his Bugles. I am willing to change it to Queen of the Fed if that helps.

The only Batsuit worth having is Adam West's, hubba hubba.

Well, Lithuania has its thrashers
And they sure know how to slam
And Southern Florida has got hardcore
And so has Vietnam
If you think this is anarchy
Then it probably won't bother you
That the bands in Outer Mongolia
Sound like the bands in Timbuktu

Bear in mind that in China having a foreign actor in a movie is considered "prestigious" enough (even when it's an actor nobody has heard of) that foreigners are listed in the credits alongside their country of origin, to highlight the fact that "HEY WE GOT A FOREIGNER IN OUR MOVIE!" If you can afford a genuine…

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