Sorta frustrating how Sega continually repackages the same small chunk of their Genesis library over and over again—literally all the games mentioned here were included in the "Sega Smash Packs" released for the PC and Dreamcast in the late '90s/early 2000s and have since been released on too many platforms to count……

It's amazing to me that they want to make one of these goddamn things each and every year now and yet still have them all fit within the narrow tonal range of a trilogy that is older than most of the audience.

A little-known Easter egg in Batman v Superman is that Ezra Miller is actually in the background of every shot, along with Wonder Woman's Invisible Jet.

The fact that their replacement on The Flash dropped out as well (plus the film's generally nightmarish pre-production history) seems a pretty strong indicator that its issues aren't the directors' doing.

I honestly suspect it was because Paul Thomas Anderson shot The Master in 70mm (with backing from the Weinsteins) and Tarantino was like "Well shit, why didn't I think of that," then decided to do it in Ultra Panavision 70 to one-up him.

I'm pretty sure that is the whole point. I know Tarantino didn't conceive of it as a two-part film, but the first part feels like more or less exactly what you might expect from Tarantino doing an homage to Asian genre cinema and the second part seemingly goes out of its way to subvert whatever expectations have been…

It's sort of moot since I was wrong (the Atari 2600 version does have randomized fruits), but: no, the ghosts in Ms. Pac-Man don't follow predictable patterns, which was really the single most significant change from the original. Another random element, at least in the arcade version, is where the final, impassable…

It's the 2600 version, as stated in the first sentence of the article. I'm guessing they used it because you can actually achieve a perfect score in the 2600 version, unlike the arcade version where the random fruit makes that effectively impossible.

Hell, the cutaway to Buenos Aires seems to be a callback to the deleted scenes from FWWM (featuring Jeffries in some unspecified Spanish-speaking locale, identified as Buenos Aires in the script and the Secret History). I'm guessing the show itself will eventually get around to explaining the significance, but without…

Oh wow, didn't expect to see this show up here. I checked this out after reading a Michael Sicinski review of The Room that argued it sucked even as a Bad Movie and that this was a much more interesting example of incompetent filmmaking. I basically agree, while acknowledging that what makes After Last Season more…

It was shot on the Arri Arima (or at least that was the main camera). A strange choice since it's marketed as a documentary and TV news camera, but I can't say it isn't working out.

There was an incorrect report that he went back to the 35mm, but he came out with a clarification along the lines that there would be no point because it would go through so many different steps by the time it reached a TV screen.

In my ENTIRELY SUBJECTIVE opinion, Mr. Vengeance is the only Park film worth a damn (proviso: haven't seen Stoker or The Handmaiden, or that one from the '90s that got released on Blu-ray without English subtitles). The next two parts of the trilogy made it clear that what Park found interesting about the film had…

It's a step up from Jing Tian, at least.

It's a list of 25 movies that includes ten non-English, non-American films. Arguably there should be more (there definitely would be on mine, and the aggregators at They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? have sixteen on their equivalent list), but when you're talking about a list that includes Silent Light, Three Times, and …

I dunno, a few years ago some people tried to bring back Boogerman. That one didn't pan out though.

Because I like to be a killjoy: Winning an award at certain festivals gets you around the requirement of a seven-day theatrical run in Los Angeles County, but you still have to submit a copy to the Academy in one of the approved formats so that they can actually, y'know, watch it. Given that those approved formats are…

You know that the film buff in you has definitively overtaken the music buff in you when you read a post like this and try to figure out what a Chinese movie has to do with James Mangold and a French thriller.

Also Christian Clavier (who co-wrote the original) plays the squire in both.

My Father the Hero, made during that brief and bizarre period when Hollywood tried to make Gérard Depardieu a household name on these shores. I guess they kind of succeeded, but it was mainly as a punchline.