Part of the problem was it was a statement she should have rolled out sooner.

By the time she brought it out, the people it was meant to reach had already bailed anyway for various reasons of disgust with Trump.
And all that was left were the ones that looked at that list of *ists and went “Yeah, what of it?”

I hate to break it to you, but Dean Cain being an asshole predates MAGA.
Dude’s been making these kinds of films for a while now (case in point: God’s Not Dead.)

The crazy part is, this Trump Mars movie would somehow STILL find a way to be more jaw-droppingly homophobic than Boat Trip.

Well, the good news here is they wouldn’t even have to consider that far. Anyone who thinks a man of his age and health is going to survive the necessary G-force training is at best naive, at worst flat-out lying to themselves.

Dunno if this is deemed sufficiently old school or not, but recently been revisiting the old Star Trek: 25th Anniversary computer game.

Pleasantly surprised that it still plays well overall (some of the ship combat is still a little wonky, but the away team point and click adventures are still a lot of fun and do an…

Thoughts on the movie aside, this is a pretty shrewd move on the part of the marketing.
Either the movie winds up as controversial as the poster is advertising, or it underwhelms, and all those soundbites basically give people a list of names to look at and go “THIS is what you were all so afraid of?”

SOON.
The clock is ticking. Less than a decade until the screenings may begin.

On the literal level, yes.
But at the same time, the movie makes it pretty clear the ritual is part of an actual demonic pact the family got into to maintain its wealth and prosperity.

It’s sort of like Brian Yuzna’s Society or John Carpenter’s They Live - yes, there’s aliens/demons, but at the core of each, there’s the…

If it’s tough to figure out why, it’s likely that it tripped the MPAA’s ‘You PG-13s get one ‘fuck.’ As a treat. More than that, YOU TAKE THE R.’

Sad, but true.
Also, slightly ironic. For a series where one of the main building blocks was Kurosawa’s samurai films, its production backstory gets the old Rashomon treatment pretty regularly.

On the one hand - I get where the VFX community is coming from. Especially where the Oscars are concerned (remember the VFX company behind Life of Pi getting played off as they tried to explain how rough it was getting in that industry, only to get played off and then have their company go under within a year of said…

Right there with you on Bilbo.
When I look back at the things that I would say were kind of my ‘nerd foundation’ (for lack of a better term for it) those two Tolkien movies were one of the biggies (I’ll admit as I’ve gotten older that RotK is...honestly a mess of a movie now, albeit with some great casting at parts,…

A-bloody-men.

Several years later, I still find it odd that, out of all the songs in La La Land, they gave the award to probably one of the blandest offerings of that movie.
(I mean, I wasn’t a huge fan of the film in general, but it had better entries, even among the nominees.

...also, Sing Street got fucking hosed. I…

To this day, I wonder about what could have been had Halloween stuck to Carpenter’s initial idea of being an anthology series where each movie simply shared the through line of taking place on/around Halloween.

Unfortunately, the fact they made Halloween 2 a direct sequel basically made that impossible, as proven by…

I’d like to believe they may doctor it in for next year due to the late US release date, but then I remember how Your Name got similarly hosed.

As it stands, I see Best Animated Short shaking out one of three ways.
Kitbull and Hair Love are the two main front runners, naturally. But in the event they manage to vote-split, I could see Memorable having a fighting chance (bittersweet as Hell, but also visually impressive for what it’s doing.)

Personally, would be…

To be fair, Best Original Song is prettymuch THE category for “...why did you not nominate/award *?”

Like, more than any other category, their track record for missed calls at both the nomination and award level is striking.

This is...honestly why I’m not sure I can ever bring myself to watch the movie now.

For a while I was finally starting to get out of the headspace of viewing it as the film that fucked over Saving Private Ryan and take it on its own terms.

Then the Weinstein allegations kicked into high gear.
Now there’s a part of me…

Not QUITE that simple.
Though there are certainly films in the Oscar’s past that feel like they thought it was (cue the famous discussion from Tropic Thunder about just how far to take your mentally handicapped performance here.)

I know they’re working on it for film, but I honestly feel like Ex Machina is a story that would be better served by a television format.

Also, I keep going back and forth on The Wicked + The Divine. It’s got a lot of potential, but I can’t help but see the ways it could go incredibly awry and so I stop myself from…