It certainly felt like a movie, stretched into a series so good to have that confirmed. Sometimes you can just tell

Cavill IMO carried this show, cos it was trashy but watchable despite being a bit of a mess; with Geralt’s attitude a big part of what held it together. Leaving aside as well the amount of sheer thirst for Cavill in the first place. I really have no faith the lesser Hemsworth can be that glue. I’d not be shocked at…

They write “mke a big empty speech, then cry at how awesome Burnham is”, then call it a day

How Did The Flash Get Michael Keaton Back in Bat-Action?

Knowing that Cruise genuinely did drive a motorbike off a cliff (multiple times!), it’s weird how the CGI airbrushing of the ramp & film bric-a-brac out of the scene has made it look more fake than it was. Not hugely, just a little. Same with the train crash; the little moment of the train hitting the water looks a…

1. The green screen looked like shit. Hard to infer if any of that scene had “real” physicality.

LolRelated and shared without comment. 5 years old but how I missed it I can’t say.

I cancelled by sub precisely because there's F All on Netflix and what there is, invariably gets axed. No point watching anything on a service that has no faith in its own methods or output. Even stuff people apparently _are_ watching gets nuked so why bother? I find AppleTV to be a real gem these days; smaller,…

A really good article that throws some light on something that, in retrospect, seems obvious. Link being such a notably androgynous character across many of their appearances, most distinctly in BOTW where as one testimony noted in the article, Link had hips and notable curves. No surprise then players might have…

He has become a good example of a director whose absence of constraint has had a net negative with regards his output. I dunno if a key collaborator has disappeared but the aesthetic has become all consuming.

Huh. Is that the first time a Wes Anderson movie has featured on io9, or even its Spoilers section? I'll be honest, the trailer really seemed like Anderson has kinda spun into borderline self parody.

This getting cancelled was a definitive example to me that Netflix was becoming a trash service with trash content. As the article says this was, and remains, one of the best Fantasy series in years - and perhaps the better Dark Crystal story, if I’m honest.

... regardless of how you feel about that film, you can’t deny the allure of Frik.

The idea Aardman is making anything Star Wars remains utterly surreal. I've seen the trailer and still refuse to believe it - though disappointing they didn't go full Wallace and Gromit style. Cowards.

The Thing 2011 was ignored cos it was rubbish. A limp retread of the original film, with less tension and more ropey CGI (forced by a studio that got cold feet over the predominant practical FX)

If ever a grouping needed to recreate the “are we the bad guys?” meme/sketch, it’s the modern Republican party. Don’t especially like Disney’s corporate manoeuvres over the last few decades, but DeSantis by accounts really does come across like a total piece of shít. Not even an especially clever or successful PoS,…

This was the first blockbuster in years that didn’t feel so Pre-Vid, set-piece led, rather instead starting with good characters and fashioning scenarios for them to interact within. If this fails at the box office, we truly don't deserve nice things.

I don’t, especially as I’m a smug non American. I’m mostly snorting at this outlet’s desperate attempt to fashion outrage over something, anything cos "nothing happened" at this Oscars. But by all means go instantly nuclear and personal over a passing remark at how shit like this is gutter journalism.

That is probably the real truth. Though conservatives seem more unified and organised to keep rolling back liberties and rights, while liberals tear each other apart over purity tests.

Wonder how much trawling of the internet it took to find somebody who didn’t like the fun dance number cos something something racism? Gotta generate that content and engagement somehow, even if it makes American Liberalism look utterly histrionic.