Good luck playing Netflix on it though!

Actually an Xbox 360 would totally work. It had wide output capabilities (HDMI/component/RCA), and I suspect it is still supported by Microsoft/Netflix with updates despite being insanely old (by tech standards). A TV from that era would probably have an RCA input, but if not it…

I remember the first TV I watched that had the “smooth” motion turned on, and it immediately bothered me that it looked just wrong. It had like a Benny Hill, fast-forwarded quality, which looked unnatural. The cinematic frame rate is about 24fps, and that creates a sort of flip-book effect with fast motion that — if…

I find this theory neither weird nor convincing. It’s not weird because the movie is totally transparent that they had to fill gaps (and as I recall Jurassic World explicitly asserts that the dinos were modified to look like we expected). It’s not convincing because nothing in Spielberg’s directorial history suggests…

The obvious labelling of the chlorine gas tanks actually makes sense, as the whole point of it is to spook customs inspectors from inspecting its contents. It makes less sense that they went through all that trouble to empty the cannisters and left one behind. It’s also weird that the kid is directly involved in…

Aren’t those the rap lyrics that Eddie Murphy sings in Beverly Hills Cop to some hapless guard that he corners at gun point?

I will get around to watching it over the long weekend. I have a hard time getting excited to watch two-hour long emotionally-affecting dramas. I actually rented Moonlight on digital several months ago, but let the rental expire without watching it. If I want to be entertained, I usually prefer something that’s a bit…

Lauer is passionate about his job, which I respect. It’s just a brutal business. To make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, you have to do whatever it takes, ruin as many people’s lives, no matter how many friends you lose or people you leave dead and bloodied along the way, just so long so you can…

And, importantly, a reasonably attractive talking head. In the Anchorman school of conventional network news, a key function of women is to be easy on the eyes. Us men watching daytime TV can’t [just] jerk off to Judge Judy.

Star Wars mostly sticks to the “white-good / black-bad” color convention (it’s baked right into the concept of the “dark side”). There are some exceptions, but I think they’re usually deliberate. Luke wore dark colours in Ep. 6, but he wasn’t pure goodness in that movie - he was at the height of his powers and was…

I think it means he’s going to get a songwriting credit on most of the new original work, because it won’t be drastically different. It will therefore look like he’s involved, even though he’s really not.

This reminds me of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where producers originally planned to just recycle the same green-screen shots of the ship (which were complicated and very expensive at the time) over and over again — but then ended up bringing the ship models in-house and shooting new shots for almost every…

I was really impressed with him in Luke Cage. I actually haven’t gotten around to watching Moonlight, so Cage is my main exposure to him (that, and the story mode in Madden 18, which is much more compelling than you’d expect it to be, but doesn’t feature him prominently).

Luke lived above the restaurant, as I recall,…

I made this comment back on one of the season 2 episodes, but when you think about it the dialog for season 1 was also terrible. Matthew Mcconaughey just did an exceptional job selling it. It could have been just as cringeworthy as Vince Vaughn’s monologs in season 2, in different hands.

Episode 8 of The Defenders also has a really good long-shot fight scene. Which was refreshing, because episode 7 was a total fucking disaster of rapid, incoherent cuts.

I saw this as a headline on an office building elevator a few weeks ago (it’s where I get a lot of my news - they have a little tv screen for people to look at, so they don’t have to talk to each other). My immediate reaction was that it was poorly worded.

The risk of death is 100%, and if that changed, it’d be a BFD.…

I heard a radio station yesterday that was playing it once per hour (they explicitly announced), but the hosts of the show were shiting on it after every play through.

Yeah, this sounds more like a deliberate policy designed to minimize the resultant damage if an email server is hijacked by a spammer. Most email server software imposes a cap, by default.

I think the song writing credit is just to pre-empt a copyright claim, and avoid a repeat of the thing with big hat guy and the drug-addled wife abuser (im not good with names). The chorus is similar to “too sexy”, beat wise.

I see you could insert an image. Please, somebody reassure me that you we can’t post animated GIFs. If the AV Club comments turn into the IGN comments, or the replies to every celebrity Twitter post, I’m going to be heart broken. It’s so tacky.

EDIT: Oh no.

Shade at O’Neal? Let me at ‘em! I’ll give ‘em a left, and a right! [That was me, channeling the ever-popular, unanimously beloved, Scrappy Doo]

But seriously, as long as O’Neal and Teti are contributing to the A.V. Club, I’ll ride out the storm on any technical stuff. A.A. and Iggy have really grown on me on the film…