I was confused that you were referring to the codec DivX, until I looked it up and realized that there was also a “rental” concept sold by Circuit City that was also called DIVX. They sold proprietary (never a good start) disc players that played proprietary (uh oh) rental discs, and authorized purchases through a phon…

If we think more broadly about bio-pics, and which ones worked well, a highlight that comes to mind is Will Smith as Ali. And I don’t think anyone could have foreseen Will Smith’s big personality (especially circa 2001) vanishing into any role. Then he got nominated for a best actor Oscar. It was a combination of good…

Was Blade a kung fu badass in Blade because that’s what he is in the comics, or because Snipes was playing him?

That would be consistent with the series finale, but it seems like they tried to make him look young again and it... isn’t convincing. I can look past it, as I’m happy just to see the character again.

It’s hard to go anywhere but down when you start out with a central role in a blockbuster that wound up being one the best of its decade.

The language barrier is a problem, but the context may be that the people who had fireworks shot at them were in on it, and this narrative of an elaborate gadget being constructed on the fly to break up a street party is a fiction.

Ozark has a hooky serialized formula that does a perfectly fine job capturing your attention. But it drags in spots, is mostly predictable (the baddies are over-the-top bad), and isn’t especially memorable. I wouldn’t put it much above a dozen other Netflix original series. It’s very much on par with something like Alt…

The number of Ozark nominations is nutty, and can only really be explained by Netflix investing more money/effort than anyone else into “for your consideration” (ffs, House of Cards is still getting noms). I’d say Laura Linney stood out as deserving, but the show itself is B-grade prestige drama, not much better than…

“KFC, genius innovators that they are, had a bananas idea: to combine chicken in their sandwiches with a crunchy starch. You’d have never guessed it, but they go well together!”

Well, it *might* have been a “popcorn dropping moment”, had I not just read about it.

Conan is a workaholic. He’s not trying to wind down. He’s just re calibrated the show to focus more on the aspects of late night that he enjoys the most, is the best at, and which coincidentally are the easiest to monetize in the replay market of social media and You Tube. That is, more field segments, and a loose…

Probably the initials of the specific person / customer service rep / social media intern who was writing the tweet. I’ve seen that convention used on other shared accounts.

You can see that like 6 other people have already responded to tell me this, right.

A.A. Dowd raves, “The Perfect Remake Recipe” 

This video is awful by every metric. But I guess Friends is click-baity.

I agree it dragged on a bit more than seemed totally necessary, but if nothing else, the pay off of Dustin’s friends taunting him with the song in the flash forward (when they were packing up) made it worth the walk.

So, “distinctive” is the adjective we’re going to go with for Eisenberg’s portrayal of Lex Luther in BvS.

It’s been a while since I watched season 1, but didn’t he start out extremely awful? His arc was one of redemption/growth, but I think his more awful tendencies early this season were reversion to the mean. 

I suppose Game of Thrones is a pretty topical example of a sci-fi/fantasy epic in which characters who are seemingly dead might come back through the power of magic / plot contrivance, but don’t confuse people “dying off screen” with shoddy writing that failed to close the loop on a whole bunch of plot threads.

I do suspect that Hellboy looms in how the cliffhanger was constructed. The original cast was pieced together from spare parts, before anyone had a clue that the show was going to be a hit, and so most of these actors are pretty easy to lock down. Meanwhile, while this was being scripted/shot, Harbour was the star…