I saw a commercial for this movie, and was struck by Emelia Clarke’s spark and charisma in the few short clips I saw. It was not what I expected from her based on the relatively flat and mopey performances I’d seen from her in GoT (in which I thought she was very good, but a bit one-note) and Genisys (in which I…

When a guy walks on a sidewalk, they ordinarily expect oncoming traffic to move out of their way, with the confidence of a lunatic in an old Mustang playing a game of chicken.

I think it’s as simple as what she said, which is that she didn’t like the implication she was “lured” by money to Netflix, like a cartoon character snorting wavy smell lines into the direction of a freshly baked pie. She didn’t go to Netflix because she was chasing money, Netflix offered her money because it was…

The thing about these kinds of actors is that they perform their parts so convincingly that they don’t really establish their own personality as real-life people. That makes it harder to readily single them out - we remember that the shows they were in fantastic, but we can’t easily connect the dots that the same…

I think it works as a play on “I am the one who knocks”, which is a bit ironic given that the lead comment on this thread argues Vince Gilligan should have gotten the MVP that she received.

The concept of this piece is to name a singular MVP, and there’s a high degree of subjectivity with pretty much all the picks. Vince Gilligan had one tremendously good TV show and its spin-off, but I think it’s easily defensible to put the far-more-prolific Shonda Rhimes ahead of him. Michael Schur, on the other hand,…

Hobbs & Shaw had the least car action of any Fast & Furious movie. And what little car action there was was a car chasing a helicopter. John Wick had waaaaaay better car action.

I could totally see Regina King getting a nomination. She’s really impressed me and showed a lot of range. Jean Smart has one good ep. under her belt of mostly being deadpan, I’d want to see more. Don Johnson fucking forget about it. He was well-cast for his role and played it capably. 

He has a new, more casual look in the reworked version of his TBS show. He doesn’t wear full suits anymore. He wears a dress shirt and tie with a collared jacket. I think it’s a totally fine look, and can sympathize with being tired of wearing suits. Though this particular jacket has far too many pockets. If you watch…

It was an absolute delight, but I don’t think it could work anymore. He was a parody of a FOX News personality, and now FOX News personalities are so absurd in real life that they there’s no room left to parody them. It’d just be a depressing reminder that some people devoutly believe this insane bullshit. The Daily…

Ohhh, you’re talking about the original GoT pilot. I thought you were talking about the prequel pilot. Don’t mind me.

I’ve seen pictures of Colin Farrell with that hilariously bad haircut (as part of a meme or something), but I don’t think I was even exposed to a commercial or trailer for that movie. Ever. When I saw the name of the movie in Goldsman IMDB I confused it with A Night’s Tale (though in retrospect the movies were…

I’d guess it’s probably placeholders for most of the CG effects, and who knows how much work they did on the original score. Never mind polish on stuff like color grading and sound mixing.

You seem very keen to disagree, but haven’t said anything inconsistent with my comment.

I’m not sure that anyone (Netflix, Disney or B&W) was looking back on the earlier decision especially fondly.

The stink of Batman & Robin will follow Goldsman everywhere he goes, and he has some other awful credits (more recently The Dark Tower, less recently Lost in Space), but not everything he’s done has been bad. I think some of his best work has come in hard sci-fi, with Fringe and Discovery. I also liked I, Robot, even…

That’s a post-Solo regret more than a post-Rise of Sky Walker realization. As I recall, LucasFilm was somewhat honest after Solo flopped that it had packed its schedule too tight with the A Star Wars Story spin-offs, and word spread that they had shelved development of any further spin-offs (including the Obi Wan…

I’m aware of Aguilera’s claim the song is about “self respect”, but that’s fucking delusional.

Christina Aguilera, “Genie in a Bottle”.

I saw Disco Elysium (PC, just released) get a couple of really good reviews, and I took a flyer on it. An isometric RPG, with classic a very classic D&D-style story with chance rolls. I’m only a few hours deep into the game, but the story (a murder mystery), is really interesting and the depth of world building and…