I think Moonraker gets a bad rap among Bond fans and critics in general. It’s plot is no more ridiculous and under-cooked as the ones in “You Only Live Twice” or “The Spy Who Loved Me”. The space effects are decent for their time

The Black Hole still has some Disney silliness embedded in it’s core, especially the “cute” robots, but it’s got the best production and space ship design seen this side of “Alien”.  In fact it’s production design seems to be more inspired by Ridley Scott than Lucas.  Not a great movie, but much better than it was…

Imagine a world with Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus as a literary work. Without Shelley’s help and encouragement it’s doubtful that the novel would exist.

You can press a civil tort case regarding emotional distress, but a criminal case would have to involve making direct threats.

Absolutely true, also any “panic” had nothing to do with aliens but anxiety over the Munich Crisis where Nazi Germany had absorbed Czechoslovakia barely a month before. Most were concerned that the “invaders” were Germans, especially with the gas attack portrayed in the broadcast and the living memory of the horrors…

Spartacus was much more than the T&A/Violence porn it gets lumped into. It also had some great writing/characterization and one of he best series closing episodes in the Peak TV era. This show was everything GOT aspired to be.

Agreed, “The Djarling Limited” was a big disappointment for me after the previous films and “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” seemed like an afterthought at the time.  But then MK, TGBH and IOD were so all so reliably good and unique that having a new Wes Anderson film should be a highlight of 2020.

Well, I suppose someone had to do something with that cat rendering technology that was developed for Tom Hooper.

Anderson, he seems to taken up the quirky, hip, oddball slot that the disgraced Woody Allen held for decades.

That was already done in the late 90's, although it was originally broadcast on PBS and that production somewhat highlighted the problems of distancing Cats from it’s live stage performance origins.

Have to say my reaction to the “jump” was the exact opposite of the criticism I’ve been seeing of it. The fact that it came out of nowhere in what’s so far been a decidedly well done and by the book police procedural made it all the more terrifying, announcing that all bets are off and the center does not hold.

The on-line tribute slide-show had over 150 names, including the ones that were listed as a group in the last couple of pages.  With an average of 5 seconds per tribute that would push the segment to well over 10 minutes.  

The Academy Rules are that a film has to be publicly shown at a theater in either New York or Los Angles prior to December 31st to qualify for that calendar year. That’s why you see so many limited release films during the holiday season that don’t get a wide release until January, like 1917.

The Outer Worlds is a genuinely funny game and a great satire of both the intended and unintended results of unfettered Capitalism. 

Really? I think you need to re-watch DS9

No doubt, Macmillan’s over the top characterization works well in Lynch’s version.  In fact, he’s probably one of the most “Lynchian” parts of the movie.

The baron of the novel and the one shown in Lynch’s film are two different beasts altogether. I can see Skarsgard portraying the far more subtle characterization of the novel.

I AM the Shadeout Mapes.......THE BARRISTA

I’d say a man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest....

So.....my choices for the motivations of the Trek producers and the director in casting the small, but showy, role of the alien boyfriend would be to either provide an opportunity for a young actor of color, with few credits, to get some high-profile exposure.....or......was done merely to promote the archaic trope of…