I was planning to note that I kind of admired WONDER WOMAN 1984 for threading the needle between a screen President who was somehow not Ronald Reagan and also not NOT Ronald Reagan. But then it occurred to me that I really wanted them to have “ROGUE ONE’d” E.G. Marshall in there, and now I won’t be satisfied with…

Agreed. And honestly, whatever the shortcomings of Deepfake Luke, he still took me out of the show less than the lousy performance by the recast Bib Fortuna. He sounded nothing like the character in JEDI. . .

I’m sure the exact details of how it was shot will be revealed shortly, but I would guess this was more “deepfake a stand-in to look like the original actor” (a la ROGUE ONE) versus shooting with the original actor and de-aging them in post (ANT-MAN/CIVIL WAR/CAPTAIN MARVEL).

I liked the prison break episode overall, but MAN was that a waste of Clancy Brown. . . !

Oh, I loved Spidey’s appearance in INFINITY WAR, but that should be the exception, IMO. Keep it NYC-bound in the main series (hell, I didn’t love the European angle in FAR FROM HOME), but go nuts in the Avengers crossovers.

I’m still hoping-against-hope that Foxx and Molina are playing new versions of their characters and that this won’t be a cross-dimensional adventure. (a) because the wonderful INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE just went there and I don’t see how this can’t suffer in comparison, and (b) because Spider-Man generally and the Tom…

Yaya Abdul-Mateen has the acting chops and presence that he might be able to pull off a recast.

It’s simply untrue that “Belushi didn’t even make the effort to clean up.” He was clean for nearly a year between the making of THE BLUES BROTHERS and the months before his death. He and his wife hired an ex-cop to help him maintain sobriety, and he also made efforts to better his overall health with diet and…

I always come to these comments for insights from better-read Royal afficiandos, so here’s a question: was the tone Charles’s aide (chief of staff?) took with Diana a-historically antagonistic? He seemed termination-level surly and insubordinate to my eyes - were folks that married into the family given that much less…

Dumb question from a guy who hasn’t watched this series but have seen bits and pieces in passing:

I guess I was right to begin with - I checked Amazon to make sure when the book was published, and they listed a 2010 date (must have been for a later edition). Thanks for correcting me.

A WALK IN THE WOODS, if only from the trailer, seemed to me like it might have once been intended for Newman-Redford. But since the source novel didn’t come out until two years after Newman’s death, I guess that wasn’t the case.

She was terrific on LA LAW - I was sad when they phased her character out after only one season.

I thought it didn’t quite track either. Best I came up with was, since it was coming after Loy saying the Italians weren’t Rabbi’s people, Rabbi was replying sarcastically. (As in, “Oh, and I suppose YOU’RE my Mommy here to save me - when our skin tones don’t even match?”)

Not an article, but the book The Making of Citizen Kane by Robert L. Carringer covers it pretty evenhandedly.

Very good, but I’ll still give the edge to Sorkin’s fanfic:

Agreed as far as AMAZING 2 - that’s still the best live-action Spidey-suit, IMO.

I found the movie messy but watchable. But the age issues in the casting were REALLY distracting. Bad enough the older actors were playing their younger selves in flashbacks (without even their gray hairs being touched up!), but then you saw a bunch of under-30s playing supposed children of Vietnam-era soldiers (Otis’…

I realize the official AV Club line is that Whedon is the devil and must be shunned by all right-thinking people, but you’re quite off-base this time, at least. Gunn and Whedon have been friends/friendly for decades. The character of Gunn on ANGEL was named for the director (and his brother), and Whedon was a big…