Still need to watch season 2!

Bob Mortimer on WOULD I LIE TO YOU?

"WE DO BEG YOUR PARDON, BUT WE ARE IN YOUR GARDEN."

Laughing and crying for five minutes straight.

Liu Yaxi in THE FORBIDDEN CITY

Liu Yaxi in THE FORBIDDEN CITY

Oh yeah, THE FORBIDDEN CITY is a legit great time. A simple revenge tale infused with character, thematic intent, and gorgeous visuals. The fight scenes rock, but the rest of it is every bit as engaging. My only complaint is that I haven't seen more leading roles for Liu Yaxi announced yet!

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#NowWatching From the director of the awesome FREAKS OUT!

Don't really get pissed at movies, but... these two.

One has the nerve to end with "it was all a dream," and the other is just a shit show wrap-up to an already weak trilogy.

Love this film and its soundtrack. Used to be irked with his major ending change (as I love the book, too), but I've come to terms with it now and see its effectiveness from a different angle.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Hmm. Not a single character turns a light on (after the title screen), so I'd argue the opposite.

I haven't worked on my birthday for the last thirty years.

CRIPPLED AVENGERS poster

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Amending this because I temporarily and inexcusably forgot about THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, which is arguably both the best Moore Bond and my favorite. Forgive me.

Right?! I have to be stopped.

Three things i bought when I only needed one.

I am seemingly incapable of purchasing a single item at a time. In a store, online, I will not check out until I have at least two things in my cart.

It's how I walk into Walmart for a white t-shirt for kiddo to tie-dye at school, and walk out with Ghost Pepper cheddar cheese and Triscuits.

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to my friend, @donatobomb.bsky.social! You should all be so lucky as to know this goofball.

Oh, that's entirely possible. Still don't like seeing it!

Disney Fires The Entire Team Managing Its DVD & Blu-ray Sales Raising Questions About The Future of Physical Media From Disney | Cord Cutters News Disney has eliminated its entire home entertainment division in a sweeping round of layoffs that has sent ripples through the entertainment industry and intensified concerns over the long-term viabili...

Dislike. cordcuttersnews.com/disney-fires...

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Maybe not the best Roger Moore Bond movie, but LIVE AND LET DIE is still my favorite Roger Moore Bond movie.

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#NowReWatching

Compared to that kid!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

AOC: “The mistake that I made, you know, from all the movies that we see growing up about heroes & villains — is that I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses — I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre, & just dumb the architects would be”

Og or remake? Better be the fucking remake.

Saw someone pick HALLOWEEN KILLS as their favorite film from the year they turned 18... and I don't know if I'm more put off by the movie pick or by the reminder that my old ass is super fucking old.

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#NowReWatching Underseen and under-appreciated thriller from 1984...

HIGH RISK poster

#NowReWatching

Nope!

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CLUB DREAD poster

Honestly don't recall if I've seen this one before, but regardless, Bill Paxton and a couple jokes aside... it's a miss for me.

AVP: REQUIEM (director's cut) -- still love it! The two greatest creature designs in film history. Kids and pregnant woman bursting open. Fun fights between alien species. RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD ending. Love it all!

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#NowReWatching one of the best sequels in the ALIEN and PREDATOR franchises...