Has a reboot or remake of something where the original had an iconic, beloved score but the new one has all-new music ever worked? Thinking about The Rings of Power not having Howard Shore's LotR score. Feels like that's gonna be a problem (among many) for Harry Potter

It's helpful that the Harry Potter franchise is doing what Kanye West did, in the sense that they stopped making any new art that was in any way good right about the same time that the artist became impossible to support.

Phone less convenient in every way and furthermore it is for babies. You always see babies poking away at phones and tablets. A baby is never on the computer

It's finally here! www.vulture.com/article/best...

This Oscars telecast is going, uh, well

I used to use Grammarly for proofreading all the time. Then they started adding AI suggestions that were worse than what I'd intentionally written and they were frequently incorrect to boot. I deleted the plug-in. Seems like they've gotten even worse!

A difference between the Academy and me is that when I was writing up my own theoretical 2026 Oscar nominations just for fun, I nominated '28 Years Later' a dozen times

Having “a normal one”

This @defector.com story is a good (non-political) example of why it’s not enough to have a bunch of individual reporters with newsletters running around. You need some kind of institution with the resources (and principles) to publish despite legal threats. defector.com/a-complimentar…

One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. They’ll buy Warner Brothers with $24 billion from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert, blocked a 60 Minutes CECOT investigation, and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.

haven't noticed this before on Letterboxd. Makes sense I guess!

I wish Canada had won (the war of 1812)

Had a lovely conversation with Egg, a great kid. Read it on @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/dext...

Anyway, I don't know why the Bluesky folks are so mad all the time. There was just a viral post (on this site!) about how the number of newspaper jobs has dropped from 360,000 in 2007 to about 80,000 today. You guys are winning!

It's wild how much Bluesky fundamentally hates journalism. Like, yes journalism right now has plenty of issues. (Ask any journalist about it! We love to bitch about journalism!) But on here the entire premise of "reporting" is reviled by people who think they're doing 'Spotlight' whenever they post.

Please believe me when I say I went into the idea of an English-language, English-set remake of the iconic Japanese folk horror movie ‘Onibaba’ with an open heart. Alas! My review of ‘The Dreadful’ for @avclub.com www.avclub.com/the-dreadful...

it’s okay if you order food every night and think you’re saving money because you don’t know how to cook. I just think you’re a little stupid, is all 💙

real ones know how much The Quick and the Dead slaps www.vulture.com/article/best...

Keep Honking! I'm Liking Sinners And One Battle After Another The Exact Right Amount

Anyway, F1 is a much better movie than Frankenstein

Confused about ‘F1’ getting a Best Picture nomination? Some of the first films ever made included watching a horse go vroom and a train go vroom. It’s only right that the Academy should honor a movie about watching a car go vroom.

“Soda Pop” robbed

Another year, another round of layoffs at Vox Media. In solidarity with our laid-off colleagues, here is our full statement:

Grok put the whale in a bikini

[pointing at screen] that's the voice of Bluey and Bingo’s aunt

Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

Avatar: Fire and Ash was shockingly horny! Good!! www.avclub.com/avatar-fire-...

That was a very upsetting and revealing by 60 Minutes segment that I wouldn’t have watched had it just aired normally on 60 Minutes. Great job, Bari Weiss

Golden Globes to Dailymotion

Maybe one day there will be a CGI deer in a movie that looks good. Today is not that day : (

it's fucked up that Netflix owns Yakko, Wakko and Dot's house now

Across historical fiction, gender-swapped anime, and the confines of Grand Theft Auto, Hamlet allowed the year's films to process their grief. www.avclub.com/art-therapy-...

Toured Titmouse’s animation studios and talked Critical Role for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

The play’s the thing… when it comes to 2025 movies. For @avclub.com I wrote about how Hamnet, Grand Theft Hamlet, and Scarlet all riff on Hamlet in very unique ways to tell similar stories about grief and art. www.avclub.com/art-therapy-...

Andrew Cuomo seen jumping from the Tappan Zee Bridge

Profiled Dave Franco for Bustle www.bustle.com/entertainmen...

baseball!!!!

A few innings ago — so, like, the 15th inning — they showed a guy holding a big ol' can of Modelo. They stop selling beer in the 7th inning, right? So you gotta wonder how warm that brew was

Instead of watching "video podcasts," people should subscribe to the Criterion Channel.

As I said goodbye to my toddler to head to the Vista for a 10am showing of One Battle After Another, her nanny stopped me to show me a cool meme she found dragging me for fucking filth.

Bonsai trees are such a beautiful art form. And, also, I see them and think “man some little Warhammer figurines would look sick here”

The Mandalorian and Grogu trailer looks like a TV show, which is a loaded compliment about the state of TV and a massive indictment of the state of movies

"I miss monoculture" [monkey's paw curls and we have state media] "wait no not like this!"

There’s a scene in V for Vendetta where the fascist regime retaliates over a late night comedy skit.

I’m spiraling

Fantastic winners start-to-finish; that was also the worst awards show I've watched in my life

The winners are good but aside from that this is maybe the worst awards show I have ever seen

this donation counter bit at the Emmys is POISON

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Ranked the 20 best Stephen King adaptations for TIME, and of course I used the opportunity to once again speak the truth that the ending of The Mist is trash. (Unfortunate because the rest of the movie is really good!) time.com/7315750/best...