One kind of box office story that really does matter is you occasionally need an absurdly improbable payout in order to dupe investors into thinking they have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding in the movie business. In that sense OBSESSION is *very* important.

Matrix 2:

As Jabba the Hutt's son I'm often gatekept from progressive spaces due to preconceived notions about my family. At the same time, I acknowledge the reasonable concerns my presence would raise, and I'm working every day to unlearn the harmful attitudes instilled in me on my father's pleasure barge.

It's full of stars

Please don't write that I was wearing my "Immune to Nostalgia" t-shirt when the Game Boy Color-style Secret of NIMH / Rescue Rangers dark fantasy game misted my skull with a .50 cal sniper round thank you

I got ahead of myself here, the "fandom" complaints about the (not very good) finale are mostly dumb.

Grogu met with his supposed hero RFK in October '63 and confronted him over Joe Kennedy's mob ties so that he would understand ex post facto the motive for his brother's assassination.

Refn using AI will piss off lots of people but not everyone. As the world's most annoying man he has the chance here to reach 100% "oh come on now" saturation by lying that he HAS used AI when he really hasn't as part of an unclear statement on the nature of human creativity.

I predict they will implement and then undo this within 48 hours.

As Dave Filoni releases a few episodes of a Saturday morning Star Wars cartoon in theaters and calls it a movie in 2026 I get the feeling everyone has forgotten when Dave Filoni released a few episodes of a Saturday morning Star Wars cartoon in theaters and called it a movie in 2008.

1. The Thing 2. Assault on Precinct 13 3. Halloween 4. Prince of Darkness 5. They Live

Wait wait wait Nicolas Winding Refn died for 20 minutes because of a strange heart condition? Basically exactly like his fucking character Heartman in Death Stranding are you *kidding* me?

Sickos Yes

Mkay let's see, I think I'll draw OJ, Cochran, and Kardashian waving from the pearly gates as Fuhrman walks up and they're saying like "Our star witness is here!" for some reason.

I know I should keep this to myself but I feel like such an asshole even though I've been doing my best to cut back on red meat because I just bought the nicest bag and it's real Grogu leather.

Imagining the world we'd live in if 500 goons with truncheons had descended on the Brooks Brothers riot and beaten every last participant unconscious.

NWR season

If you enjoy the cliched social media reactions that pop up when a terrible movie is screened for softball critics, well uh, let's just say that while the Mandalorian and Grogu obviously isn't perfect, it delivers enough of that classic Star Wars charm to leave fans satisfied.

Bizarre oversight in The Boys, you'd think at some point with the events going on they would have to address the current administration? But instead they act like they've never heard of Trump at all. I guess they're trying to be apolitical.

"If you're an oligarch on a high profile diplomatic trip that could affect every person on planet Earth and all you can talk about is how upset you are about seeing a black person in a movie you should be violently murdered." —A mysterious oracle from the distant past.

BOYS final season so bad that the reddit criticism is broadly salient and substantial.

Look sometimes a divot appears. And it might be in the lawn, or the flesh of a president, but it's really no big deal.

We're gonna hear Grogu's first words. I'm guessing, "just call me Baby Yoda, you may."

Even ABC's goofy, toothless first responder hagiography 9-1-1 is depicting ICE agents as unrepentant villains.

Inviting my friends over to watch some "the world's deadliest cop and smartest criminal have to work together to stop an alien invasion" type shit and then I swap in the worst thing I can find off the time/love/memory/legacy shelf

"You can count shows that have ever gone this hard on one hand. What you do with the other is up to you."

hell yeah baby

My ironclad prediction for After It Happens is that we're gonna see a few of the worst movies ever made about Courageous People Behind the Scenes whose Secret Bravery stopped it all from being vaguely "worse."

So I see Leon Kennedy is in the news again

They're going to save the galaxy

Kyle! Kyle thank god you're here! Leftwing agitators are descending on Mordor. We've got to hurry, quick, I know a shortcut through Cirith Ungol we can take

You can't tell if a Nolan movie is going to be good from the trailer. Sometimes you can't even tell from watching the movie.

Good Star Wars: Wow look at that thing I've never seen before! And that, and that! Where does it come from? What is it doing here? My imagination is going wild! Bad Star Wars: Wow it's Exact Thing I Recognize, and Exact Thing I Recognize in Green! I'm someplace safe and familiar, like the womb!

Like something out of a motion picture

Step 1: Acquire Golden Goose

[barely listening, nodding] Exactly, the Hellraiser video game should be a Cotton family dating sim.

Cregger is great at goofy ghoulish setpieces but the idea that he's already some generational horror auteur is pretty iffy. A Resident Evil movie, though? *Perfect* fit. Very excited.

I support Erika Kirk in her quest to arrest Kano

Cultural nadir

Spoke too soon, new episode rocked

*sigh* An ugly faux-leather jacket with sharpie autographs from Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer

No one gives a shit lol

Not particularly enjoying Euphoria season 3 HOWEVER it's already completely worth it for this promo pic alone

Vice President JD Vance is en route to Islamabad in the hopes of negotiating a peace between critics and audiences.

Brigands of Rattleborge actually happening after 20 years. And with Park Chan-wook directing after all? Maybe we're gonna make it...maybe we're gonna be ok.

Oh HELLLLLL yeah

Dave Filoni directed early episodes of Avatar the Last Airbender, after first introducing the creators to the work of Hayao Miyazaki. That's sort of like if there were a guy who put the Gallagher brothers onto the Beatles, and then quit Oasis to achieve his real dream as an Elvis impersonator.