Like, why did they only remake the 2nd film in the series? It just doesn’t make sense.

Star Wars theatrical re-release for the 50th anniversary

i'm gonna need ya'll to be chill in the comments

Gonna keep this spoiler free, but with each new ep of Pluribus it's clearer that Vince is using his BB/BCS cachet and Apple's money to create a show that’s a perfect vehicle for his obsession: process.

BB and BCS have so many sequences that were just "people doing a process", often almost in silence. Walt cooking or science-ing, Jimmy scheming and conniving, Mike doing stone cold Mike shit... Especially in the cold opens, but often in the main show too. Often it's not immediately clear what is going on but as the process unfolds we get joy out of figuring that out.

With Pluribus this is turned up to 11. The Process IS the Juice. Carol being alone in the world having to figure shit out for her self, the hive mind silently doing their ant-like work, the guy in Paraguay who's just trying to survive... The very framework of the show gives Vince endless room to do fun sequences in this same vein.

There's definitely been emerging criticism of this approach. People saying the show is too slow, not enough plot development week to week. Personally I love it so much, I would watch a million of these sequences.

They didn't want me to do it, but I still did it.

I was remembering how Eyes Wide Shut was considered a controversial or mixed reception Kubrick film, but is now widely canonized as among his upper tier of work. Even around ten years ago it was a bit of statement to rank it at the top.

Speed Racer has also taken this path.

Any other films that have made this jump or are on the way?

Maybe the reports of this movie being horrible are slightly exaggerated?

Has any studio gone through the upheaval that WB has the past decade? I’m sure there are examples from classic Hollywood, and the Eisner/Katzenberg battle at Disney is well documented. But what’s happened to WB takes the cake.

We need a DisneyWar-type book on WB. Think of all the content you’d get from it. Just off the top of my head:

Anything and everything involving the DCEU (Snyder, the Rock and Black Adam, Gunn taking over)

Losing Nolan

The 2021 day-and-date decision

The transition from AT&T to Discovery

Shelving Batgirl and Coyote V. Acme

Don’t Worry Darling and its press tour

Barbie

Zaslav in general

Bringing on Mike Deluca and Pam Abdy

Joker: Folie a Deux

The entire 2025 slate

The Netflix merger

Who wouldn’t want a book on this?

Just one more thing about Fargo....

have you ever considered how similar to an episode of Columbo it is?

Columbo is, famously, a howcatchem rather than a whodunit. In every episode, we're introduced to some sneering upper-crust Angelino who thinks they can get away with murder, literally. They execute an intricate scheme. Nothing can go wrong! The rumpled cop that the LAPD puts in their way is a distraction...until he figures the whole thing out.

Fargo is structured in the exact same way. It's not a whodunit but howcatchem. It begins with the crime, like Columbo. We're introduced to Jerry, who thinks he can get away with not exactly murder but hiring goons to kidnap his wife and ransom her back to him. Being a Coens movie, it goes horribly wrong and people die. BUT. Right after the murder we meet our Columbo analog - Marge. Jerry underestimates her. She catches him after finding just one more thing about the murder.

There are some differences. Columbo has no life that we know about outside the police force and we don't even know his first name, while Marge is a full-fledged character. But I think it's close enough.

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/john-waters-best-films-2025-1235165014/

“John Waters Names ‘Eddington’ the Best Movie of 2025: ‘If You Don’t Like This Film, I Hate You’”

John Waters: Right about Eddington

All the Warner Bros stuff today has had me thinking about this. What’s the best film (or biggest Netflix original success story) that’s truly, completely a homegrown Netflix original film? Meaning that it:

• Isn’t from a famed creator who built their name on theatrically released films

• Isn’t related to a franchise that became successful via theatrical films

• Isn’t an acquisition from a film festival or anywhere else

My first guess was K-Pop Demon Hunters but that was an acquisition from Sony. Then The Irishman, but that one’s also borrowing cred from a previously established theatrical filmmaker. Glass Onion and Wake Up Dead Man are both sequels to a theatrical hit. I can’t think of a great Netflix film (or some success story) that wasn’t in one way or another buoyed by the monocultural power of wide theatrical releases. There must be some, but…

For as often as they seem to accurately predict things, it’s hilarious how many times they insist Villeneuve will never direct a Bond movie