This was a roller coaster of emotions! I had to look up Potato World after that and saw Col. Chris Hadfield is giving a speech nearby this evening

Never seen a quokka murder someone before

The first of 31 articles- I look forward to this series!

Exactly! lol

Just barely, looks like! Good job being brave, Mr. Snow

I watched Barry Lyndon and really didn’t care for it, plus I don’t mind long movies but it didn’t need to be 3 hours. I started reading the book and liked it a lot more- a lot of lines were lifted entirely verbatim, but there’s more to the character of Barry Lyndon in the book where at least he’s terrible in an interesting way. I don’t know who to blame for how he turned out in the movie, but he acted like a long-suffering hero that turned out to be terrible in every lazy way possible, just like the rest of the characters. It was exhausting.

I also saw the Killing and I liked it a lot. It might even be my favorite Kubrick movie but don’t kill me for saying that.

And I’ve seen the Mummy a few times before but never on the big screen and I never saw it when I was younger. I honestly just thought it was ok before, although I loved my boyfriend’s enthusiasm for it. But seeing it on the big screen with a bunch of people who love it (and some even seeing it for the first time) has converted me, it looked incredible and was so much fun!

I agree with everything you said about Priory, and would add that the sex scenes were maybe the most badly written to the point it was painful. I almost never give up on a book even when I should, but I had to leave this one unfinished. And I’ve finally stopped seeing the cover of the second one and thinking ooh what’s this? Before I realize it’s nothing I want to read. I liked How to Lose the Time War pretty well and will check out your other recommendations!

Yay, thank you! I was sad to leave behind my reminders for the epoxy hot dog and that chunk of ham on a nail, but it’s nice to see this here

I love Nicolas Cage so much! It’s funny to see him so subdued, this looks like it’ll be really good

Yes!! I haven’t thought about what my favorite animated movies are but this might be number one. I know it makes a difference having watched it when I was little but it just feels so immersive, like I’m moving through that space as the story unfolds around me.

I used to call one of my good friends Bernard instead of his real name, the joke was using some made up wrong name and that one stuck, but I didn’t realize until now why I liked that name : ) And we say Joaaannaaaaaa surprisingly often in our house

This answered my questions about release pacing and Netflix collaboration, but it was obnoxious to read on mobile so here’s most of it:

Wes Anderson announced in an interview with IndieWire that his upcoming Netflix movie “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” based on Roald Dahl’s 1977 short story collection, will only be 37 minutes long. The film is Anderson’s second Dahl adaptation after “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel and Ben Kingsley. Notably, “Henry Sugar” marks Anderson’s first Netflix original. He told IndieWire that collaborating with the streamer was more out of necessity than personal preference.

“In my case it’s a little bit of a weird thing,” Anderson said about partnering with Netflix. “I knew Roald Dahl since before we made ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox.’ I met Lindsay Dahl, his widow, when we were shooting ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ like 20 years ago. For years I wanted to do ‘Henry Sugar.’ They set this story aside for me because I was friends with them. Lindsay kind of handed the torch to Luke, Dahl’s grandson. So I had this waiting for me. But I really couldn’t figure out the approach. I knew what I liked in the story was the writing of it, Dahl’s words. I couldn’t find the answer, and then suddenly I did. It’s not a feature film. It’s like 37 minutes or something. But by the time I was ready to do it, the Dahl family no longer had the rights at all. They had sold the whole deal to Netflix.”

“Suddenly, in essence, there was nowhere else you could do it since they own it,” Anderson continued. “But beyond it, because it’s a 37-minute movie, it was the perfect place to do it because it’s not really a movie. You know they used to do these BBC things called ‘Play for Today’ directed by people like Steven Frears and John Schlesinger and Alan Clarke. They were one hour programs or even less. I kind of envisioned something like that.”

It appears “Henry Sugar” will be more akin to Anderson’s 2007 short film “Hotel Chevelier,” a 13-minute prologue to his feature film “The Darjeeling Limited” that starred Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman.

“It’s not quite the choice between a full-fledged cinema release and a streaming release because you would never distribute a short film like that and distribute it in cinemas,” Anderson said about his “Henry Sugar” adaptation. “They’d have to sell cheaper tickets or do a double feature… I had only a good experience with Netflix, but I’m very happy to be putting ‘Asteroid City’ in cinemas. Focus and Universal are doing it the real cinema way. That’s the way I really want my movies to be shown.”

I used to watch Hotel Chevalier on repeat, it’s been too long

Edit: formatting and typo

Actually I think I only investigated because you’d deleted a comment, so you were the catalyst to the fulfillment of your dream prophecy. Also the fuse must’ve been faulty on this one

“compel them to go into low company” I think he’s worried she might have to join a brothel or hook up with shady company to provide for herself and her children after he’s gone

I really loved the Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, and have been wanting to reread them, which I don’t do with many books, plus read her other stuff.

Also, it’s fantasy not sci-fi but I’m currently reading Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse and liking it so far.

Did you select the hide read setting? Cause I think that’ll hide your own posts

Why do you go back and delete all your comments?

Did you read the article? He also grabbed his crotch in celebration in front of the queen and princess

On the opposite end, from watching the trailer I could not understand how Barbie was going to be as good as people said, it seemed so one note! I’m so glad it wasn’t all shown to me ahead of time

If the request is fulfilled, who becomes the mod?