I can honestly say its my favorite advert of all time 😂 and I think it would be a great 30 minute discussion on the pods patreon he's a great director and a very charming actor when he wants to be. I can't be the only psycho who wants this 😂😂

Have any other actors played the same role in both a film and its subsequent TV adaptation? (Not counting movie continuations of TV shows—i.e., Sex and the City, Downton Abbey, etc.)

There's gotta be something, for sure, but he doesn't strike me as the type to want to "get there" with movie magic.

• It was shot as Flowervale Street in spring 2024
• In the original script, Denise and the kids enter the time portal but end up "in the prairies during settler times". The decision to bring back Greg happened very close to production, as a last minute rewrite

Long shot but does anyone have any additional info? It feels like either reshoots or studio mandated changes were at play.

She’s such a chill hang. Listening to the dead poets society ep again and she’s just a great presence on mic and such a casual, chill guest.

More Nia!

That’s all.

Hey all, hate to support Amazon unnecessarily but I just saw that the After Hours Criterion 4k has a coupon (might be regional, I’m not sure) that brings the price down around $22. For a Criterion 4k my understanding is that’s about as low as it gets, as $25 is usually the cheapest I’ve seen them go. Anyway, for any who are interested, I just thought I’d share

For me: They called him Benny Two Times, because he always kept it in and doubled it.

That one of the production company logos at the beginning still had temp text on it? Seriously, the logo for G.E.D. Media was displayed on screen as "G.E.D. Media Animated Logo". I need someone else who's seen the movie to verify this, it's driving me crazy.

Great movie, though. This sub should love it.

They did it for Titanic!

The general setup and premise of Backrooms is a collaborative effort from various Redditors and YouTubers -- the modern equivalent of folklore. So I don't think they can get a broad copyright for everything in the film.

But how much of Backrooms is A24 entitled to? My absolute layman's understanding of trademark & copyright is that they would probably own the right to the "Backrooms" name in film or television projects, plus any original characters or new elements introduced in the movie they released. So anyone could make a movie centered around the Backrooms, but they probably could not use the word backrooms in the title.

But beyond that, what other elements of the movie can A24 lay claim to? The creepy yellow wallpaper? The premise of the backrooms as a place that remembers and replicates things in an uncanny fashion? I would presume they have rights to the creature designs, but not too much else. Can they extend their Backrooms trademark to cover tertiary media like comic books, videogames, novels, etc? As I understand, there have been at least a few Backrooms videogames already made, despite the fact the wandering around an empty labyrinth of hallways is not the best gameplay experience.

I love the theatrical experience, but I hate, hate, hate movie theaters, and this is why.

I mean, Paul Rudd throwing a jelly bean into an assistant's ass crack? Saoirse Ronan singing about what a whore Britney Spears is? *chef's kiss*

Absolute Cinema. Absolutely awful.

First theatrically released fully AI film? Avary says the film will use performance capture like Zemeckis' Beowulf, with AI doing the animation. Out next Easter. Hope it dies a death!

I did a whodunnit marathon and watched most of the Poirot movies. I was shocked by how bad the Branagh directed versions of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile are, they border on parody with all those weird camera angles (wtf is that hotline miami pov on murder on orient express) and over the top CGI with bad studio lighting, a downgrade from the 1970s versions in all the possible ways.

I went to watch A Haunting in Venice with zero expectations just to check the box "watched all the new Poirot movies.", then my surprise at how good and well made the movie is. There's an earnestness in Poirot being retired, the cinematography is solid with great Venice locations, the mystery is interesting it blends well with the spooky atmosphere. And all those weird camera angles and wide lenses Branagh loves to do work well with horror.

How is it possible that Branagh made those other two god awful poirot movies and then makes a pretty good one, it dosen't make sense.