https://variety.com/2022/film/news/star … 235021307/

A teaser for Season 2 of Picard:
https://www.facebook.com/ParamountPlus/ … 391097437/

Its origin and purpose - still a total mystery...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 … rt-of-utah

Yeah, we used to have a very strong movie poster tradition (a custom film poster was an opportunity to make a covert political statement during the communist era). It died out in the 1990s when theaters started using generic posters (I guess they were supplied alongside film prints). Nowadays only a few arthouse theaters  bother paying local artists.

I tawt I taw a puddy tat!

5 years after its demise, DiF continues to change my life - I learned about this movie from one of the commentaries during my re-listen. It turned out to be a very enjoyable satire, a Zoolander for the music industry (released months before the real Zoolander). Like dozens of cult movies, it was appreciated too late.

Holy carp. Sounds like a great project, I hope they won't get in trouble. Selling fan restorations has always been considered risky - the Star Wars restorations have been ignored by lawyers, but they're always distributed for free (the fan community actually polices that).

I saw The Legend of Drunken Master with the English dub a few months ago and it felt like a Ken Jeong shtick.

I almost did

I saw Close Encounters early in my childhood (towards the end of the '80s) soon after Star Wars and Forbidden Planet and those aliens freaked me out. That's the funny thing about Greys - minor changes to the design can make them look cute (Stargate SG-1) or creepy (Communion). The "uncanny valley" effect works very strongly in that particular distortion of the human form.

Frozen II feels almost like a satire on the first Frozen. Every flaw of the original movie is amped up to nearly comical proportions - there's very little plot and everything revolves around emotional bullshit that could nauseate even Deanna Troi.

and it still made over $1,200,000,000 (as of now).

Seriously though, it's one of 2019's worst productions. It's up there with Zombieland: Double Tap, MIB International, Jumanji: The Next Level and Cats.

I didn't hate the movie, but its attempts to please everyone felt a little desperate at times. Rey's "And I am Iron Man" line and the "Avengers, assemble!" moment with the Rebel fleet came off as somewhat weird just 8 months after Endgame.

The Rise Of Skywalker is inoffensive almost to a fault. Sure, I would have preferred something more auteurish instead of this apology for TLJ (that was probably forced by the studio), but that was just impossible to do for the grand finale of the new trilogy with a budget over $250 million. It could have been better even with these restrictions, but I think it also could have been a lot worse.

The entire sequel trilogy mostly works OK for me. Mostly.

As I mentioned here, DiF commentaries have helped me get through some tough times.

DiF had a secret ingredient that other film commentary podcasts didn't have: filmmakers. Most commentary podcast that were available through Zarban's old site were made by "ordinary people". There's nothing wrong with "ordinary people", but to make an awesome movie podcast you need intimate knowledge of the industry that most "ordinary people" simply don't have.