AngieBee1

There has been a growing sentiments that movies are too long nowadays and my argument is that there are films with a short run time yet feels long - that's "Black Bag" to me. I am a fan of Soderbergh, fan of much of the cast (especially Tom Burke), but wow, did it make me work for it. Beyond the first dinner film, it was a slog.

The people voting on awards aren't necessarily paying to see the films; they get screeners, go to screenings, some studios even rent out a local cinema and during set showtime a member can show their guild card and watch the film.

Now that it is on VOD in the UK, on Paramount+ in the U.S. and in theatres in Brazil, I'm heartened by the Twitter reactions to the film. So many people were surprised at how excellent it is, how emotional it is and are dubbing it the best musical they have seen.

Unless something has substantially changed, it was announced a few months back that Phil likely wasn't returning. He's been cast in Bill Lawrence's HBO series. I don't see him coming back, at least an any substantial way.

Same. Nearly 60? He looks like he's in his mid-30s. Really loved the film. It seems rare that a comedic film wins Best Picture. The Academy members has loosened up in recent years with "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" and "Green Book" receiving honours. I was all in on "Conclave" and was pushing for it to sweep, but if it had to lose to anything I'm glad it was "Anora".

I really enjoyed this. In the past I discounted Robert Pattinson's skills because of the awful "Twilight" films but I have come around. He's a consistently great and entertaining actor and he lends those skills to MICKEY 17.

I still want that spin-off film with Gemma Chan and Harry Shum Jr. that was announced years ago.

Loved it. Very effective and the device of doing it in real(ish) time makes it a quick watch. I'm not a fan of Peter Sarsgaard so I was happy that they used his name/face to bring people to the tent, but it was is really focused on John Magaro and Ben Chaplin. It was great to see the grounds-floor take on it, as I knew of the incident through Steven Spielberg's "Munich", so it's great to get that perspective. I also loved getting a look at how territorial news space was.

There's a trailer for the upcoming German adaptation. Very happy for the OG Ghosts team that they've created a franchise.

I'm sure the cast doesn't care.

It is, with 22 nominations from both AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema & Television) (16) and AACTA International Awards (6). Very disappointed in the BAFTAs for only giving it 1 nomination. I doubt the AMPAS will do better.

Scheduling conflict. The first Claudia had to finish the Avatar films. The new Claudia, while having a musical theatre background didn't perform the vocals for Claudia in S2. It was beneficial to the storytelling in S1 considering the racial component in New Orleans. Louis was able to navigate those spaces due to having money, and yet even with his wealth and being on equal footing with the the other businessmen, he was still viewed as less than. In S2 in Paris he mentions buying a painting and his plans for it and future art, which gives insight on how he built his wealth. For many the assumption was that the Dubai apartment was Armand's, but we know when Louis kicks him out at the end of S2, it is Louis'. He has truly become the first vampire capitalist. He's a member of The Talamasca (which is in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles universe and will have its own spin-off) and they have been tracking vampires for centuries. I don't think they directly explained why he was intervening in Molloy's interview, but as he mentioned the plot point from S1 of the vampires plotting a Great Conversion, I think he wanted to use Molloy as a future asset.

For me, the problem started with the premise itself. The concept of "magical Negro" is not about Black person/characters making things better for white people in order to spare themselves/the Black community from harm, it's the Mary Sue-ification of Black characters. It's when a Black character's innate wisdom/kindness/benevolence only serves as a function to make a white character grow/learn. There is comedy that could be mined from the original concept of "magical negro", but instead they bastardized the trope.

Autumn Brown posted outtakes of her cast interviews.

He is only doing the narration (which there quite a lot of). The actual dialogue and motion capture is done by an actor called Jonno Davies.