Nictarion

Sounds like we’re probably getting another season. https://deadline.com/2024/05/hiroyuki-sanada-deal-shogun-renewed-season-2-fx-emmys-drama-1235911076/

I didn’t realize this was by the director of the excellent Nicolas Cage film - Pig.

Watched The Wages of Fear (1953) and I have to say, it’s a really tough call between this and Sorcerer (both adaptations of the same book). They’re pretty equally fantastic, but I think I prefer the ending of the latter.

Lazarus is really good, but it’s currently on hiatus.

I finally watched Michael Mann’s Manhunter for the first time last night. Good stuff. I think William Peterson was probably the best Will Graham out of the three actors that portrayed him. Tom Noonan also made a great Francis Dolarhyde, too. His size alone made the character that much more imposing. I’ve seen people say the film is a bit dated, but I actually really liked the 80’s synth music, and the atmosphere overall.

Elly De La Cruz now has the most stolen bases (18) before May 1st since Deion Sanders in 1997. He has more steals than 16 MLB teams. 8 HR already, too.

Shout out to Tadanobu Asano who really killed it in this. I think Yabushige ended up being my favorite part of the show. I thoroughly enjoyed it overall, even if the finale was a bit of a letdown.

I’m taking that one with a grain of salt. Mims was originally committed to play for Saban before switching to Georgia…

Not sure I’d call one injury a “history.”

The Killing of a Sacred Deer is probably still my favorite Lanthimos.

I remember really liking the western he did (The Proposition - 2005). Very bleak. Very brutal. I don’t see anything about Pratt still being attached in the above article, so hopefully that’s not the case anymore. I saw a fan casting for The Judge of Anthony Carrigan from Barry, and now I can’t unsee it.

John Logan Tapped to Write Film Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’ https://variety.com/2024/film/news/blood-meridian-movie-john-logan-writer-1235980122/

I watched this last night. I really dug it. It was actually even darker than I expected with the whole

Tarantino had been honing The Movie Criticfor months. Set in 1977 California, it initially drew inspiration from a cynical movie critic that the filmmaker grew up reading. But sources say it morphed along the way into a film that would feature Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth, the stuntman he portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It is unclear if this film was going to be a prequel or a 1970s-set sequel to Hollywood. But in recent weeks, Tarantino had a change of heart again and moved away from the film entirely. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/quentin-tarantino-no-longer-making-the-movie-critic-1235876453/