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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/

Supposedly Brad Pitt was going to reprise his role as Cliff Booth from OUATIH, not play the movie critic himself.

Apparently I have seen her in a few other things then. I watched both those shows.

Civil War was really good. The two biggest things that stood out to me were the sound design (it’s intense!), and Cailee Spaeny. I think the only thing I’ve ever seen her in before this was Bad Times at the El Royale.

Rewatching the old HBO series Tales from the Crypt for the first time since I was a kid. It’s crazy how many fairly big stars they had on this.

Watched Red Eye (2005) for the first time tonight. Not sure how I never saw this before, but it’s a pretty fun thriller. Rachel McAdams, Cillan Murphy, and a much younger looking Brian Cox. I would have never guessed it was directed by Wes Craven.

Speak No Evil looks like a straight up shot for shot remake. And this one feels particularly unnecessary considering they spoke English most of the original. Not to mention it literally just came out two years ago. The director of Eden Lake should certainly be able to do something this bleak very well, but still. I don’t get this one at all.

Finally a MaXXXine trailer!

What a night for Elly De La Cruz. Per OptaSTATS: HR from both sides of the plate over-the-fence HR & inside-the-park HR 4+ runs scored stolen base He's the first player in MLB history to do all of that in the same game.

I had a big smile on my face for much of the Curb Your Enthusiasm finale. I’m going to miss the hell out of this show.

Been watching some of the indie movies on Netflix this weekend, and so far my favorite has definitely been: I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. It’s kind of a dark comedy/crime thriller directed by Macon Blair (Blue Ruin, Green Room), with Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood as the leads. Wood’s character in particular had me cracking up. It was also cool to see Robert Longstreet pop up in this. I actually just recently met him at a horror convention, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in anything outside of the stuff he’s done with Mike Flanagan.

No wonder Ye Wenjie called them back.

I thought Cunningham and Wong were both good.