Saw this clip going round again and it's insane how this does not feel like Hera Syndulla AT ALL. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a talented actress, but she is so utterly miscast in this role that the two versions of Hera feel like completely separate entities.

Look, art is *luckily* a very subjective concept and with Star Wars it's really enjoyable to hear why exactly different movies or shows are people's favourite, but if you think Andor was 'boring', I will instantly assume you're stuck with the mind of a 12 year old.

This is the show some people dare to call bland because some of its planets embody the lifelessness of fascist architecture btw.

You pathetic losers couldn't even handle when "Baby's First Prestige Political Thriller" used the word rape.

The mere possibility of getting a final Mad Max movie by Miller fills my heart with joy. One of the kings of blockbuster filmmaking. Furiosa's failure at the box office was incredibly sad, so I am glad he might get a chance to finish this franchise's story on his own terms.

Your original critique was utterly stupid and included lines like “Coruscant now looks like shit because ehhhhh empire fascism ehhhhh fascism is when grey and boring mehhhh.” It took me one minute to find anti-immigrant garbage on your account and you're apparently a pedophile too. If this series offended people like you, I will forever celebrate that.

We need more stories like Andor, not just because it's good, but because right wing idiots hated it so much, they are still coming up with hilarious new contrarian takes to this day because they can't grapple with their own ideology being represented as ultimate evil.

I think I found Dave Filoni's burner account.

Let's fucking gooooo.

Currently rewatching Severance and...am I the only one who thinks this could kinda work?

Thrawn is a difficult character to write because you have to create the illusion that he is smarter than the author himself. Sadly, Filoni has resorted to making him say "all according to plan" every episode to hide his lack of ideas for the character. If you don't want to kill a main character every 5 minutes, you need to find interesting ways for him to seem clever, but since his introduction in Rebels, Filoni has never found a way to properly do that. The Ahsoka series hinges entirely on this hearsay storytelling of Thrawn's apparent intellect and it's frustrating to watch.

DISCLOSURE DAY, an oblong and unwieldy exploration of humanity's inalienable right to truth in a post-truth world and a speculation on the revelation of extra-terrestrial life is sadly one the most hollow and uninspired movies in Steven Spielberg's filmography. The cast is fantastic, with Emily Blunt as the clear standout upon whom the entire movie hinges. Eve Hewson is a name I was not familiar with, but her character ended up being the one I found most interesting on a thematic level. Colman Domingo rocks. 94 year-old John Williams gave it his all with a beautiful, whimsical score that might not rival his best works, but still carried this movie beautifully. While not a masterful example of Spielberg's legendary staging and blocking, Disclosure Day still looks good, because most of its scenes are well lit and Spielberg's action always has great clarity. It is undoubtedly one of the more visually enticing blockbusters of the year (highly questionable VFX aside), but at the same time, there's nothing here you haven't already seen in a superior manner throughout his filmography. There is an action sequence involving a train which left me particularly disappointed, considering Spielberg made one of the greatest train scenes of all time in 1989. The glaring VFX issues are even more apparent whenever the digital animals appear, breaking immersion completely. For me, this isn't a make it or break it issue; the design of the aliens however most certainly is! Mild spoilers ahead for something that was already somewhat visible in the trailers, but I was baffled that Spielberg would actually give us aliens that look like this --> 👽 in the year 2026. I love classic sci-fi stories, but Disclosure Day feels so stuck in the past at times, it becomes actively frustrating. The uninteresting design of the aliens is sadly emblematic of Disclosure Day's biggest issue, which, is legendary screenwriter David Koepp's lackluster script. Too little of the movie actually revolves around its fascinating premise, as the few interesting ideas it has are drowned beneath endless chase and escape sequences. Its central plot never comes close to reaching the immense potential of its premise, its character journeys are never as interesting as they should be and its thematic exploration remains utterly shallow. Frequently, background characters mention developments in international politics and in its third act, it is outright stated that Earth is on the cusp of World War III, but we never actually see any of it; none of these off-hand comments matter in the grand scheme of things. They are completely irrelevant to our characters and to the story being told. Some people will argue that's not what this movie is about (true!) but for a film that so often talks about the importance of its grand revelation to the 8 billion people of the world, its world-building is bafflingly amateurish and narratively inept, which can make the film feel cold and distant when it wants to be touching and inspiring. Whenever the movie actually dares to venture into religious / philosophical territories, i.e. Christians in the face of other potential creations of their god or ponderings on humanity's right to know the full truth, I found it utterly fascinating. Sadly, there is just too little of it in its 2h 25minute runtime and some segments are quite frankly boring. Its 3rd act is by far the strongest and whenever it fully embraces the beauty of its naive optimism & its relentless hopefulness, it is both engaging and touching. The final twenty minutes are pure Spielberg magic, but it's too little too late. Never have I seen a movie where the most interesting story it could have told is found on the 30-40 pages they never wrote. This film's ending should have been the halfway point of its story, but Koepp & Spielberg are completely uninterested in *actually* showing us the world's reckoning with this great revelation. One of my biggest disappointments this year.

What do you mean "you wished this was conveyed more overtly in the film", you made the damn film 😭

Now Watching: Steven Spielberg's DISCLOSURE DAY

What an insane movie to start the year with.