Tasha Robinson

Ha, amazing! Did you notice anything besides Sox, Dug, and Wall-E? I've only seen it the once, and I feel like there was room on the board for one more that I couldn't catch in the 1 second it was onscreen.

Hoppers finally confirms the Unified Pixar Theory in the Easter egg to end all Easter eggs Fans have spun theories for more than a decade claiming all Pixar movies take place in the same universe. With Hoppers Pixar joins in the fun.

This little thing in HOPPERS is very cute, and if you aren't watching closely at the exact right moment, you'll miss it. (Until it gets screengrabbed on streaming.) Go in prepped!

A fish-eating man bent on revenge?

Alan Cumming in one of his bizarro Traitors getups, a black and white marble-patterned suit with immense fabric epaulettes, a high collar, a black cape, and matching black-and-white hair.

Me trying season 4 of THE TRAITORS because it kept crossing my timeline and I'd never watched the show before: "Ha, wow, this is silly, they're just playing Mafia, but they made it crazy melodramatic."

Me by episode 4: "THIS IS NUTS IS HE GOING TO GET AWAY WITH IT MURDER HIS DECEPTIVE SNEAKY ASS"

Not enough people understand the wisdom of teach fish man to a lifetime.

[dances exactly one celebratory mambo]

FIVE mambos? In THIS economy?

WALL-E director says the Pixar classic is still winning him studio arguments 18 years later on a new sci-fi movie The director of Finding Nemo, Toy Story 5, and WALL-E defends optimism and human connection with In the Blink of an Eye, on Hulu now.

As long as I've been in entertainment journalism, I've noticed the stories behind a film can be better than the film. Anyway, I talked to Pixar's Andrew Stanton about his live-action movie IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE and how he used his WALL-E Oscar to convince Searchlight to let him do it his way.

Nobody dares to tell them "Girl, is that really what you're wearing?"

I bought a camera birdfeeder. The constant alerts on my phone are distracting (it's winter in Chicago and every time the wind blows I get a "movement detected" alert) and I've been at war with the squirrels since day one. But still, maybe once a day there's a fun moment that makes it all worth it.

Digital wuthering just never feels quite as wuthery to me. The edges of things always seem to get a little dewuthered.

This is a weird delight of a read. What a weird, unexpected mashup. I particularly love how well the Marsh-wiggles are written. (I heard over the weekend from a friend that this piece was passed to Tony Bourdain before he died, and he admitted it was really well done.)

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms only made one big change to George R.R. Martin's book — but it's infuriating They reversed the entire point of the story! With a single line of dialogue!

I really enjoyed A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS until the finale's literal final shot, and then I was horrified. Season 1 is such a literal adaptation of George R.R. Martin's novella that the new ending, 100 percent reversing the novella, is a real shock — and a harsh betrayal of the intended story.

Horror needs fewer Final Girls, and more Final Couples Horror is always looking for the next big thing, and these movies show why the Final Couple needs to get its due.

Hear me out, both on some really fun horror movies featuring couples who fight together and survive, and on what horror creators can learn from them. It's one of the few finale outcomes horror movies rarely touch, and there's so much potential there.

Maybe not the most unlikely thing for someone jailed as a teenager and given no education or support system, and given someone with the instinctual reaction we see in the flashback. (She could have just hit him once and walked away.) But Sweeney could have played her as a lot more primal.

@davechen.bsky.social I saw this last night, and my take was that Sweeney's character needed to be fairly vapid for the story to work at all. From the flashback crime to her failing to try any sensible response to Seyfried's contradictions to the affair, she has to be unfinished and easily led.

Yeah, them.

Have the damn hobbits made it to Isengard yet???

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

HELL YEAH. Bring on the next wave of creator-owned journalism.

That's just what they tell you the form of government is, though, if you go to the trouble of downloading and installing the government, you find out it's actually completely different

It's a whole lotta book. Like basically four or five novels in different genres, all in one package. It's a bargain!

Absolutely let me know.

Let's be real, no one came for the fizz.

Hope everyone is staying safe and warm and kicking off the new year with a refreshing glass of beef fizz.

I was not expecting to find low-key humor in the manual for this door planer I just unboxed.

Heck yeah, that sounds awesome.

well for starters, the real 2026 is in colour