Heidi MacDonald

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~Gandalf J.R.R. Tolkien

Naoko Takeuchi and Yoshihiro Togashi stun in recent photo kcomicsbeat.com/2026/03/20/nao…

I think my favorite dvd commentary fact is from Hellboy when Mike Mignola mentions he was upset that the movie got made because before that a different studio would buy the rights every year and he would make 100k for a movie that never happened.

I'm going to say that even before Netflix.......I liked exposition? One thing about Lost that drove me crazy is that NO ONE EVER TLAKED ABOUT THE MYSTERIES. In mystery novels, people talk about clues all the time.

As a younger Mets fan, I’ll always think of this call when I think of Howie Rose and the 2024 Mets.

Luckily the Trump admin has been throttling research, incentives and adoptions of alternative forms of power like wind and solar - which China is heavily invested in BTW - so we'll be just fine with an oil crisis.

Orange Leader is SUCH A TOTAL IDIOT that he has plunged into a war alienating even the people who have been sucking up to him for years. Who could possibly have foreseen that Donald Trump would turn out to be unstable., irresponsible and capricious. If only there had been signs

Funny how no one ever points out these things.

@CaseyRyback00 @Variety Everything gets rebooted these days. Everyone is too chickenshit to even try new IP.

With budgets tightening everyday, pilots have to be out of this world to continue. I would be worried too if the show required reshoots and it wasn’t doing well in executive focus groups. The narrative may have been one executives decision but I heard many executives were not happy. This was a Willow bullet dodged.

EXCLUSIVE: Sources say Chloé Zhao ultimately proved a mismatch for the “Buffy” reboot, with the pilot reportedly undershot and lacking coverage, requiring reshoots. Her filmmaking style, while acclaimed, didn’t translate to a dialogue-heavy TV pilot, and the new cast’s performances were said to be under-directed, making it difficult for the characters to land. variety.com/2026/tv/news/b…

@RecruitBoss @Variety MCU directors are only allowed to direct the actors. Action scenes are all house made.

@Variety Chloe Zhao made Nomadland. That was a small character driven movie. Just because she won the Oscar for that film does not automatically make her qualified for an superhero film like Eternals. It was too big for her. Nor for Buffy. It’s not her wheelhouse.

Have you dummies seen a Chloe Zhao movie? She knows how to shoot. Pretending she doesn’t is insulting. A classic from the sexism playbook.

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him. In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world. Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters. Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out. Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

For the 10,000th time, there is crying in baseball, and that’s why it’s great.

I am so sick of having to watch videos for complicated stats based explanations on the games I play like Diablo Immortal. It’s as if the Dungeon Masters Guide was an 18 hour video on YouTube!

@DonaldClarke63 It was the terrible, repetitive editing for me,

A large part of the resistance to ANORA – and Madison's performance in particular – really does come down to prudishness. Astonishing in "this day and age".

He torched their relationships with artists, ran their franchises into the ground and turned HBO from the pinnacle of TV into just another streaming outlet, then paid himself almost a billion dollars to sell off the pieces in a merger that will cost thousands of people their jobs

Today doesn’t officially begin until you watch the “Leprechaun in Mobile, Alabama” video

Guess baseball is played around the world after all.

This is evil.

@just_mets The next DeGrom, no question.

Nolan McLean has pitched 7 innings in the WBC. Team USA has scored 0 runs for him in those innings.

It. Is. Happening.