Thomas Payne
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Thomas Payne
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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”


This movie is so terrible that not even the access media trades can stomach damage control. It’s gonna be a great week.








New 'Star Wars' film panned by critics, leaving the legendary franchise fighting for its future trib.al/2aNnsbZ


#TheMandalorianAndGrogu REVIEW: By nudging “The Mandalorian” onto the big screen, Disney is offering nothing more (or less) than a couple of likable, diverting, semi-forgettable episodes jammed together, albeit with the lavishly scaled action of a big-budget movie adventure. Yet there’s no escaping that “The Mandalorian and Grogu” comes at us with a tidy small-screen consciousness. The upshot is that maybe that’s what #StarWars now is. Read the full review: wp.me/pc8uak-1lHgqy


Jon Favreau Admits He’s ‘Not Sure’ Why Lucasfilm Decided to Make a ‘Mandalorian’ Movie “That quote alone is raising eyebrows among fans already questioning whether the upcoming film needed to exist in the first place.”



‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ is at 63% on Rotten Tomatoes • Based on 68 reviews • One of the lowest-rated Star Wars films


Jon Favreau Says He Doesn’t Know Why Disney Made ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ a Movie "Favreau openly admitted he doesn’t entirely understand why Lucasfilm selected The Mandalorian and Grogu as the movie for franchise’s theatrical comeback."


Does anyone remember that they made a new Indiana Jones movie just 3 years back? Shia Lebouf died in Vietnam and they tried to make Phoebe Waller-Bridge the new Indy. It bombed horribly.


With just five minutes of Pedro Pascal and a completely dispirited voice performance from Jeremy Allen White as Jabba the Hutt’s son, this is the dullest and most inconsequential ‘Star Wars’ ever made Read the full review: independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…


🚨 MAN BUYS 80 PIZZA HUTS TO BRING BACK THE ICONIC VERSION AMERICA MISSED — AND PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR MINDS Tim Sparks, president of Daland Corporation, owns more than 80 Pizza Hut franchises across the country, and he’s now turning many of them back into the old-school Pizza Huts millions of Americans grew up with. While most restaurant chains keep replacing everything with self-checkout screens, gray walls, and sterile modern redesigns… Sparks is bringing back the version people actually remember: • red plastic cups • Pac-Man machines • packed salad bars • giant family booths • Tiffany-style lamps hanging over the tables And people are getting unexpectedly emotional over it. Some of these restored “classic” Pizza Huts are now becoming top-performing locations because customers say it doesn’t just feel like pizza anymore… It feels like stepping back into a completely different era of life. Sparks says the mission is bigger than nostalgia. He wants to rebuild places where families actually sit together again, put their phones down, and talk the way they used to. Now the internet is flooding the comments: • “This feels more human than modern restaurants” • “We didn’t realize how good we had it” • “This is what childhood felt like” • “Why does this make me emotional?” Some customers are reportedly driving HOURS just to eat inside one because they say modern restaurants lost the feeling that made people love them in the first place. Now people are asking: Did corporations deliberately turn restaurants into cold, forgettable spaces... because real human connection was never the priority anymore? 📹: CBS19





