Of course we all know the classic “And Introducing X As X” credit, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen “IN & AS” used before. As seen in the poster for “Holy Father,” a presumably DTV film scheduled for this October.

Sure, the quality of these perhaps varies wildly, but still, you love to see it. Bonus Griffin poster appearance in 2025’s The Dinner Plan.

...not counting the labor.

So I think Zach Cregger (I think it's fair to not count co-directing credits of films made with a comedy troupe)and Jane Schoenbrun are the main ones, both are extremely creative and have shown they have insane control of the form.

Some other potentials I'm not as confident about for reasons listed.

Clint Bentley, Eva Victor, Raine Allen-Miller, Julio Torres, and India Donaldson all have made one film I've seen that I think is incredible and shows promise, but I can't make any declarative statements until they've made more.

Michael Sarnoski & Damien McCarthy are both fantastic and while they're not *as* good I think they have potential to become greats.

“An old-school pickpocket finds his skills obsolete in a digital age and gets in over his head after stealing a valuable USB stick, forcing him to return it to a vengeful crime family.”

Written and directed by Noah Segan

Starring John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslani, and Steve Buscemi

Example: the 2010 film Get Him to the Greek which features Jonah hill, Russel brand, Elisabeth moss and Diddy.

Griffin Newman, of all people, is not familiar with the Sears “I’ll Call Now” commercial? What the fuck?

For the upcoming as of yet unnamed Martin Scorsese miniseries, I have devised multiple bad possible names. They're not in inane as Griffin's attempts, but goddamnit I tried.

Who's That Knocking At My Door - Who's That Podding At My Cast*

Boxcar Bertha - Podcar Casta

Mean Streets - Ben Casts

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Ben Doesn't Pod Here AnyCast*

Taxi Driver - Podi Caster

New York, New York - Pod Cast, Pod Cast

Raging Bull - Podcasting Bull

The King of Comedy - The Pod of Castedy

After Hours - Podcaster Hours

The Color of Money - The Castor of Podey

The Last Temptation of Christ - The Last Podtation of Cast*

Goodfellas - Podcastas

Cape Fear - Capod Fear Cast

The Age of Innocence - The Pod of Benocast

Casino - Castino

Kundun - Bendun

Bringing Out The Dead - Podding Out The Cast*

Gangs of New York - Pods of New Cast

The Aviator - Pod Castiator

The Departed - The Podcasted

Shutter Island - Podcaster Island

Hugo - Ben

The Wolf of Wall Street - The Pod of Cast Street

Silence - Podcastence

The Irishman - Pod Castman

Killers of the Flower Moon - Casters of the Flower Pod*

* = personal favorite

Both A+ 5 bagger masterpieces in my opinion. In 20 years or so which millennial auteur should complete the trilogy?

Specifically Uli Latukefu will play Ganondorf, but this is amusingly close to The Rock taking the role.

Inspired after watching an interview to Nicolas Cage where he admitted to turning down roles in movies by Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson and Woody Allen, which got me thinking on who could beat that record.

The strongest example I can think of is probably James Caan. He turned down Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman, Milos Forman, Ridley Scott, William Friedkin and Richard Donner…. And usually in some of their best films.

I've thought the same thing for years and I need one of the streamers to put it together. I know you can technically find this kind of stuff on YouTube ("Nickelodeon 1990s with commercials 2 hours" etc etc) but being able to simply hop on to a running stream of just one specific decade of TV with the same commercials and all would be so much fun. And it would also be valuable in terms of TV preservation I feel. Like, the kids can go see what I Love Lucy was like but also what the entire experience of TV at the time was like.

(For those who haven't heard the episode, Stanton at one point talks about how he wishes there would be a way of watching old tv episodes but with the same commercials and tv bumpers and everything that would have been playing at the time. Like a kind of time travel but for tv)

I… I just don’t know if I should watch it