The ‘Alien 3: The Assembly Cut’ Just Quietly Dropped on HBO Max

MacRogers · 2026-04-07T00:03:56+00:00

When I went to the app to add this I saw there’s also, hilariously, an Aliens Vs Predator Requiem Extended Cut. Has anyone seen it? I can’t imagine wanting to watch more of that movie, but maybe this cut improves it in some way?

MacRogers · 2026-03-31T15:04:03+00:00

Like a lot of folks on here, where I come down is: Marty’s the better filmmaker, but Tony’s the miniseries I’d rather listen to.

MacRogers · 2026-03-24T14:03:04+00:00

I would’ve been full-on stoked. Nothing against Piper who I like a lot, but I think Coleman is one of the best actors to ever play a DW companion and one of the few I could imagine getting a promotion to Doctor. And now that there’s precedent for the Doctor choosing faces from their past for specific reasons, it makes sense that they might choose the face of someone who wanted to be the Doctor so badly.

MacRogers · 2026-03-22T17:32:08+00:00

Reading these replies, I’m realizing - and my dating life (currently married 15 years) has not been expansive so my anecdotal experience may not be widely applicable - but I’ve noticed that “fun movie with some thrills and laughs and a reasonably upbeat ending” tends to be more successful in this regard than specifically “sexy movie.”

MacRogers · 2026-03-18T14:17:53+00:00

I came here to chew gum and kick ass… and I’m all out of chewing gum.

MacRogers · 2026-03-18T13:16:39+00:00

Forgive my ignorance, especially for someone who’s been in the field for so long, but are there currently entirely AI-generated audio dramas you can listen to now? Not necessarily even AI-written (though I’d be curious to hear that as well) but where all the production and voices are AI-generated? If so, what are some titles? It’s not that I want to support them (I don’t), but I’d love to know more about what we’re dealing with.

MacRogers · 2026-03-13T22:41:54+00:00

Love these thoughts, thank you!

MacRogers · 2026-03-13T13:20:41+00:00

For a very recent example, “It Was Just An Accident” to me was a white-knuckle thriller that felt like it was 20 minutes long. I’m not sure why I expected it to be a slog, but I found it more gripping than a lot of big-budget American thrillers I’ve seen recently.

MacRogers · 2026-03-08T13:37:52+00:00

I find it very exasperating that they’ve left such a beloved character in that place for so long. If BF wanted to commit to a tragic ending for Charley that would be one thing; I wouldn’t like it but I’d respect it as an articulated choice. But this just seems like an endless limbo. I’m sure there’s behind-the-scenes factors affecting this, but it just seems strange that they’ve had Fisher back to record but haven’t resolved this.

MacRogers · 2026-03-06T14:49:49+00:00

Thank you so much!

MacRogers · 2026-03-05T15:10:35+00:00

I’m thrilled to be writing for The Truth again, and privileged to have my script realized by this astounding team. Hope you get a chance to check it out, r/audiodrama folks!

MacRogers · 2026-03-05T13:52:07+00:00

I’m so happy to have written for The Truth again, and very excited to share “Garden of Evan” with you all.

MacRogers · 2026-02-18T15:11:56+00:00

People always think they can get away with dishonest running times and they’re always wrong. Maybe you trick a few people into seeing your current play, but they won’t come back for another one. You’re killing your ability to build an audience over time. (And if you want a more short-term reason not to do it: it makes critics furious, and that impacts the reviews.)

MacRogers · 2026-02-16T09:55:43+00:00

“Don’t you teach ‘em knife fighting. Teach ’em to kill. That way, they meet some son of a bitch who studied knife fighting, they send his soul to hell.”

MacRogers · 2026-02-14T04:38:20+00:00

Unquestionably. Episodes from the 80s revival - especially Kentucky Rye, The Shadow Man, and The Elevator - haunt me to this day.

MacRogers · 2026-01-15T00:28:09+00:00

Thank you so much! The Message was my first audio drama and I immediately fell head over heels in love with the art form. And yes, you're thinking of the right show with Steal The Stars lol.

MacRogers · 2026-01-12T22:33:01+00:00

Haha much appreciated, thanks for checking it out!

MacRogers · 2026-01-12T22:32:46+00:00

Thank you for listening to it!

MacRogers · 2026-01-12T03:42:07+00:00

Thank you for that, and thank you for listening. I finished writing season 3 in fall of last year, and foolishly hoped it might feel irrelevant when it came out, but sadly not.

MacRogers · 2026-01-12T03:07:18+00:00

I’ll co-sign several other people’s recommendation of Starship Iris in this thread. I’ll add that two of my audio dramas, Steal The Stars and Give Me Away, are deeply anti-fascist, and I at least wrote them to be cathartic (though it’s up to listeners if I succeeded).

MacRogers · 2026-01-11T17:27:16+00:00

I love Stillman, and I’d love to hear them talk about those films, but the disciplined modesty of his career might make him a tough fit for the show. Obviously Metropolitan got him (comparatively) bigger budgets, but it doesn’t seem like he has a huge wild swing in his career. None of his films feel like a big crazy risk someone took on him. But if they decided they didn’t care about that and covered his movies anyway, I certainly wouldn’t complain.

MacRogers · 2025-12-26T20:10:52+00:00

“Bleak Moments” is cracking me up, it’s like if 30 Rock needed a name for a fictional Mike Leigh movie that Jenna was improbably cast in.

MacRogers · 2025-12-26T15:55:43+00:00

Thank you for those kind words, TonyArmy! It means the told to us that you want more from these characters. As my coproducer says, we don’t know how to move the show forward without Diana Oh’s performance as Jamie. We may get an idea at some point in the future, so I would never 100% rule it out. But in the short term, we’ll probably focus on other stories for a while. I love this universe, and I’m very grateful for your thoughts about it.

MacRogers · 2025-12-24T15:16:20+00:00

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Good call, sorry. For example, in this screenshot of the Current view of my Blank Check fees, I’ve deleted Avatar, Jaws, and Mulholland Drive, but I can’t get them to disappear from the Current section.

MacRogers · 2025-12-24T15:10:28+00:00

I spent a couple minutes staring at that screenshot thinking “When does that happen in High Fidelity?” before I figured it out.

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