Agreed. I was actually kind of looking forward to this series of movies until I found out The Mummy was just going to be another Tom Cruise movie.

But a “B” styled movie might only make $500M instead of a billion. Of course, they could forego using temperamental, narcissistic, “A” list actors and cut the budget in half but that may be too logical an approach.

Agreed. Honestly, I know this is a sort of a stretch, but I’d even be on board for rebooting the “Abbott & Costello Meet the ‘X’” series with, wait for it... David Mitchell and Robert Webb. It’d probably be a disaster, but I’d watch the fuck out of it.

That film is maddening because I can see how it might have turned out as a good film, if they’d changed some stuff. Instead . . . .

It’s obviously what the end goal is. They want an Avengers out of their monsters. I don’t care for that.

I’d be more on board if they weren’t trying to do League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

You know, I don’t hate the idea of a Universal Dark Universe and bringing back these old titles that made them as a studio. I just wish that they really took advantage of the opportunity and made truly contemporary versions of these classics. Tap into the original themes and give them to directors who thrive on small…

Somewhere, Nicole Kidman is reading this and cackling.

One of my favorite pastimes is finding old quiz shows on Youtube. Partly for the celebrity panelists but mostly for the average Joes. This is one of my favorites. Here is a guy who was the last known living witness to Lincoln being shot in Ford’s Theatre.

all I could think of was Richard Harrow from Boardwalk Empire when watching Wonder Woman. Update: someone already posted my bad. Smithsonian Mag as a great article about the masks if anyone wants to read up on them more and see pictures.

“The letters of gratitude from the soldiers and their families hurt, they are so grateful.”

radiolabs episode on her called patient zero is one of my favorite podcast episodes. as an African queer woman, learning how AIDS really started, and not the misinformed antigay propaganda i accepted, felt like a minibomb exploded in my head.

The Vulture excerpt totally confirmed my suspicion that Ryan Adams is a real asshole.

This stupid show has been on for six years? I’ve never even heard of it.

This was still on? I thought it had been cancelled years ago.

No, worries, mademoiselle, the oldest hipster in Brooklyn is on the case.

wtf. I’m at a loss for words at that link.

This is infuriating

My understanding was that Palin was pushed on him by the Republican leadership. If so, you can blame him for not doing his due diligence in vetting her, or for being weak enough that he allowed the party to pick his VP without openly complaining (which would have forced the party’s hand).

I think McCain is an excellent illustration of how positive character traits are not necessarily transitive from one context to another. Just because he was brave in one circumstance hasn’t precluded his being a coward others.