“Elsewhere, on Rome II’s Steam forums, people are calling for McConnell’s firing...”

Woof, I didn’t know why I knew the name until I just Googled it. Doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.

Chevy was definitely an asshole, but his misgivings had merit, and they seem to be consistent with complaints about Harmon since he started out (Sarah Silverman fired him for the same reason). Harmon’s treatment of the situation was worse than Chase’s assholery. I love Harmon and everything he’s done, but he…

Henry Cavill was always a wasted opportunity in those movies. He’s the perfect actor in the role -- unfortunately in movies made by knobs who had no interest in making Superman movies.

My twelve-year-old niece is looking forward to playing this game. If Insomniac wants to show a version of New York where cops are the good guys that don’t murder brown people, and the crimes don’t include investigating rapists and child molesters, that’s fine by me. No, it’s not a realistic version of the real world…

He thinks that Chris Hardwick specifically got “the blunt end of the stick,” from this awful trend of trusting women, even though he seems to have suffered absolutely no repercussions from the accusations that were made against him.

While it is a problem that there are too few gay actors cast in those roles, I don’t think it’s an intentional one, or a masculinity problem. I don’t think anybody would accuse Lee Pace’s Ronan The Accuser as being too flamboyant. Or for Luke Evans’ Gaston or Bard of not being manly enough. It’s a shame no gay actors…

Their initial response to the criticism is what really bothers me about this more than anything. Simply putting neo-Nazi references onto characters who are supposed to be bad people feels logical, if misguided. When people complain about it, the reasonable answer is, “yeah, I guess we missed the mark here. Our bad!…

No, The Other Side of the Wind is Orson Welles telling the story of making The Other Side of the Wind, as he’s making it. In other words, Abed.

The implication of this article is that Ninja’s value to protect and maintain his personal life is secondary to his duty as a public figure. It’s pretty easy to say he should be using his status to make an impact when you’re not the one sitting in his position.

Are we talking about Frozen or The Last Jedi? Either way, I’m on board.

I had never considered an Oscar for Best Casting, but now I can’t imagine an award I want more than that. Good casting is something that everybody recognizes (or more importantly, bemoans when it’s bad), but I have never once known the name of a casting director, and that’s a shame.

Marc Webb clearly wanted to make a young-adult romantic drama. You could take both of his Spider-Mans and produce something that looks like a decent John Green novel adaptation.

It’s funny how the things that aren’t explained because they don’t matter end up being such a big focus for viewers. It literally doesn’t matter what’s in the briefcase, the same way it doesn’t matter what’s said in Lost in Translation, or how Joker got his scars in The Dark Knight, or if the top keeps spinning in…

It is exciting, nonetheless, to see those predictions realized. Anytime somebody says there’s going to be an industry-wide shift in the next five to ten years, it’s easy to scoff. “It’ll happen eventually, but not that fast.” And yet Netflix already has more viewers than movies, cable, broadcast television, and all of…

Let’s get back to the core of this: you’re suggesting that Deroir saying branching dialogue is a good solution to the criticism Price had with MMO storytelling is worth being called a misogynist and berated publicly by somebody whose work he was a fan of and wanted to have a healthy conversation with?

I know I must be uncultured swine, but I really didn’t enjoy this movie much at all. I was constantly impressed with it on a technical level, and I was aware that it was very intentional with everything it did, but the last half hour of the movie was just frustrating. But I guess I have to pretend I liked it for…

I gotta disagree, Heather. She wrote from a personal account, yeah, but one that she writes about her work as a writer for ArenaNet, and her bio even says, “Game producer, writer, editor, howling maenad. ArenaNet Narrative team ...” so her comments have a very clear connection to — and influence on — her employer. That…

This article is extremely disingenuous. Kotaku has had a great track record for sometime now, so it’s disappointing to see this situation cast in such a light. The tweets speak for themselves. Jessica Price’s comments were completely uncalled for, and ArenaNet was right to fire her over the way she handled herself.

Report on the fact that its audience rating is bullshit. Somehow a movie that opened on 500 screens has as many user reviews as Incredibles 2, and those people just happened to sign up solely to praise the movie. Don’t worry, a redditor already did the legwork: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/8s7dle/gottis_use…