Marvel’s new canon Darth Vader series have been pretty consistently great apart from sometimes dodgy artwork. They fill out his story between each of the movies after Revenge Of The Sith and are generally more cohesive than the old EU. The writers get to be pretty wild and twisted with Vader’s POV and life in…

When Yusuf bought the synthetic fruit pie at Circle Q I was half expecting him to praise its crust and filling, like a distracted villain in a classic Hostess comic book ad.

Honest question. Is “Take It Away” just not very good? It charted #10 in the US but never makes these lists.

That’s not really true. Truman’s desegregation of the military and federal government were driven by post-WWII need for combat readiness. And the Civil Rights acts under Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson were all helped by American white supremacy being strong propaganda for the USSR. In For All Mankind’s timeline the mo…

You motivated me to dig up Roger Ebert’s rant on the same topic, appended to his review of I Capture The Castle (2003).

I first saw that from a reader on a Roger Ebert Q&A, and he often complained about language or nipple based MPAA ratings keeping teenagers from movies that would enrich them. But the quote is apparently Sally Struthers.

They really held back with the teasers. The whole episode was so rich and inventive. All the animated marginalia and cutaways felt like living in the comics’ visual style, and every beat was so full of Kamala’s inner and outer lives. They have something really special. It’s a delight to see the characters and Jersey…

The trailer looked promising so I’m glad to hear it lived up. I like Bowen Yang but suspect he has more range than being constantly cranked up like on SNL.

See also hundreds of thousands of Covid dead when masks and vaccines were available. They kept their convictions right up to suffocating to death in a isolated hospital ward or watching their family die that way.

Your headline has an error, Yumi Nu is a 10.

I wasn’t excited about Lena Dunham but don’t think I can resist Bella Ramsey. And it sounds like it may be timely and smart.

Like a lot of things in 1982 Conan The Barbarian was a final and fully formed hurrah of 70's art culture. It has that auteurish, risk tasking, soft focus, unabashedly adult hallmarks of 1970's Hollywood when a low budget movie about ancient naked barbarians could have James Earl Jones and a lifetime achievement symphon…

This is only related in that I easily mix up the Jennifers from classic 80's dance movies, but I’m still salty that Jennifer Beals was cast as history’s most stunning Twi’lek only to get blown up.

The legendary and fearsome Golden Company crossing the sea from the Free Cities of Essos, led by Harry Strickland.

Dan Radcliffe takes on each post-Potter role like he’s sinking his teeth in the world’s most delicious cake. I’ll watch this just for him.

Stupid, stupid Netflix creatures.

Even before the Fantastics Beasts movies it was becoming the original novels played to JK Rowling’s strengths because she wrote about what she knew: British politics, boarding schools, classism, racism, general fascistic tendencies. Within that arena she could make sympathetic characters and recognizable villainy in a…

The big question, which they can’t have known would be so timely, is whether the alternate 1995 is still after a Soviet breakup. Space programs would have strained the USSR’s economy even harder but we saw in Season 2 that it strains the US as well, and they just had another Cuban Missile Crisis level near miss under…

I read the books and was dearly hoping they’d take some wild swings. The books tell amazing stories but have very few characters and most of the action happening elsewhere. It’s not cinematic. A radio drama would be better for a faithful adaptation.

What’s important here is that anyone who hasn’t seen Living In Oblivion needs to see Living In Oblivion.