The Dark World so needlessly undermines itself by 1) giving so much of the movie the color filter of a burned coffee pot, and 2) somehow giving Malekith and the Dark Elves the emotional energy of a burned coffee pot.

Loki variants have the added strangeness that our Loki is a Frost Giant given Asgardian form by Odin. So were Sylvie, Richard Grant, Alligator etc all likewise converted Frost Giants, or multiple species? Are they all so different because they all got transformed differently? If basically any creature could be adopted…

Also Layla / Tewaret trading off Layla’s body between terrified archeologist and hippo goddess having a Best Day Ever.

Correction,

Maybe this is an earlier Ching Shi who stayed out of the history books.

She’s not A-list herself, but Letitia Wright seems to have been a case of Marvel/Disney successfully getting an actor to 1) stop talking publicly, 2) not fatally infect anyone else on the Wakanda Forever set, and 3) deliver a strong lead performance on an A-list movie. It helps if you’re willing to listen to Don…

To go full circle they should release a retro E-Wing Astromech figure with a head that looks like a film accurate R2-D2.

The E-wing astromech’s head is modeled after the original R2-D2 action figure’s head, which never looked like R2-D2. Through all three original movies they kept releasing R2-D2 figures with this face.

It’s great to get details from back before there was no mainstream press or fan community for these films. And seeing these people who have no blueprint for making a great Star Trek movie and don’t know they’re going to succeed. Nicholas Meyer had only been writing and directing for a few years and he leaned on the…

A lot of the pro/con of the Yuuzhan Vong are a matter of taste. Unbeatable assimilating bondage race (but all biological so NOT the Borg) whose swath of apocalyptic destruction render the original movies’ victories irrelevant. Someone who liked it might describe it differently.

This video recap of Sabine’s life story is both enjoyable and establishes much more clearly why she doesn’t want to be a public figure. Short version she’s got massive war trauma and guilt.

And that’s fine. Retcons to make a better story or adapt to out of control changes happen all the time.

A detail I liked was how the severed HK droid heads and Sabine’s armor pieces all felt very heavy. Lifted with effort and set down with a solid THUNK. It made the FX and set dressing feel more tactile.

“Would you take this 10-minute satisfaction survey about the website you just arrived at?”

As a San Francisco resident I can assert that even if you hadn’t drunk Anchor Steam in a while you miss it when it’s gone. There aren’t a lot of amber lagers out there and when it’s on tap it’s more reliably enjoyable than the other taps’ brotastic IPAs.

I had the good fortune to live in Portland in the 90's and enter legal drinking age just as the craft brewing renaissance was in full swing.

Simple, they should convert their offices to retail shops for $899 juice bag squeezers. I tell you this guy’s got that Elon Level Genius.

You’re not thinking like a rock star. THERE IS NO OTHER HALF. It was the next visionary step from 1980's Half Shirt and Half Pants.

For a set of HBO subscribers and their latchkey kids it started with the “5th Annual Young Comedians Showcase” in 1980 hosted by Carl Reiner. Pee-Wee Herman arrives fully formed. A year later we got the classic special with Mombi and Cap’n Carl.

She had a whole album “No Veteran Dies Alone” ready to publish and tour for when her son died last year. I dearly hope it gets a proper release.