Did anyone else play an old PC game called Panzer General back in the 90's? It was a turn-based strategy game where you controlled a German army and tried to capture a bunch of objectives. If you did well enough, you could even end up invading the US. It had a direct sequel, Panzer General 2, and a spin-off, Allied…

Nick Fury, Cat Person. 

Avengers v. Thanos: Dawn of Justice.

It wasn’t until I took a History of Journalism class in college that I understood that the old “just reading it for the articles” joke was actually based in something. Like, Playboy had articles! A lot of them! From some really good writers!

I have to say, it seems like Josh’s characterization veers wildly depending on what the story needs from him. In the first season he was a (more or less) charming, well-meaning doof. In the second he was kind of an asshole. In the third he was pretty much a blithering idiot. And this season he’s...surprisingly…

It’s definitely a movie that seems to exist just to get you to watch another movie next year. 

It’s been my oft-contested argument that Iron Man 2 is the only genuinely bad movie in the MCU. It’s not always easy to articulate why it doesn’t work - for some reason, the screwball comedy patter that worked so well in the first one comes off as abrasive and unpleasant in IM2, for example. The SHIELD stuff feels…

That did seem like an appropriately Chuck McGill way of attempting to live a virtuous life. 

I won’t criticize anyone who’s dropped the show - it’s definitely not going on any of those “The 30 Best Shows Cancelled Before Their Times!!!!” clickbait slideshows.

Kind of a shame about I Feel Bad. It has some rough edges, but also some real charms.

So far as I can recall, NBC always ran some promo over the end credits - either a preview for the next week’s episode of TWW or for some other show. I never even heard the end credits music until the DVDs came out.

I’m reminded of a West Wing line:

Elizabeth Debicki’s time has finally come.

It’s not awful - nothing in it is terrible, and it’s basically watchable. There’s just a lot of stuff there that doesn’t work.

I never knew I needed Sexy Death in my life, but then I saw Ragnarok...

I was going to disagree with Tom’s statement about the MCU not making another good movie for three years after Iron Man, but...huh, he’s right. Thor isn’t awful, but I couldn’t call it good, and Iron Man 2 is still the only genuinely bad movie in the history of the MCU. Captain America in 2011 broke the losing streak,…

I can think of two times in my life where there was a sharp, audible collective intake of breath from a movie theater audience I was a part of. The first was the moment in The Dark Knight when Batman uses those trip wires to flip Joker’s truck end over end.

Of all the young actors who really got their big breaks on this show, Kit Harrington seems like the one who’s most likely to spend 15 or 20 years acting as though it was a huge embarrassment and smugly refusing to talk about it. 

She was 37 when Girls Trip - her breakout movie - was released. She probably has a pretty narrow window in which to work and earn as much as possible. Seize the brass ring when you can, I suppose. 

Cate Blanchett might be my pick for Best Working Actress, so I’m pretty psyched about this.