Good news. It was a fun binge watch a couple weeks ago.

I think we’re all better off just pretending that David Ayer doesn’t exist.

Honestly, I don’t get the sense that Marvel, at least, has any particular hostility toward the DC movies. I mean, there’s probably a bit of schadenfreude at seeing the other guy’s expanded universe collapse in acrimony and failure while you have the most successful franchise in film history, but it’s pretty clear the…

Didn’t some of the early PS4s, like, catch on fire?

My instinct with new consoles is always to wait a year for them to build up a game library and work out any technical kinks. You buy a console on launch day and there are a limited number of games you want to play, and then you just have a fancy-looking paperweight.

America: I don’t even know who you are!

From now on, all interviews can be conducted with the participants in the same room, but they have to be sitting on opposite ends of a comically long table like that scene in Batman.

My big issue was that, at a certain point, all the conflict disappeared from the show and everything just went smoothly on its merry way to a happy ending. I have no problem with the alternative history happy ending idea, but sheesh, throw in some obstacles. Will they be able to make the movie? Yes! Oh no, the movie’s…

Amusingly, his best season of AHS was Asylum. Undeniably over the top (Nazi doctors! Aliens! Beasts in the woods!), but it always felt grounded in the characters.

I thought Hollywood was mostly terrible, but it sure was pretty to look at. Sounds like this is more or less in the same vein. 

One of the advantages of working from home is that it’s easy for me to sneak away (you know, from my living room to my bedroom) and carve out 20-30 minutes for some reading. They add up.

I just finished Reaganland, which is apparently the last book in Rick Pearlstein’s history of modern American conservatism. Jimmy Carter doesn’t come off very well at all. I was born four years after he left office, and the general lefty view on Carter seems to be that he was a wonderful man who was undermined by an…

Dammit. I was counting on the next season of Venture Brothers to take the sting out of the first year of the Ivanka Trump administration.

Meanwhile, the decision to strenuously limit your inventory, forcing you to take time out of your superhero adventure game to manually break down dozens of pieces of old loot every hour or so, is another example of “throw 8 million turrets at them” thinking.

So many Bond titles are impossible to keep straight.

The Challenged Challenge Challenge?

It’s a fair question, and I’d have to go back to some of the reactions to Boyega when he first made comments about The Last Jedi during the publicity tour for Rise of Skywalker. But an awful lot of the responses from critics were less, “I respect Boyega’s right to say this, but I disagree with his take for reasons x,…

My hot take is that, whatever you call them, boneless chicken wings are better than the original, bone-in variety. Look, you’re only really eating the wing because buffalo sauce is awesome, and the traditional wing is just a messier, more difficult eating experience. And I want to push back on the idea that more…

I’ve grown a little uncomfortable with the conversation around The Last Jedi, which is a movie I genuinely like and defend, but which has sort of become a shibboleth used to determine if someone is a decent, mature, well-balanced person. I know that’s mostly the fault of the worst people in the world working…

Keanu’s critical re-appraisal and the celebration of him as a wonderful genre actor is one of the more bemusing developments of the last few decades in entertainment. When I was a kid, “Keanu Reeves” was not so much the name of a bad actor as it was a term used to describe the very essence of bad acting. Like, you’d…