Scarlett Johansson’s first MCU movie came in 2010. Since then, she’s done, by my count, 16 non-MCU films, though that does include voice work.

Awesome. I really enjoy this show, and I’ve been waiting impatiently for the third season for what seems like a very long time.

I love the moment in the Boondocks episode where it turns out that Wuncler is orchestrating a false flag terrorist attack to make a little more money, and the Jack Bauer character incredulously asks him, “Don’t you have enough money?”

Vulture had an absolutely scathing review of Candyman, assailing just about every element of the movie, from the direction to the script to the performances.

The quick 1-2 punch of the dirty cop’s name being David Duke, and it turning out that he literally changed his name to David Duke, was pretty great.

It’s kind of mind-blowing to realize that Archer Vice, Adam Reed’s first big attempt to shake up the show so he didn’t get bored with it, was season five, and it aired in 2014. 

“You gonna be OK?”

There might be a moderately interesting Disney+ series in how Thanos worked his way to the opening scene of Infinity War, but that’s probably just a case of over-explainy Star Wars disease.

One of Infinity War’s great tricks is that it has these awesome big damn hero moments sprinkled throughout the movie, and then it just brutally subverts all of them minutes later. Wanda descends from above to save Nat using her awesome powers!...and then it turns out that’s exactly what the bad guys want, because it…

The post-credits scene in Infinity War is the only time I think the whole Marvel stinger thing didn’t work for me, because it does undermine the catastrophe of the ending, if only just a little. People called the ending a “cliffhanger,” and in an external sense that’s true, but there’s not actually anything in the…

There’s that scene on Titan before the big fight with Thanos where Strange uses his powers to go through every version of the upcoming fight, and it turns out there’s something like 10,000,000 of them and the good guys only win one of them.

Random street-level superheroes sneaking into the White House every night to convince the First Lady to stitch up their gunshot wounds. 

Rebecca Ferguson seems like an utterly perfect femme fatale, I have to admit. 

There’s a scene later in the movie where Dottie and Jimmy are chatting on the team bus, and they get a shot of Geena Davis smiling at Tom Hanks, and I swear to God, she’s practically glowing in that moment. I mean, sure, beautiful woman smiling in Hollywood lighting, but man, it’s not easy even in that situation to…

For what it’s worth, Shoeless Joe was almost certainly guilty.

I liked his take on Gotham, which pretty much mirrors mine (I use the words “gloriously stupid” more often than Wong does, but still). He was a pretty inspired bit of casting, and he seemed to get the show’s wavelength and tone pretty much from his first scene. 

It’s also fun to see BD Wong as this blue collar, down-to-Earth guy, after associating him with classy, intellectual types for so long. 

Yeah, I bumped on that too. I don’t know if it’s an age thing, where people who didn’t grow up with Clinton as President don’t remember this, but I do think it’s easy to forget just how intensely charismatic and magnetic a personality Clinton was — it’s been a long damn time since he’s been at his peak in that regard.…

I mean, “good” is probably an overbid. 

I’ve been working from home since last March, and my end-of-workday routine starts with a nice long shower at 4:30 or so. It feels sooooo good.