The Tom Hardy re-casting doesn’t seem like something you need to account for, to the extent you really need to account for anything in this exercise. It’s a casting decision that exists outside the narrative — it has nothing to do with the timeline or overall arc of the movies. Mel Gibson was too old and...let’s say…

Bill votes for whichever candidate is being supported by the last cute female canvasser who knocks on his door.

Have to give the show credit -- they get their episodes out every year, no drama. Debuted in August 2021, June 2022, August 2023 and now August 2024.

Yeah, if you don’t like the special, that’s fine -- comedy is subjective and all that. But “grim” is probably the last word I’d use to describe it. Hell, I was struck by how thoroughly normal and straightforward a stand-up comedy special it turned out to be. 

There’s a fun and interesting piece to be written about adaptations that seem to come way too late to benefit from good will around the original work. The Gerard Butler Phantom of the Opera comes to mind as the most obvious recent example, but Man in Full is pretty striking. I read that book and enjoyed it, but gosh,…

Reading the full passage in the piece, it does seem like Hemsworth is mostly referring to the first two Avengers movies, which I was glad to see. I thought he was really the anchor of Infinity War — he got to play all the disparate aspects of the character (the humor, the nobility, the low-grade pettiness, the sense,…

On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, one of my biggest issues with FO3 is that it had this really cool, really interesting, aesthetically striking setting of a destroyed DC...and then it forces you to spend hours trudging through subway tunnels. 

Yeah, there’s a sketch comedy cool kid ethos that says breaking during a sketch represents a kind of violation of a sacred trust between writer and performer and audience. And certainly you never want to go Full Fallon. But seeing a seasoned professional (and a very funny performer) like Gardner just absolutely lose…

Meanwhile, Josh Peck is just out there, showing up in Oppenheimer, desperately hoping no one confuses him for the other Peck.

There are worse candidates for Messiah out there.

The idea of Flanagan adapting The Dark Tower is so exciting that I’m deliberately adopting a deeply pessimistic attitude toward it ever happening. I don’t want to get my hopes up. I’ll believe it’s happening when I see a trailer for it.

I see Kevin Costner the writer and director couldn’t resist the temptation to have a much younger woman throw herself at the character played by Kevin Costner the actor. 

I can’t wait to buy this, then Google “how to start Shadow of the Erdtree” so I can learn the 17 obscure steps I’ll need to follow to access the beginning of the DLC. 

The only time I’ve ever actually felt drawn to a videogame character was Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins. Smart, viciously sarcastic, voiced by Claudia Black...she was amazing.

Better than the post-credits scene for The King’s Man, which treated the introduction of Adolf Hitler like Marvel teasing a new superhero.

I’m thinking she’s playing Abby’s mom. One episode, maybe two.

I was not expecting the Chloe Sevigny burn. 

There’s a character named “Churlish?” 

I’m never going to say that a game development company (or any other big institution) should be immune from criticism. If a game is crummy, then it’s totally fair to leave a negative review, complain on Kotaku, tell your friends, tweet about it, etc.

The original struck gold with the core cast in that fun way you see with high school-set movies where they managed to find a bunch of really good young actors who would go on to do great things. Rachel McAdams is incredible, Lizzy Caplan is great in just about everything she does and we’ve seen in recent years just…