“They’re loud, hard to follow, with often uninspiring special effects. This inability to combine clarity with a grand scale is made even more glaring in Avengers: Infinity War, which takes us through the paces at least a half-dozen times.”

My running theory is that it’s about the gang discovering the secret origins of the Skywalker clan, which is to say, how Anakin was magically conceived by Force rape, and how Emperor Palpatine orchestrated the whole thing.

sucks all the cool—all the sexiness, all the glamour, all the romance—out of a downward spiral into debauchery.

The thing I remember is, our audience didn’t even hear the words, “puny god”.  Everyone was so busy laughing at Loki being throttled, it completely drowned out the words!

I thought Cap was kind of underpowered in The Avengers, or at least not back up to full capacity after having been frozen 70 years, but for me he had the scene that gets the best laugh: The one where the two cops are like, “What the hell’s going on?” Cap shows up and starts barking orders. The older cop says “Why…

Nothing says confidence like telling a woman she’s a nazi. They just melt.

I’m surprised there’s literally no mention of 00 in the article or comments? It’s definitely the closest spiritual successor to Wing except arguably it does it better by focusing on the complications of a commitment to pacifism. And its cast are less K-Pop boyband. Superior in most respects except for childhood…

This cast is not terrible, so I guess I’ll look forward to it until Netflix messes it up with a turgidly-paced 10-episode season of 63-minute episodes. In episode 10, they go into space!

• One, very into the idea of Cho as Spike. He can pull off the suits, and I’ve got faith that the dude can pull off the swagger, too. Needs longer hair, though, for sure.

I much prefer watching British Parliament, in which all the politicians are crammed into the House of Commons, a tiny space about the size of a banquet hall and are pretty much forced to scream at each other until something, ANYTHING gets done. (Spoiler: Nothing and/or anything gets done.) And I ESPECIALLY love it…

I think, with Akira, part of the issue is that it’s so centered on the way that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fundamentally changed the course of Japanese history. You’re not just transplanting a crime story or replacing samurai with cowboys.

The only example I can think of would be if you changed the setting…

The mask, while accurate, doesn’t quite work. I’m not sure if it’s the texture or the or the mold or a combination of both. It looks too much like they cut out the front of MCU’s Captain America’s mask.

Freedom speech exists as a concept outside of the US Constitution.

As someone who has read comics for almost my entire life I can say without a doubt, everyone is coming back. Even Vision and Loki(who were killed before the snap). Even the people who die in this movie because their contracts are up and they are done with the MCU movies. 10 or 20 years from now, Marvel Phase 7 or 8…

Money, fame, nobody telling them “no.” That doesn’t really apply to Raimi, but certainly Burton and Jackson.

To be fair, the schools don’t really need armed guards, and many schools have problems because of them; but the fear of school shootings, as truly tragic and horrifying as they are statistically unlikely, has driven parents and administrators to installing them, despite their frequent uselessness during actual school…

The world needs Tawky Tawny now more than ever.

It was a featured article at the top of AVClub two days ago.

Just want to remind you that the idea of the Treaty of Versailles being excessively punitive is, itself, propaganda. And from the Nazis, no less, who wanted to convince the world that Germany had been wronged.

Look no further than the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that Germany imposed on Russia the year before. It’s as…