This was great through I must point out that in Montreal they say going for shishtaouk, not shawarma. That line about Canada liberating the West had me thinking there must be a Canadian in the writers room.

I guess it's more likely in the sense that they couldn't strike without a mandate and now they have that mandate. But your general point stands. No one particularly relishes the disruption of a strike and a strong mandate does help put pressure on negotiations. My employer is currently staring down a strike by over…

I could do with an actually good Final Fantasy movie.

I was wondering whether this was a film adaptation of the play “Peter Pan and Wendy”, but apparently not.

The marketing is definitely bad. I was going to skip it until a friend who saw it told me it’s a fun family film. I would have passed on it based on the trailers.

I was simply going to say “I don’t like it” and leave it at that, but you’re absolutely right: it’s boring. And that’s why I don’t like it.

I, on the other hand, do not give Oprah the benefit of the doubt.

This was actually very interesting coming from an action director because I'd assumed for some reason that the reason action movies tend to be so long these days is because they have scripts written/paced for 90 minutes of dialogue that they then insert a bunch of long action sequences into. This was a good reminder…

Well that’s disappointing and a waste of talent. On the bright side, his Marvel role is extremely easy to recast. It helps that Quantumania was relatively small potatoes (and I enjoyed the movie more than most for what it is) and Loki is full of variants. We already have multiple Spider-Men so it's not like a whole…

This is why I assumed a resort would have people sign waivers, or at least have it in the fine print when you buy a ski pass. Skiing just seems inherently risky, like any sport, especially if you’re a beginner. The idea of skiers going after each other over collisions is something else, I suppose. It seems a bit…

I’m lazy and not rich so I have no personal experience here, but don’t ski hills make you sign waivers?

I begrudgingly admit it was better on rewatch with the updated chronology and some of it was actually pretty good.

I’ve seen both Shazam movies but got bored halfway through Black Adam and turned it off. I understand that it makes sense for the characters to be on screen together given their background, but the tone of the movies is so different I think it would have been really weird to mash them together. I mean, weirder than…

I suppose you could argue that they don't need to be innovative or tapping into the zeitgeist, just imitating what was going on. But I think your general point stands. This shouldn't be parody, right?

This is exactly how I'd describe it. And it is a pretty good movie to bring your family to see since there's not much else out there right now to appeal to a wider range of ages.

A shrug emoji is pretty much the only way for him to respond and stay sane, I suppose. It seems to me that audiences are genre savvy and have expectations tied into that, whereas critics don’t seem to have the same sense of context anymore. Which is fine, and: shrug emoji. It’s a shame for the AV Club to have lost its…

You know what's way more cringe than an actor with thin skin? A critic with thin skin.

I feel kind of bad for him. He's ostensibly playing the main role but is in, what, three scenes? 

That people take the time to make "parody" accounts like that is deeply bizarre.

I would say more than foreshadowed but maybe I’m just better at subtext than our friend here. On a sidenote, there were lots of audible "aww!"s of support in the theatre when it was made clear, which was a sweet moment.