My choices to save would have to be:

My choice right now would actually be either “Liz and the Blue Bird” (directed by Naoko Yamada) or “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” (Don Hertzfeldt). They’re tied with the live-action “The Handmaiden” (directed by Park Chan-Wook) for my favourite film of all-time, actually.

I would have definitely added The Owl House to this list, but otherwise it looks pretty good!

I miss the semi-canon intertextuality of the old Expanded Universe. It made it possible for some really wacky and amazing stories to exist and really let the “Star Wars” as a property actually feel like the grand mythic canvas of (everyday) heroes, fantastical worlds, mytho-historical events, and emotional storytelling…

Congrats, James! It’s been a long journey for you up to the top, but I’ve enjoyed your writing ever since the Observation Deck days, and I think both your boundless optimism and wonder about the amazing parts of our now-everyday and your simultaneous drive for making the things we love better through proper criticism…

I can’t help but be reminded over and over again of the similarities to the N. K. Jemisin’s “The Broken Earth” trilogy, both in terms of the similarly-rigid Fulcrum and in terms of how each character has to deal with the (similarly-complex) fallout from complicated, emotion-driven mistakes that shape their lives and…

This was beautiful, Beth. We’re going to miss you here at io9, but it’s so much better that you are pursuing your full happiness outside of it.

Although Falcon and the Winter Soldier had its fair share of small and major flaws (a number of which Charles mentions in the above article), I still think this is one of the - if not *the* - best and most complete products the MCU has put out.

No idea. I felt exactly the same way, though...

This is exactly what I love so much about N.K. Jemisin’s “The Broken Earth” Trilogy (The Fifth Season, The Stone Sky, The Obelisk Gate). While the plot is about trying to save the human world from total destruction in the midst of apocalypse, the story is about family, and grief, and motherhood, and identity, and what…

I’d like to also recommend “Dark Matter” as another one of those examples.

I’d like to float the idea of Mahershala Ali. I think he has the perfect blend of gravitas, wit, and charm to fit the role (not to mention a beautifully cool and collected speaking voice, to boot). In addition to that, he has the right stature and poise for Thrawn and seems to enjoy genre roles quite a bit (he was in…

...I guess the worlds of Westworld and Game of Thrones wouldn’t exactly be the best environments for a “kids’ movie” to make references to...

Yeah. I went to NYCC back in 2013 or 2014, when the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation was there, and one of my friends had asked me if I could get an autograph for her from Gates McFadden (the actress who plays Dr. Beverly Crusher), and I was able to have one of those experiences. There was literally no one in…

I think this is one of the things that makes live theatre a really interesting experience as a counterpoint to film. With theatre, one of the big traditions is having the cast greet or mingle with the audience after a show, and in those settings the actors are just being themselves and aren’t expected to be like their…

Count me intrigued! As both a playwright and someone who loves “Spirited Away”, I’m really interested to see how this story would translate to stage (and would be really interested in seeing it if/when it makes it States-side.

I’d recommend checking out “Dark Matter”. It has similar setting/vibes to Firefly, but it has a much more engaging story, a more diverse cast (and I’d argue a more diverse/interesting/fleshed-out setting, too), and it leans much more heavily into the sci-fi side of things. 

I’m feeling much more “The Children’s Crusade” and “House of M”, centered around Wanda moreso than Vision. And I think it’s going to lead into a few major changes in the MCU - including the introduction of Wiccan and Speed, and the build up to a future MCU version of the Young Avengers.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier - “What does God need with a starship?”

The Black Panther film was all about legacy and what it means to live up to (or not live up to) the expectations and actions of the people who came before you, and I think any continuation of the series should have that same driving question at its heart. So I think the best path Black Panther 2 could take is to delve…