He’s not really Immortus until he has that stupid hat.

It would be great if they got Trevor Einhorn back as Frederick as well, he was superb in The Magicians (and apparently Mad Men as well, though I never got in to that) and definitely has the acting chops.

Mitchells Vs. the Machines didn’t strike that balance between comedy and pathos for me. It lurched between the two like a first-time driver trying to park a manual-transmission Volvo in San Francisco.

I get motion sick really easily and the camera angles had me nauseous but I still enjoyed the look, especially the opening.

“the late-breaking, significant, unbilled cameo appearance by one of Soderbergh’s regular collaborators”

Agree. The character should be alternatively charismatic, sly, intimidating, seductive, etc.  She has virtually none of that.

The film also features Dann Trejo. That’s good!

It features Walton Goggins. That’s good!

Oh, yeah. To me, she screams “Lady Timelord”, not “Lady Loki”.

I’d normally be up for this story to go any direction, but at this point I want her to just be Lady Loki to spite half-witted articles like above.

Just to take your question at face value, you’re effectively conflating three different concepts into one. Namely: sexual preference, gender identity, and gender presentation.

It just bums me out how bitter he’s become. I can understand the root of that bitterness, but his thinking that his movies are just too high minded for Hollywood is quite frankly ridiculous. I remember in the documentary about Dark City that the first thing Lem Dobbs did to collaborate with Proyas was to inform him…

Alex Proyas is a good/great director. It’s a shame that, due to the failure of Gods of Egypt, he’s opted to be a bitter cloud-yeller who targets any and all blockbusters as “killing cinema” while he himself has made numerous attempts at exactly those kind of movies.

I don’t get the allure. Prequels seem duller for the viewer (we know where everything ends up) and more limiting for the writers (no matter what, you have to hit a certain end point). Rogue One is the best one in recent memory, and that’s at least partially because the main characters weren’t in the original movies.…

Mike, we worked together briefly in 2014 (I was an intern and assistant at [employer undisclosed in case you want it private] before moving into the library world) and I remember vividly when I realized you were the person writing these amazing articles. This was an excellent column and I’ll miss it tremendously,…

Thanks for all the great articles, Mike. I hope you safely return home.

I know I’m repeating myself but I think the message has been lost. It’s like if a series based on 1984 adapted the book in season 1 and by season 4 Winston Smith and Julia and special guest star Liev Schrieber as Goldberg are leading the prole revolution to take London back from Big Brother, all set to a Rage Against…

Thanks for all the wormholes, Mike. Maybe the true wormhole was the friends you made along the way.

Because that’s how the characters were like in the original comics, by the Asian-Canadian who created them.

If you’re not delving into the Castilian language voice-over credits to comb for clues, are you really even paying attention?