In a way, the young woman excited to specifically see an Egyptian hero is an acknowledgement we are in the MCU world full of other heroes.

I guess you missed the two separate Rama-Tut (Kang the Conquerer) references then?

There was also a reference made to Madripoor.

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This reviewer keeps referring to “Asia” as though it represents a single culture. Please trust your audience a little more. This is the AVClub. We know that the continent of Asia comprises many diverse cultures. There are diverse cultures even within individual countries in Asia.

I saw an advance screening of it at Alamo Drafthouse and it’s just as good as the review says, if not better. Stephanie Hsu delivers a fantastic, kaleidoscopic performance. They really commit to smart, multi-layered comedy that builds and pays off too. So much live-action comedy these days is pretty lazy and quippy.…

This sounds a bit like Michel Gondry or Taika Waititi after pounding a 4-pack of Red Bulls (or the French/Kiwi equivalent). I am on board with it. I should probably check out Swiss Army Men at some point.

And another thing:

Like the Turning Red review by the same author, this is 4% movie review and 96% cultural criticism - which makes the letter grade a bit gauche, no?

White people LOVE getting away with stuff they know they shouldn’t, but will ruin their entire own lives trying to “catch” anyone else getting something they themselves didn’t get (although I suppose that other person’s skin color surely plays a factor in how batshit the white accuser will get).

I wrote a blog post about this very issue nearly a year ago. Tech companies are filled with Asian & White incels, for the most part. They only get along with others like themselves and machines.

The genesis of “Octopus’s Garden” and the family fun-time jam that erupts in its aftermath is one of the most joyful moments I’ve seen on film, easily my favorite 15 minutes of this film, and such a stark contrast to the manic, addled jam at the end of episode 1 after George quits.

I don’t really see it as a documentary in any conventional sense though. If you love this music, this the fulfillment of a fantasy, to actually go back in time and sit with these guys while they made these recordings. I have Goddard’s One Plus One on DVD and I savor every second of that Stones studio footage; it’s…

The main thing seems to be that Jackson is a total Beatlemaniac, and he’s made a series for other Beatlemaniacs, of which there are many millions around the World. It’s not a dispassionate documentary. He loves these people, and has surrounded himself with their music his entire life. It was always going to be a…

Considering Jackson’s previous doc, the excellent They Shall Not Grow Old, wasn’t bloated in the least, and that he did a fantastic job condensing the preeminent fantasy trilogy into films, I think bloat is a strange criticism to hang on him. He can certainly get lost in his meticulousness, which is a fairer…

I’m not a Beatles fan, but I really enjoyed watching this - the peak into the creative process of arguably two of the most important song writers of all time was captivating, especially moments like the initial idea behind “Get Back”.

I think every minute was in there for a reason, and I loved the fuck out of all of them.

I personally really enjoyed the minutiae and seeing their process. But I think what I love about this is that it reveals just how normal these guys were. They were exceptionally talented, musically, but they’re also terrible communicators for most of these sessions. No one’s ever really at each other’s throat, as…

I got about halfway through the first episode last night, and I think it’s probably best viewed in smaller chunks over time rather than trying to power through one full episode a night for 3 nights in a row. As my wife put it, this is a vibes documentary rather than a narrative one, it just happens to be much, much…

I’m a big Beatles fan and loved this. It probably was a little baggy in the second episode at least, enough that even I was feeling it drag a bit. But probably Jackson hated leaving anything out at all. It’s an amazing document, and what Jackson and his team have done to clean up the images and the sound is…