I think that this is not the only series that lost a bit of momentum by having a long break between seasons due to Covid. As far as the show’s cultural impact is concerned, the original His Dark Materials book trilogy has its adoring following, but there seem to be as many people who find them increasingly dense and…

I have mixed feelings about this. I want new DC animation to continue to exist and flourish, but I thought that the point of HBO MAX was that it should all exist in the same, exclusive streaming home. I hope that this does’t mean that legacy series like Justice League Unlimited will now start jumping around in…

This movie was severely under marketed, which only indicates that the studio had limited expectations for it under the best of conditions. Even now, I have heard so little about it that i have no idea if it is objectively good or bad, only that it underperformed at the box office. I shouldn’t have to go out of my way…

I like my Holiday Specials to be at little edgy, so I’m thinking The Blade Easter Special. I do think a Passover special with Moon Knight would be an interesting challenge given the odd coincidence of Marc Spector being a Jewish avatar for an Egyptian god. I mean, Captain America’s Fourth of July Spectacular is just a…

True, there are hardly any whodunit mystery TV shows anymore —and if there are, they tend to lean on the grisly crime side of things like Criminal Minds or Bones. Entertaining, yes, but not fun, exactly. If you spend a little time with COZI-TV or other similar B-list channels, you will find a host of old TV mystery…

I don’t think that Glass Onion qualifies as super low budget at all, but it is certainly not the kind of staggeringly expensive proposition as superhero or other adventure franchises like Mission Impossible for example. Part of the appeal for Johnson and Craig, as they have both said elsewhere, is that the whodunit…

Apparently, Namor was in the same boat as Hulk at Universal, and yet I keep hearing that a World War Hulk movie is in development, and Marvel Studios has found a way to make a headlining Hulk movie should they want to. One wonders why that is possible for Hulk and not Namor. One also wonders why the rights for Namor…

On the face of it, you would think so, but when the expectations and budgets are so much higher, and you start getting diminishing returns on your big franchise when you are really only a few movies in, radical course correction steps will be taken.

He did quite a bit more than script doctoring, which is obvious if you want to sit through both versions and pick out what is in one and not the other. Had he worked with Snyder (which is what was originally intended) the results would have been very different. Maybe not much better, but he wouldn’t have been blamed…

Snyder turned in a nearly 4-hour rough cut that had to be radically reshaped and shortened in order to be commercially releasable. He is not without responsibility for the theatrical Justice League being as messy and disappointing as it is. Other factors were nobody’s fault, but there’s blame all around for the…

I wouldn’t interpret this as some kind of permanent retirement announcement. It’s fair for him to take some time off for any reason he wants to. His career has been going non-stop between Marvel and all of the other work he has been doing. It’s a lot of money, but it’s also a lot of time away from family and travel…

I can’t imagine that even with James Gunn and Peter Safran favor, WB would double-cast Jason Momoa as both Lobo and Aquaman. Maybe in an animated project it would be OK, but I have a hard time imagining that Momoa, likable as he is, is the ONLY actor who can portray Lobo. And why should he be hogging major DC Comics…

He doesn’t tell us everything.

I think we have to accept that there will always have to be some kind of connective tissue in any Marvel Studios movie, however awkward it may seem, hence the appearance of Val and Agent Ross. I feel like Ross is connected to Wakanda through his previous appearances, and is somewhat obligated to be there. I’m…

If you have seen the movie, you know what it is, and it you haven’t, and you are heedlessly venturing into spoiler territory, you are being double protected from something that really was an essential surprise and you really don’t want to know going in.

And get Tilda Swinton and Dijon Hounsou in there too, because, is anyone ever not happy to see them onscreen?

I don’t think that there is any appetite at DC Films for reviving anything Arroverse-related, but the fact that Gunn acknowledged how much fan attention that Legends of Tomorrow has gotten is promising. It’s not that the show will ever come back, but the show’s offbeat, anything-goes sensibility is kind of Gunn’s…

Plaza is too big of. a name to have an innocuous supporting part who may never be seen again. As for Hawke, Bale, Gyllenhaal and Law, they aren’t comparable to her at all. Like Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford and Tilda Swinton before them, they had flashy roles that were not expected to continue, surprise Endgame…

You just named 4 Oscar nominees or winners who were in MCU theatrical films. Not a comparable situation. I would say that Plaza is not at that point in her career yet, and also that though streaming series are meant to be closely linked to the MCU movies, The casting so far has not been at quite the same level. This…

She is at a point in her career (The White Lotus, Upcoming Francis Ford Coppola movie with Adam Driver, possible upcoming Hulu series) where if Marvel is casting her, then they almost certainly will have more plans for her, whoever she might be playing. It wouldn’t be worth it for her to do it otherwise.