Seriously. If cell phones with video were as ubiquitous in 2001/2002 as they are now I guarantee you there would be a clip out there somewhere of me singing along to a super offensive song or doing a bit from some standup special I had seen that has aged very poorly. Everyone did shit they’re embarrassed of when they…

I’m a huge believer in death of the author and I think it’s totally fine for audiences to react however they react to a work without being judged for it. If you see queer subtext in a work, there’s queer subtext in it, and the opinion of the work’s creator is not especially relevant. What I think is weird, and mostly…

This is spot on. The only thing I’d add is that China’s behavior during all of this has been genuinely terrible (e.g. not cooperating with the WHO, concealing information about what they knew and when in the early days of the pandemic, etc) and that has been kerosene on the fire of the apparently bipartisan (and laced…

I think the Hunger Games series is a really, really great illustration of the “big budget spectacles are inherently low-brow” point that people like Martin Scorsese have been making over the last few years, and I think it’s a better example than superhero movies. With superhero movies, yes they’re for a mass market,…

I’m lucky enough to live near multiple movie theaters that show cult classic films regularly (e.g. showing Serial Mom at a brunch showing this weekend) and I really hope Blade Runner 2049 enters the rotation. Blade Runner is one of my all time favorite movies and I never though it needed a sequel, so I was a bit wary…

This is 1000% accurate.

I mean, Mark Millar is a huge fraud as a creator so I would not be surprised if none of the Netflix projects based on his work justify their cost. Seriously, look at this asshole’s career. The Ultimates hasn’t aged well and its influence on Marvel movies is arguably more from Bryan Hitch’s art than from Millar’s…

Uh, she for sure was not in Falcon and the Winter Soldier. 

I have 3 cairns left in England that are literally the only thing keeping me from 100% completion, and it’s driving me insane. 

Oh, so the new Rugrats show will be a wish-fulfillment fantasy TV show. That’s cool. 

Yeah I don’t mind making fun of Mark Ruffalo, or making jokes about Israel’s treatment of Palestine that have some bite to them, I was just really taken aback by how quickly the article veered into incredibly harsh moralizing. Like listing as evidence that Ruffalo is complicit in the US war machine that he... said…

What the fuck is this tone in this article? Like, it’s one thing to parse his public statements on this issue and judge whether or not you think he’s appropriately critical of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians (fucking weird for an entertainment website to decide that that’s their role, but ok!), but invoking a…

The Eternals have common elements with both the New Gods and the Inhumans, but I really don’t think the New Gods are comparable to the Inhumans in any way.

That’s a completely valid point of view. The one thing that would make me hesitate with Gaga is that if this producer is still working in the music industry (and that’s not a given) then she is 100% not the last person he abused, and I think that she has an ethical responsibility to name him in order to protect other…

So Queens is the same premise as Girls 5 Eva but just a different musical genre? That’s some real Antz/A Bug’s Life or Armageddon/Deep Impact timing. 

I am begging the AV Club to either stop doing recaps/reviews of SNL or put someone else on it. I mean no disrespect to Dennis but his SNL reviews just make the same complaints every goddamn week - SNL is too formulaic and repetitive, the jokes are too broad and/or overexplained, the political jokes aren’t sharp enough…

Eh, it’s certainly not Jaleel White’s fault that the writers/studio made the show more and more about Urkel, and amped up how cartoonish the character was, as the show went along, so it would be unfair for his cast mates to blame him. But you also can certainly understand how frustrating it must have been for the rest…

Yep. If she feels that he wronged her then the appropriate thing to do would be for him to apologize to her privately, at which point she can choose to accept the apology or not. I think that Me Too is long overdue and has been a very positive thing, but I think that this need that some people (mostly people who are…

Cautiously optimistic. No Cities to Love fucking ruled and was an awesome comeback but The Center Won’t Hold suuuuuuuucked. 

Yep. I signed up so I could watch Champions League games and clicked around to see what else they had - aside from a handful of older TV shows and B-movies that me go “huh, I’ve always wanted to watch/re-watch that one” I was deeply unimpressed. I will be canceling my subscription as soon as the soccer season ends.