The craft beer market may be oversaturated, although I’m sure lingering effects of inflation and pandemic-related supply chain issues are also affecting these companies. Time will tell.

I’m looking forward to the movie, and maybe when I watch it I’ll understand some context as to why the nine-dash line is on the map, because either it’s a piece of agitprop that got snuck in there by a prop designer and never caught by editors, or it’s a plot point. Most maps don’t have maritime borders of any…

Tbh I think The Bear should be punished for category fraud. It’s less of a comedy than most dramedies have been. Which doesn’t mean it’s not funny. But, like, Succession (which can be riotously funny) doesn’t pretend it’s not a drama. The Bear is a great show. But it’s a drama. (I also think it blinked a few times…

Important to note the history of the blackwashing of Cleopatra in particular. She is a central figure to Hotep pseudo-history as a primary example of someone who has been deliberately kept from Black folks. It quickly goes down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theory because for someone to be kept, a shadowy group of keeper…

Hamnet was a good read. Notable for its almost exclusive use of the present continuous tense. “She is going down the stairs to the kitchen” etc. Which gives the whole novel a quality of floating. I don’t remember there being much dialogue either. So I’m curious to see how Zhao adapts it. (I’m also a little curious why…

Also worth noting that there’s a (very) small but existing QAnon presence in South Korea.

It sounds here like Chad Michael Murray *did* get physical with Schwahn, though.

There are lots of him, one of the hims created the Time Bureau but didn’t seem to have any specific powers himself, he can shoot energy beams if he has his special chair, and he can time travel if he has his special chair, which is only really useful if he goes to a period in time where his chair’s technology is more…

There’s a self-selection bias at play for the Audience Score, though. That said, yes, average audience goers generally like comic book movies more than critics do, but critics are valuable because they’re not average audience goers. Loveness seems to be taking it in stride, though. Hopefully he can learn from the…

I’ll add that gay representation (should only gay actors play gay characters) has a lot to do with the industry. There’s a pattern of straight actors playing suffering/dying queer characters for awards, while actual gay actors get frozen out of career opportunities/sponsorships/etc. and the default POV in movies is…

Unreported here is the suggestion by Gunn that actors will play their characters not just on film, but also in video games, animation, etc. Which is an interesting idea and also not one based in any understanding of just how different voice acting is from screen acting.

In other words, Neil Patrick Harris’ show Uncoupled got canceled by Netflix, and the man’s got two kids and is thinking about their college tuition.

It’s also important to distinguish between social movements (the #MeToo Movement; BLM movement) and organizations that share/co-opt the names of those movements (Time’s Up, Black Lives Matter — the org). Time’s Up was founded by wealthy celebrities, who may indeed have also suffered at the hands of sexual predators in…

The thing is: it’s pretty hard to generate sympathy for a *superhero* who willingly endangers the, uh, multiverse because they missed some quality time with their family, or because their secret identity got leaked and it’s fucking with their personal life. Even if you’re like “yeah that sucks”, it’s still an…

Word from sources at The Witcher is that actually he’s an asshole, too. Sigh.

You’re right that the ADL deserves far more scrutiny and criticism from mainstream media as an arbiter of moral justice or what have you. They have a long history of cooperation with local and federal police departments surveilling Black civil rights orgs, due to those orgs’ support for Palestine. They also supported…

Addendum: they are considered White now. But it wasn’t really until post-WWII when “ethnic whites” (Italians, Irish, Poles, Jews) were folded into whiteness.

Millie Alcock, while a fine actor, was no match for Emma d’Arcy. Once Allicent and Rhaenyra were played by their “adult” actors, the quality on the show became much better. I’d have nominated Paddy Considine, who was doing wonderful subtle stuff all season, if we were to give House of the Dragon two slots.

I wasn’t sure what she meant by this—it sounded entitled, honestly—until I read the full interview for context:

Spielberg, Field, McDonagh, and the Daniels are probably locks. It would be nice to get a female nominee! I think Sarah Polley has the best chance (name recognition; white).