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He played Gus Grissom with real humility. RIP.

The day I knew I was truly old was when I agreed with the Mongol guy that the open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at the wrist, and wind in my hair were actually best in life. 

There’s an austerity to Conan the Barbarian that I wish more filmmakers had employed when sword & sorcery flicks were having their brief moment back in the early-to-mid eighties. And one which I hope is utilized in the likely inevitable revival of the genre.

This movie is the ballz. I Am unabashedly a huge fan. A complete blast from beginning to final frame.  

Fucking Love The Guest.

It might look 4 million times more massive but we all know the camera adds 40 Gigatonnes of mass.

Hi, woke pedant checking in: Diverse is a word that describes sets of things. The cast can be described as diverse, for example, but an individual would not be, typically. If you mean non-white, that’s fine, everyone will understand what that means. Or, you could just not mention it at all since films and TV shows with

Directly from her first writer, G. Willow Wilson, this was probably a good call. "I think there're some characters who are very much set up for the big screen; they're very naturally sort of cinematic. But with Ms. Marvel, we really weren't interested in creating something that had very obvious film potential. [...]

If you mean how religions have made people sick and caused deaths, then yes.

I don’t know, I think the least they could do is release an album directly on to the phones of Putin and his cronies

That’s because there isn’t anything they can be used for that isn’t already being done with simpler technology.  

Hi! I studied Nahuatl linguistics, so I can provide a little color here! Xochitl means “flower” in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs.

Like, the guy is the quintessential cultural depiction of a bully. How do you do something like this and leave him out?

Yup, even though I’m a grown woman, I can’t forget that first time I saw Jurassic Park in theaters.  I was 13 and it blew my mind.

I rewatched Leterrier’s Hulk movie not so long ago and it was a lot better than I remembered.

I am. I love these movies. What can I say?  I’m a sucker for a dinosaur blockbuster.

Nah, I expect them to keep ignoring this one, since they haven’t found a way to spin it so far.

I agree with everything you said.

Do I think Hope/The Wasp could carry a movie of her own? Not necessarily. Is she/Lilly a charming match for Rudd? Totally.

I am going to try to be grateful for what a precious, unlikely gift seven seasons of this show was rather than dwelling on how unjust its cancellation without even an announced final season was.