She's not a villain for escaping. She's a villain for closing the door behind her. 

When something like Return of the King gets the prize for being the culmination of a series of genre films replete with technical, storytelling, and logistic achievements, I have a hard time arguing that Endgame wouldn’t also deserve something if it manages to stick the landing.

But T’Challa did catch Klaue, until Killmonger broke him out of prison. And Killmonger was working with Klaue. T’Challa knew all this, it should have been more relevant. 

Toast to Thor’s arc in Infinity War. All due respect to Chris Hemsworth, who played charmingly dim straight man in Ragnarok and then turned himself into a tragic hero for the next film.

Especially for the scene with him and Rocket, where he starts defiant—”You know, I’m 1500 years old. I’ve killed twice as many…

Agreed, I think there’s still a lot more to unpack about Spider-Verse’s approach to the medium than there is to unpack in Black Panther. It’s great, and fun, has excellent style, but it’s Big Themes are worn pretty well on the surface.
Did you catch the ‘making of’ with the directors? Really interesting stuff about…

I think what he means is that Killmonger wants to end Wakanda’s isolationism and “help” the rest of the world, or more specifically the African diaspora.

plus the whole queasy thing about a cia agent being a good guy in a movie about africa.

It should be interesting, and I have to admit I am especially looking forward to the ones on really, really bad blockbusters.

Another Breihan column! This is excellent news.

While Jordan’s Killmonger gets all the praise, I really like how T’Challa is presented in Black Panther. He’s shown as being less quippy than other MCU characters, which not only separates him from the pack, it also allows the supporting cast to play off his seriousness. Shuri, Okoye, M’Baku, and even Killmonger seem…

Something that doesn’t get brought up often enough about this film: Ever since Iron Man kicked off the MCU, he’s remained the franchise’s most bankable single character, to the point that all of the franchise’s first five films to hit a billion dollars included him. Black Panther is the one that broke that pattern…

Bravo on this series, Tom. It’s been a weekly highlight for me. Man, I can’t wait for the next one.

I’d point out that you’re misreading parts of the review (and, it appears, whatever aspect of my politics I’ve brought to it), but I can’t get over the fact that you think Octavia Spencer is in this movie.

Rockwell’s really cornering the market on “racists who are actually good people”, isn’t he?

Nuh uh, my brother in law is pretty confident no one is going to see this film because everyone hates Brie Larson for being so mean to men. He told me (on a 45 minute car ride that seemed to stretch for eternity) that if it seems like it’s making money, it’s because Disney is secretly buying up all the theatre seats…

He was Montana Max from Tiny Toons also, as well as the Stoop Kid from Hey Arnold. This guy would actually be an interesting candidate for a Random Roles... does this site still do that feature?

Already saw this last month

Another day another movie for people who want to justify why they still talk to their racist relatives.

When I saw Us, the coming attractions included an amusingly apologetic trailer for this movie, complete with interview footage of the stars explaining how so, so important it is for a film to confront racism in such a serious way. Among the black moviegoers in the audience, the response was very vocally “What the fuck…

You can Kranch if you want to. You can leave catsup behind.