....I have both a gigantic collection of comics and a (steadily shrinking every time I move from house to house) collection of vinyl...

Let’s hope that the vinyl comes with digital audio download code so that this incredibly niche project remains accessible to those of us who made a choice between filling our apartments with comics and filling our apartments with vinyl. I’m suddenly curious how many of the free-range obsessives out there do both.

Agh! I think DC is getting ahead of themselves a little. Most people are more interested in a Batgirl film, so I’m not sure why they would hinge Batgirl with Birds of Prey. But hey. I’m one of those people who thinks they should radically start over so maybe nothing will win me over.

The Enchanted thing kills me a little bit. Amy Adams has been one-upping herself again and again in things like The Master, Big Eyes, Arrival, Nocturnal Animals, and Sharp Objects, playing characters defined in part by their unnerving opacity, but people still ask if she’s doing another Enchanted. And, hell, it…

If a character in a novel behaved in such a venal tone-deaf way and then had the name Stankey, I would think the author had overdone it a bit.

Mangold is speaking from privilege. There is absolutely no shortage of storytellers/directors/writers creatives who would give almost everything up for the chance to work on a project of this scale. They also happen to not be white males...

They were still the anti-regulation, small government, and low tax party...

Ha. I thought it was a typo. I still think it’s relevant that non-sucky movies are landing on Netflix that fall into the same genre- and budget-category as Cloverfield. The fact of a streaming dumping ground seems more important than the case-by-case reasons that movies get dumped there.

I think the ‘thou shalt not kill’ part has a place in society. But generally, you’re correct.

To that logic we’d still have slavery. It was the religious right that saw slavery as a great evil.

I used to play this game during the draughts between the first round of PS4 titles, when it was a serviceable but bare-bones shooter. I probably haven’t played since 2014 and I think the only money I ever spent was for a couple of extra frame slots. But it’s cool to think that Warframe has been incrementally growing…

Cloverfield Paradox went straight to streaming because was steaming quality, period.

Those mid-budget movies do not get made because studios don’t want to make those investments. They want BIG returns and little risk. This article and the thesis broadly is fucking trash; corporate apologist nonsense.

dubs vs subs is the dumbest, most pointless argument this side of gif vs gif

I’m on team subtitles with a few exceptions:

This makes me wonder what Mangold would have to say about the downturn in theatrical mid-budget genre films. Those films are traditionally the home of ambitious directors who want studio resources without the baggage of signing onto a franchise.

Ditko could be kind of a crank, but his visual language was so quirky and original that Marvel never fully digested it. Soon after his departure, Spider-Man became a more strapping and less grotesque figure. And his version of Dr. Strange looks more like Edgar Allan Poe on a hunger strike than a modern superhero.…

Is there anyone out there who read the book, found it to be quite not good, then watched the movie and enjoyed it? Because I haven’t seen this yet, but I read the book, and it was borderline bad.

You would get essentially the same outcome as what happens in every Superman story where he decides restraining himself is doing more harm than good.

I have switched most of my comics-buying to digital because long boxes are such a pain in the ass for an apartment person. But many of the recent Marvel books have digital download codes in them. You can enjoy the print copy, pass it around the family, download the digital copies for posterity, and then every so often …