I’m fine with Christopher Nolan making movies that front big intellectual stakes (that don’t pan out) for the sake of a formal gimmick. Inception has nothing to say about dreams or people, but the way it nests action scenes is incredibly cool. Interstellar’s father-daughter relationship is mostly treacle, but all the…

Also, I will pay an absurd cover price if they release one issue in the form of a Tarot deck. That is the kind of nonsense that will get me to read on paper no matter how overwhelmed my shelves have become.

“Anthropologically, culturally, magic is an expression of wisdom and ideas that are developed over the development of a society. So Apocalypse is getting into these ideas of building a concept of mutant magical tradition.”

These senators should know that Liu’s comments cannot be taken at face value. Artists living and working in PRC do not have the luxury of expressing their political views openly when they disagree with the state. Perhaps Liu believes what he said, but perhaps the way that he is parroting talking points is a subtle way…

The real question is whether Tenet will have enough staying-power to earn money over time instead of raking in a huge profit on the opening weekend. During a pandemic, the opening weekend is almost certainly broken as a measure of success. And that might be a good thing, even if nothing else about this situation is…

The interesting thing about Forrest Gump is that it plays in one moment as an ode to the Boomers and in the next as a scathing satire. Gump may be an angelic cipher, but he’s also blundering through history. More often than not, Hanks finds himself on the business end of the film’s nasty editing, which punctures the…

I want to give this game a shot, warts and all, but it does not seem to be appearing on the Playstation store despite web articles claiming it’s out. Anyone know what’s up?

While I’m boycotting this movie, can a Disneyfied wuxia film really be worse than the Crouching Tiger sequel?

This film has me curious, largely thanks to the casting of stars from Hong Kong and mainland China. It is always a pleasure to see Donnie Yen perform fight sequences, and Gong Li can chew scenery with the best of them.

This will be the best gritty 90s movie of 2021. The visuals here seem like a judicious mixture of early David Fincher and Alex Proyas.

I can’t wait to see the character designs. The puppet sequences in Hellboy 2 were lots of fun (and a fitting homage to Mike Mignola’s penchant for puppet sequences).

Jim Lee has always been a corporate fuck boy, they had to beg him to leave marvel for image and he sold out to dc as soon as he possibly could. Liefeld and Mcfarlane might be ass clowns but at least they have some gumption.

I’m not sure DC becoming more of a content farm should be seen as worrisome — Marvel has done this to great effect, with really good storylines turning into, generally, really good movies.

Jim Lee understood this and was taking steps to move toward a different model for the industry, but the pandemic accelerated the demise he surely saw coming. I am concerned that this change in the industry will limit the variety of comics in terms of tone, age range etc. in the immediate future, but ultimately its a…

OTOH, with the digital comics marketplace, there’s probably more actual comics content being created now than ever in the industry’s history.

“It was about aligning the books to the franchise brand content we’ve developed and making sure that every book we put out, we put out for a reason.”

Release the Snyder Cult!

Not to mention that it’s a way cheaper way to gauge interest in a property, since the stakes for a failed comic are much lower than a failed multi-million dollar TV series or movie.

I assumed this was a way to keep producing content in case the pandemic continue to impact film crews. An alternate revenue stream that doesn’t require stuffing people in production vans and doing location shoots in New York and California must seem pretty attractive right now.

There was a large amount of hugely clunky exposition that could have been shown in any number of better ways.