The story gets a little more interesting. It is more or less common knowledge in Chicago that the movie’s story owes half of its existence to Clive Barker and the other half to Steve Bogira, a local journalist who reported long-form stories about the city’s housing projects. This included a piece called “They Came in…

I enjoyed the first game. Alas, my plans to play the others were thwarted when Apple dropped 32-bit support. So it goes.

Ben Kingsley’s Mandarin was just about the ballsiest plot point in the MCU to date, so of course they’re walking it back. This franchise will never be subversive in any meaningful sense, but that was the closest it has come: head-faking toward some egregious Sax Rohmer nonsense and then delivering moronic stoner…

It looks like Marvel has decided to make a modern-day wuxia movie. I’m excited to see Michelle Yeoh and Tony Leung on the screen together. Has that happened since 1993's Butterfly and Sword? I’m probably forgetting something.

I’m not sure that such a thing can exist.

I am laughing my ass off. It will be especially funny if Peter remarries MJ right before he gets shoved out of the book for however long. All the dullards who have been whining about the Spider-Marriage since 2007 absolutely deserve for the book to get this stupid.

So can Batman, apparently.

My inner teenager is super jealous of this one.

He’s such a dudebro. I know he was ecstatic posting that image.

Jesus, can we all agree that Zack Snyder has no business deciding what is and isn’t “cannon” in the DC universe. FFS, the guy can ruin IP quicker than Michael Bay.

Collider reports Scarlett Johansson will star in a film adaptation of Disney’s Twilight Zone-branded theme park ride, Tower of Terror...

Can someone who’s been following the story more closely than I have take a second to explain exactly what he did? The pieces I read about it are always super-vague, and I’m not 100% clear on what he’s accused of.

Does this mean Hamlet and Horatio are gay because it seems to me that he’s way more interested in spending time with his servant buddy than Ophelia?

Despite what Mackie said, regardless of Casarosa’s intent, if you viewed Luca as a queer allegory—and, in doing so, it enriched your understanding of the Pixar film, and maybe even the way you look back on your own coming-of-age story—embrace that. You didn’t view the movie, or the series, or the piece of art wrong;…

He probably could’ve phrased it better, but I agree with the underlying sentiment 100%. It’s absurd that every male friendship gets distorted into a potential gay relationship, even when there’s no evidence beyond the relationship being just a male friendship. Happens with female friendships, too (see, e.g.,…

You missed the moment then, like yeah there was gore but there was also that sense of betrayal. Like here you are the viewer watching this kid’s coming of age story as a young superhero and his relationship with his dad and how they’re getting into their new father-son rhythm.

All in all, Luca is very good. It’s just missing a certain cohesiveness that would’ve made it great.

...the point of Brave was that Merida starts to care for her mother and begins to understand her actions. Her mother also does the same thing but with Merida. All of this only coming to be because of the Mother turning into a Bear.

Brave in particular seemed like it was gonna be a cool story of Merida finding her place but an outsized chunk of the story gets devoted to her mom and brothers turning into bears and all the madcap hijinx of trying to hide them.

Everyone involved wanted gore but also wanted to pack an emotional punch and not just use violence blindly.