By the time Black Widow comes to a close, Natasha gets in at least one dramatic three-point landing accompanied by an extravagant hair flip, and within Black Widow, those beats work as jokes because of the movie’s self-awareness.

WB knows how critically maligned the first Suicide Squad is so it makes sense they don’t want to acknowledge that it’s a sequel, but I think blogs and news sites shouldn’t be afraid to call a spade a spade.

I would say that there’s a fairly solid arc running from Dr. No up through Diamonds Are Forever, with Bond learning more about SPECTRE in each movie...

Not since Todd Haynes made Superstar has a Barbie movie sounded this intriguing. Part of me is still skeptical that Gerwig is making this movie, when contemporary directors don’t get to make many films in their careers, but she knows that as well as anyone.

Elsewhere, Kevin Feige discusses “subverting” fan expectations with the long-awaited Black Widow movie.

Also, “My hope is that this also becomes a massive IP and a universe that can be built out” reeks of marketing buzzwords that tell me he doesn’t are about making a good movie first but a product that can be sold. (marketing degree holder here)

We’re both on team “fuck these assholes.” I don’t see any reason to coddle bigotry. But I also think that we would see fewer people latch onto right-wing fantasies if they had a framework for understanding their alienation in economic terms.

This looks more like “very hard trying” than “deliberate smarm,” but it’s still egregiously tone-deaf.

But it’s definitely not an excuse to blame “corporatism” to justify going out of your way to exclude others. “Geek culture” complains about not being respected but also wants to push back against growing the fuck up.

“What’s next for me, it looks like, is [an] Alien series for FX, taking on that franchise and those amazing films by Ridley Scott and James Cameron and David Fincher,” he said.

It’s been a long time since I saw it, but I remember liking Alien 3. I’ve heard about the various pieces that were supposed to make it into the final version and didn’t, but I thought it was a solid, effective SF thriller.

The first AvP movie isn’t good, but it’s not awful, especially for a Paul W. S. Anderson movie, and it stars Sanaa Lathan, like more movies should.

PBBBBBBBBBTTTTTTTTTTTT. Since when? When TSR games incorporated? When West End Games licensed Lucasfilm into RPGs? Wizards of the Coast? Jeez, they originated corporatizing the trading card g-...I’m sorry, I’ve just received word that Nintendo just blew all that to shit. Gaming’s becoming so corporatized too. Complain…

Rightwing crazies just make shit up constantly, and no one on their side questions their bullshit because the rest of them fall on them like a rabid pack of hyenas. But it’s the same bullshit for progressives, if you’re not constantly pushing for whatever the current standard is, you’re suddenly the enemy.

However, his apology mostly focused on his personal history of being bullied—framed as how “attractive ladies would just lower the eyes while the jocks or other socially vibrant fellows had some fun at another geeky nerds expense”

In retrospect, FF13 feels like the blueprint for FF15 and the remake. It builds on the continuous spaces of FFX, with no world map, and gives them a more cinematic appearance. Toward the end, it develops an almost open-world area. And its combat is more fluid than the previous menu systems, but it does not disguise…

Directors and performers often invent more backstory than they reveal to the audience. It’s a way to give the performances a sense of depth beyond the immediate needs of the plot, so that characters behave as if they have walked onto the screen with their lives already in motion. They may deliver their lines with…

Riddick is my favorite Vin Diesel series. The second one is an unholy morass of stupid world-building, but once it gets down to business there’s a pretty fun prison escape movie in there. And, at the very least, all the mythologizing comes with some fun Gieger-inspired imagery.

Bwahahahaha!! Finally maybe all of the people who weirdly keep insisting that Incredible Hulk isn’t an MCU film can let it rest.

They’re not really walking anything back that wasn’t walked back pretty much immediately. The “All Hail The King” short included on the Thor: The Dark World home video release established that there actually was a real Mandarin out there, and he was not happy at all with Mr. Slattery.