The responses that say “so don’t watch it then” are missing the point. The present glut of remakes and reboots is a symptom of corporate consolidation. The studios behave differently when they are just one arm of a huge media conglomerate, and that’s what we’re seeing with Disney and Warner Bros.

Any kind of meta-commentary would have taken viewers out of the world of the film, by necessity, and would have marred the experience. The restraint directors/writers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein had to not include anyone in the film rolling a die is commendable.

So is Jonathan Hickman coming back for the X-Men event? Or is he well and truly done with these books?

That’s bad enough but that they’re also trying to do the entire Secret Invasion plotline and inexplicably dedicating an entire TV series to it is truly bizarre, because that’s even worse from an “explain to parents/grandparents” perspective (well maybe not worse than incursions but...). Like why layer that on top of…

I think the big problem is that people aren’t willing to wait for the buildup anymore. Phase 4 is basically Phase 1 again, where the MCU establishes the new generation of heroes and a lot of the complaints I’ve seen are about the lack of an overall story despite the presence of multiple long-term storylines and the…

Abercrombie is British. I just attribute the ridiculous misanthropy to that and enjoy it as a near parody.

The fact that you don’t think best served cold is a good novel means your opinions are kinda to be taken with several grains of salt

Re: Crowley you mean John Crowley? I don’t think I’ve actually read any of his work but I probably should.

But perhaps what you mean is “non-literary”? Because yes - everything that’s valued in literary fiction (which is not the majority of fiction sold, these days, note), like good, believable characterisation, having to something to say about the world or people, telling a good story effectively and/or in an interesting…

I just read the profile. The tone seems less venomous than outraged and less outraged than simply befuddled with the thriving sub-subculture that has formed around Sanderson. The author overextends in places, stepping between the reader and the story in distracting ways, but the core point is true: there’s a big part…

The first one is lovely colour and style wise, but all the female characters have identical proportions right down to hip width (except the lady on the right maybe has slightly shorter legs), which is kind of bizarre. Someone needs to use more models, frankly.

These covers are an obvious improvement over comic-book sex-appeal even a decade ago. Who remembers the short-lived controversy surrounding Milo Manara’s degrading Spider-Woman variant? Or that phase, before she broke into the industry, when Kelly Thompson wrote column after column about broke-back poses and other…

A group of 20 something’s take on Alien... Is this movie being funded by CW?

This might be fun. Alvarez turned the Evil Dead remake into its own film, so there’s a fair chance that he pulls off the same trick with Alien. I’m hoping for something pulpy and stripped down, especially after the sweeping scale and religious obsessions of Prometheus and Covenant. Back-to-basics worked for Prey, so…

The movie looked fine. Even the screen grab above that’s constantly been shit on since the trailer came out didn’t look near as bad in the theaters for all the shit it got on the internet the last couple of months. People just need to stop being jaded assholes all the time and enjoy things

I know I’ve heard it multiple times, but I for the life of me got literally ZERO Star Wars out of this film. I can’t at all understand why people are saying this. Help?

Quantumania had the usual MCU problem: it’s a fun comedy carrying a bad action movie on its back.

It really made a difference in the way non-comics fans saw the character. He was basically a Universal monster but a hero who was loyal to his friends and humanity in general.

When people talk about Hellboy as having heart or emotional depth, they’re talking about the Perlman/Del Toro version. Some of that brushed off on the comics version, but the character in the early comics is more of a generic comic book tough guy, with very little in the way of sentimentality (e.g., his foster dad is…

Hellboy II feels like a million years ago. It never really had much chance against The Dark Knight and Iron Man, but it charted this quirky path between their extremes of portent and camp. There is virtually nothing like it in the current superhero genre, although James Gunn and Taika Waititi are trying awfully hard.