I don’t know. The water effects were nice, but when Godzilla made landfall it just look so fucking stilted and cheap. Points for economy of means, but it made Shin Godzilla look like Godzilla (2014). And I love Shin Godzilla, but it’s about the ideas rather than the realism.

io9 made this weird decision that Oppenheimer was not in its remit, despite the fact that it’s a Christopher Nolan biopic about one of, if not the, scientific discovery of the last century that most influenced science-fiction. Io9 covered this kind of scientific biopics in the past, so it was a really weird move.

Every film has a genre. How the site uses it is a coping mechanism to make up for personal inadequacies as it some to “nerd” things.

It is a well-known shorthand for speculative genres, or (at the loosey goosiest) for “fandom shit.” And in that sense it is easily understood and analytically useful given the tension in the Oscars between the vestigial values of the studio system and the current values of the franchise industrial complex.

The Oscars have been weird for the past few years, with winners like The Shape of Water, Parasite and Everything Everywhere All at Once in place of the usual non-stop parade of prestige drama. But the Emmys seem right on brand, with a slate of winners that would be right at home on HBO somewhere around 2001: character-…

It’s gratifying to see audiences take a chance on a film with subtitles, especially when it stars everyone’s favorite nuclear allegory and erstwhile eco-parable. With any luck, the strikes in Hollywood create a window where exhibitors are more willing to put films like this on the screen.

I’m someone who rarely goes to see movies in cinemas anymore, and sadly there’s nothing here to change that any time soon.

It is a weird mix of Mon Oncle, Franz Kafka, a phone alarm on Saturday, and a bag of shrooms. Comedy is probably the best word we have for that, so let’s go with it.

The original Ultimate line was a way for younger, up and coming writers to play with the toys of the Marvel universe in their own sandbox, separated from where the established writers and artists were producing stories with those characters in the main Marvel universe. It was a way for those younger writers to tell…

So the image above of Cage is how it actually appeared in the movie? If so, I get why The Flash has been criticized for shitty CGI. Obviously I have not seen the movie yet. I am experiencing Marvel/DC fatigue.

Counter point: Greek life mostly sucks. The people involved in sororities and fraternities wield influence on campus and beyond, through job market networking, in support of a social standard that everyone involved tries so hard to meet that it is only questioned when someone falls out a window or needs a fucking…

It’s mostly that the same bunch, for the most part, moved on to the next

Superior Spider-Man can both be a great execution and Slott’s high concept ideas can also be a bad fit for what Spider-Man fans have traditionally wanted from the franchise.

I liked it, I thought most of his run (except Carlie Cooper) was a lot of fun.

Perhaps I’m imagining it, but it seems like online Spider-fandom is finally coming around to Dan Slott. I loved his run for its high concepts and trollish sense of humor, but he took over in the shadow of One More Day, and the forums seemed determined to hate his stuff...or simply ignore it in endless arguments about…

Um, there may be a slight verbal ambiguity in the headline. Perhaps it ought to be “Marjorie Taylor Greene May Have Illegally Sent Hunter Biden’s Stolen Nudes to Minors.”

So it doesn’t confirm Venom is Harry, but Venom is Harry.

I was hoping that the dreary overcast skies after the Bahamut fight would be temporary. And I assumed the new lighting would be temporary because it looks like such an afterthought, as if the developers simply stopped down the camera for a day-for-night look. I’m fine with gloom as long the art direction takes gloom…

Nolan has been heavily involved in the development of virtually every screenplay he has filmed. He has a screenplay credit on roughly half of his movies, and he worked closely with his writers on the rest. Have a look at Tom Shone’s book, The Nolan Variations, for the details. The idea that he neglects the importance…

“Whether for budgetary reasons or reasons of control, studios now look at a screenplay as a series of events and say ‘this is the essence of what the film is,’” said Nolan, who famously hates series of events, in a recent interview with The Telegraph.