I’ve been watching this (it’s already started airing in the UK). Like most compilation shows, it’s a mixed bag: some of the stories are better than others, and though the writers have done their bit to try to bring them up to date, it all feels a little old-fashioned. It doesn’t have anything like the wit or…

What I want to know is, does Kinja have spoiler tags? Because if so, I haven’t figured out how to do it yet.

You don’t really have to see the first one. Unless you’re a particular fan of Eddie Redmayne, or CGI.

“What makes somebody who writes for the Times a “real” critic, while people on Twitter who have read thoroughly and thought deeply about the genre are fans?”

*weary sigh*...
That’s really all I can say about this. What is it with Youtube/Internet celebrities and turning out to be assholes?
It’s been a while since I’d watched this series, but I used to quite like them. Oh well.

How does the line go... “I’m just like Oskar Schindler, we both made shells for the Nazis, only mine worked, dammit!”

Yeah... they might do the character eventually, but that backstory is just a bit too comic-booky. Or more importantly, Vision and Ultron are already being used by the MCU movies and won’t show up here.
Also: boy, this series *has* killed off a lot of its cast, hasn’t it? And unlike other comics, they usually stay…

*Raises hand* I’m going to be the annoying one who didn’t like ‘The Nice Guys’. It didn’t help that I came to it following massive praise from places like this; but I found it just an awfully generic and not particularly funny action movie, with nothing much to recommend it. Heck, I barely remember anything about it…

Great picture. That strip made me think for a moment The Punisher was created to be a pisstake of Rorschach, although it’s more like the other way around.

I always thought he had a kind of skeeviness about him, but maybe that was just due to his stupid haircuts.

“Rachel Bloom was a Youtube personality”

Somehow, I can’t see St Vincent ever making it as a mainstream pop star - she’s just a bit too offbeat and weird. But this video is a pretty good stab at it. Reminds me of the kind of stuff Gaga used to make.

Reporting this sort of thing doesn’t really help, but we all clicked on it so I guess it worked.

If we must circulate conspiracy theories about shootings, let’s at least come up with some interesting new ones. How about: all mass shootings are actually orchestrated by gun manufacturers in a bid to drive up demand for…

My favourite take on this is a British restaurant called ‘Halal: is it meat you’re looking for?’

Surely ‘Pearl Harbour’ is overdue a critical reappraisal...

That’s true, but on the other hand: how many films these days have any ‘long-term impact’? Modern Hollywood specialises in making blockbusters that are spectacular, reasonably entertaining in an inoffensive way, and forgettable. Usually the only time people keep talking about a film after its release is when the…

I blame this show for giving me a deep-rooted distrust of black people.

The New Yorker article linked here links to the Slate article, which links to various other articles and tumblr posts. Nothing here is new. We have always been mocking Thomas and Friends.

As some guy on a TV show once said, “If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.”

I’m putting an early bet on ‘Women in Black’. That seems about the extent of originality Hollywood can reach these days. (Although, possibility for brand confusion with a Daniel Radcliffe film...)