Someone has written that crossover fanfic. The tesseract is an ancient Norse artifact, after all. They might as well have collaborated.

You could try Welcome to the Desert of the Real, or Parallax View. Though, honestly, the easiest gateway is the media criticism documentaries he did, Pervert’s Guide to Cinema and Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, since they’re using popular, accessible movies as points of discussion.

The correct answer is Slavoj Žižek.

Sure, and there’s the opposite: it’s been 5 years of desolation. Infrastructure has been totally decimated, the capacity for food production has atrophied, medical services and utility coverage and transit access and housing supply have contracted to reflect a smaller population.

And, as both Spider-Verse and GotG3 make clear: multiversal variants aren’t the same person. That’s what “variant” means. A character coming back that way DOES make their death permanent: the time-displaced Gamora is not the same Gamora who died. Alternate versions of Peter or Miles aren’t the same individuals. It’s…

I’ve been thinking something similar: why are multiverse stories so big right now? And I agree, it feels like our current reality is this fractured, arbitrary thing. Everything is going badly, and every couple of days or weeks there’s some event that feels entirely preventable or changeable, or some outcome in our…

A lot of bad faith arguments in this article, for sure. But the most egregious is the classic: “death not being permanent makes storytelling weightless and impossible.” That’s just comics, full stop. And they’ve been doing it for literally several decades.

Un homme entend frapper à la porte et est abattu. Tu penses ça de moi? Non! Je suis celui qui frappe!

Exactly, all of this. I was pretty amazed they found a way to get there: the surprise antagonist literally weaponizes the canon to disenfranchise a Black Spider-Man.

Right, could be, but a lot of the focus of this discourse is her “coming out” scene with Capt. Stacy. Which is something she’d have already done, presumably years ago: her father already uses she/her pronouns, already is affirming of her gender expression. If Gwen is a trans woman, he already knows!

I personally am trans, so I’m primed to look for it. But yeah, the argument that Gwen is personally trans is not compelling.

Mike Flanagan is probably the best thing to happen to horror that either literally is or simply feels like a Stephen King story. He turned Doctor Sleep into a good movie, Gerald’s Game into a good movie. The former even nails the themes King wanted but that Kubrick ignored in The Shining.

Correct. I’m positive this is just to lure in early-adopters willing to drop $3500 on an untested product.

“[Person’s name], [description of their accolades], dead at [current age]”

A fake persona designed to make money is the SAFEST option.

Yes. It could cost $309k or eleventy-billion dollars or $20 and a pack of smokes, and it wouldn’t make a difference.

Or Tom yum goong (The Protector) (2005), which slaps.

Writers are definitely working on stuff, like privately and in their homes. They just can’t do anything in an actual writer’s room, take development meetings for screenplays without looking like scabs.

Kendall is the cringiest of any of them, easily and consistently.

Any actor could decide to stop at any time, sure. I think there’s still immense will for Sony and Marvel to keep collaborating on these things. No Way Home pulled in nearly $2B.