Agreed, I think. Of all the things we might have expected it to be, it was none of them, and as the concluding chapter in a trilogy, that makes it a tough film to love (it was an especially odd choice to spend about half its running time trying to convince you that David and Kevin never had any powers). But if you can…

That was my initial reaction too, but I think it’s actually on Biden for using such ambiguous phrasing. Either you automatically get in or you have to buy-in, those are really mutually exclusive, so which did he mean? And, of course, had he the wherewithal, he could’ve shut it down immediately with an “I said…

It is bizarre how the reasons prequels “don’t work” rarely apply to any other situation where the ending is predetermined. And not just (based on) true stories either. We don’t shun adaptations — in fact, we generally praise them for fidelity to the source material. We go into most films safe in the knowledge that the…

Why is a shopping cart your go-to “important feature”? If you think the service is that bad and/or morally bankrupt, then the only logical reason you’d ever use it for is the occasional exclusive you can’t wait for, so one purchase at a time and no benefit from a shopping cart.

There’s also a further 12-part Beneath the Dark Crystal follow up series which just finished, although I can’t speak to its quality.

Exactly this. They should’ve taken the Spider-Man route, and gone with a distinctive look of their own instead of trying to replicate the aesthetic from a license they don’t have. I don’t even particularly like the Insomniac costume by itself, but it’s instantly recognisable as Spidey, without suggesting Tobey…

I’ve heard it’s for the preview you get when you hover over a thumbnail on youtube, which are stripped from the first few seconds of the video. It’s about making those look representative of an “exciting” trailer, instead of just showing a boring company logo or that green/red rating card.

Wow, that was a horrible edit on “bull-”. And if it’s (half-)presence was supposed to convince us that Apple TV+ content isn’t going to be incredibly sanitised, someone should point out to them that “bozos” isn’t a real insult.

Well, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage were all very well received, particularly in their first seasons (or the first half of their first seasons, which was the basis for most reviews), so it probably looked like a home run when she signed up.

The background may have been CGI’d in later, and there’s an anamorphic quality to the camera lens which means people in the far left and right of the frame look a little warped, but by all accounts they were indeed all there together.

To be fair, Snyder has kind of been leading them on (I believe he’s even claimed he did lock his cut, but that’s surely miscommunication or falsehood — whether by him, or someone else reporting his comments).

I don’t know about annual crossovers, but they’ve already announced the first batch of books that follow this. Hickman is writing X-Men and New Mutants (passing off the latter after the first arc), and the other books are Marauders, X-Force, Excalibur, and Fallen Angels, with a second wave of stuff coming somewhere…

It was two seconds of a scene that for all we know was cut in its entirety. But yeah, they could’ve just left in a random shot of a random woman in a random room — that would’ve totally fixed LGBTQ representation in the MCU.

Almost everwhere else. Avatar outperformed Endgame by a huge amount across much of western Europe for example. It made up most of the difference in countries like China, where the number of screens available to Hollywood blockbusters has exploded in the past decade. Also, as it stands Endgame’s domestic box office is…

Which is odd, because pretty much everything they’ve done is an adaptation. Wikipedia suggests they’ve only ever done two original stories (Munto and Tamako Market), the most recent of which came out six years ago. So, even if the guy’s idea had been stolen (probably not), he almost certainly targeted the wrong people…

I’d put Elton John on the plus list too — I thought he got funnier and funnier.

The Vinland Saga anime just started and seems to be getting decent reviews. As a bonus, Zack Snyder is not even tangentially involved.

Maybe he should talk to Dave Bautista. That man comes across as loyal as anyone (as evidenced by the James Gunn debacle), but he still manages to seek out interesting roles working with really talented people, instead of mostly coasting by on charisma like Johnson does.

There are three credited screenwriters on The Mummy (and no doubt many more uncredited), without knowing exactly which bits McQuarrie contributed, it’s hard to criticise him for it.

Personally, I felt like this season they crossed the line from offering some context or explanation for his behaviour into trying to make him sympathetic and give him a level of redemption, and he didn’t deserve it. The idea that El reminding him his mother was pretty was enough to not only break the Mind Flayer’s…