I suppose the question then, is whether it’s completely irredeemable, or whether there’s a skeleton of an idea in there that better storytellers could do something with?

I think it’s had long periods of more surviving than thriving, but McFarlane kept it going anyway, and #300 is a milestone by any standard, so that brought a lot of attention back to the book.

You’d think so, but the 300th issue recently did well enough that he was able to launch three spinoffs (Gunslinger Spawn, King Spawn, and a crossover team-up book called The Scorched), that have somehow lasted a year so far and all seem to be selling pretty well. Oh, and DC signed up to another Batman/Spawn crossover…

Ah, Asian-American specifically, that would eliminate my examples. Although it still might be stretching the truth a bit (e.g. none of Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Ronnie Chieng, and Sonoya Mizuno are American, and I’d imagine that’s also the case for a lot more if I went through the rest of the cast).

[Crazy Rich Asians] was the first major studio picture with a majority Asian cast in over 20 years.

I especially liked the clever strategy when Adar fled the battle on horseback and was chased by Galadriel at full gallop, and then Halbrand, who left after them by a distance, was apparently able to predict their precise route, go the long way around, somehow getting well ahead of them in the process, and then double…

Why would they? Even if you think Dominion underperformed at the box office, the studio could hardly have reacted to that before it came out.

If I had to guess, it’s that Trevorrow is such an unimaginative hack that the dino-stuff that is in Dominion is literally the best he could come up with for dinosaurs take over the world. The absolute pinnacle of his creative talents is “What if you could use a laser pointer to tell a velociraptor to attack something…

Resident Evil? Underworld? You couldn’t be more wrong. These two should’ve ended before the first film.

I disagree. All three Worlds are atrocious, but they definitely get worse with each entry. I mean, Dominion is the movie Trevorrow wanted to make all along, about humans and dinosaurs co-existing in the world, he spent two whole movies setting up that situation, and when he finally got there, his true vision of what…

It’s not normal for movies of this scale, but Marvel have actually turned around a few films that quickly. Edgar Wright left Ant-Man in May 2014, Peyton Reed was hired in June, and the film premiered on June 29, 2015. Ant-Man and the Wasp, Black Panther, and Captain Marvel all had comparably quick turnarounds from the…

Completely agreed on point 1. As bad as the sequel was (not that the original was any great shakes), calling it “Now You See Me 2” instead of “Now You Don’t” is the single most unforgivable thing about it. There’s just no excuse, and whoever made that decision needs to be charged with a crime... any crime, make some…

Did you miss that Riri is debuting in Wakanda Forever?

Armor Wars? Perhaps, but the advertising is more important than the title — because who would ever go see a film called “The Matrix”?

You’d assume wrong. TV shoots much faster than film, especially big-budget film. Network TV generally takes about a week per episode. Marvel shows aren’t standard, so it would be more than that, but switching from miniseries to film probably leaves the shooting schedule about the same length, it might even be a…

Not impossible, but unlikely. Blade may well get delayed from November 2023, but Armor Wars doesn’t have a director either and that slot is only 13 months away. If they want to keep it, whatever’s gonna fill it needs to start filming pretty much immediately, so I’d say it’s more likely that something further down the…

Yes, directors have schedules. They’ll often have many projects in the planning stages — just look at how many films Waititi has on his to-do list (We’re Wolves, a Star Wars, Akira, The Incal, Flash Gordon, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Del Toro usually has half a dozen announced projects at any given time too.

The game skipped over months at a time of their journey. The show is filling in some of the gaps.

I mean, there’s basically no chance that it’s the same Wolverine as the one featured in Logan. It’s not like Deadpool was ever canonical with the Fox X-Men films, which already couldn’t keep their timeline(s) straight even without a fourth wall-breaking lunatic bouncing around (although refusing to acknowledge the…

The whole family (I presume) has strong “Is this done yet? Can we go now?” vibes.