I’ve been saying since I finished the previous one: age “the boy” up for the sequels, and do a Star Wars prequel thing, with Atreus as Anakin and Kratos as Daddy Wan Kenobi. Maybe even flip gameplay in the third one so you play as Atreus instead of Kratos, with the mission to kill your dad, lest he stop you from…

My order used to be simple. “Large iced coffee.” Thanks to the absurdity of every other order, I now have to specify, “Large iced coffee—venti, not the treinta—black, no sweetener, no cream, no straw.” If I don’t say that bizarre 14-word incantation, I will not receive a large iced coffee.

Tom Cruise’s ego wouldn’t allow someone who doesn’t need 9 months of training to get their nuts blasted, which is why he would be the perfect villain both on-screen and off.

Now I’m wondering if anyone’s considered putting Knoxville in a Mission Impossible movie.

Taking a cow to a McDonald’s is about as dark as a family reunion can get.

I wish there were more love for Ghost Protocol. For me, it’s the pinnacle of cool stunts that still have personality. There’s a consistent theme of creating tension from cool tech that isn’t reliable at all. Fallout is a real adrenaline rush and the absolute best when it comes to over-the-top set pieces, but I don’t…

I have a soft spot for the XTREME silliness of 2, but I was 14 when it came out, which was the perfect age for its ham-fisted nonsense. 3 is the only one I don’t think is worth watching, even with Phillip Seymour Hoffman. As much as I really like Fallout, I do miss the days when it was less unified. It was a franchise…

On most sets, you’d probably save this for near the end. There’s something oddly cynical about shooting the most dangerous thing first so that if Cruise dies no one wasted any time or money shooting the less-dangerous bits.

Yeah, it sure does look like there’s a nice little spot left for him on the bottom left of the end graphic to balance out the space April just took up...

I just don’t understand how Daisy Ridley’s agent can get her Star Wars and THIS.

For me, Casual is one of Hulu’s best hidden gems. It really jumped around between Flippant and profound.

Hoping for a “Not Penny’s Boat” version.

Yeah, I’m sure they have a ludicrous amount of data and focus groups and engagement metrics that makes the choice obvious to a board room, but it’s a head-scratcher to common sense. The problem with making safe data-driven approaches like this is that you’re—by definition—comparing to the status quo instead of making…

That’s what my brain did to the headline. To be fair, this seems equally plausible.

Hannibal and Fargo are two of my favorite TV series that I approached with much skepticism, but fell in love with.

That is a pretty ballsy title, especially since it’s perfect critic bait.

I think that’s where they’ve been going with their “choose your own adventure” stuff. Given than people watch netflix on just about any device with a screen, I’m doubtful we’ll be seeing anything much more robust than navigating menus to provide inputs (trivia, dialog choices, etc.) or single button input minigames…

Right? I’m hard-pressed to name a good zombie narrative that DOESN’T hinge on “people are the real monsters,” and that very much includes The Last of Us.

And that’s frankly been the direction box office gross has been moving in for a while now. It’s really rare that a movie has a lot of staying power and keeps making money for weeks or months like Titanic and The Dark Knight did. And now that franchises are growing so massive, I’m much more likely to see Black Widow…