Sorry-not-sorry for writing so much, but let me preface my opinion with this, because it’s relevant to how I approach watching these productions: I’m pretty busy and pick my shows pretty carefully to invest my time in, since watching them and following them on this site is my guilty diversion from my work. Other folks…

Counterpoint! It was absolutely perfect. This is a fairly trite comparison at this point, but explaining why it felt so wonderful feels like trying to describe a dream. (That smoking scene deserves an award for body language choreography!) There was a Sunday night in 2017 where I was watching TV and saw both a flying…

It’s almost like “cancel culture” has no actual effect, and the vagaries of celebrity are bigger and more arbitrary than a Twitter movement.

Hey all. Just wanted to drop in here and give a very sincere thank you to everyone who’s read the piece and everyone who’s commented below. I had to kind of talk myself into writing this, for a number of reasons, but I’m glad I did, and I’m deeply moved by the responses here—by those of you sharing your own…

Actually I’m MORE willing to see the film now that I’ve been spoiled.

Shuuuuuuuuut the fuck up.

You’re actually just wrong here. Having read the script, there’s literally no way anyone who watches this movie would come out of it thinking that Hitler was somehow a cool guy, just that Taika making fun of Hitler is an absolute joy.

And this is fine.

Him and Affleck seemingly having patched things up was the lone bright spot of this trailer. 

And to be fair, they say her Birch is the toast of Stratford.

I’m sick of all these limeys playing OUR superheroes. ONLY AMERICANS SHOULD PLAY AMERICANS. LIKE AND SHARE IF YOU AGREEE!!!!!

Trying to shame her for these things is ludicrous.

It’s nice to feel warm inside, even if it’s only for a moment.

Well that was about as awful, irritating, and unnecessary as you might expect from a Twitter exclusive comedy duo. The RT’s from wokefolks who need to remind people they agree with the points made are probably through the roof.

Of course Grigori’s dead. He died onscreen, graphically! He got thrown into a turbine and splatted! Did you blink and miss it?

Welcome to Jezebel. If there’s an opportunity to shoe-horn in some snark... they’ll take it.

Atomic Blonde, Hanna, Red Sparrow, Peppermint, Anna, Widows, Alita: Battle Angel, Kill Bill, Tomb Raider, Hunger Games, Alien.

it’s not a terrible leap from this, to banning women from driving.

I realize I’m spamming here, but this is how it starts. A poor woman of colour outside a dollar store. Some day they will come for the lower middle class single white woman who miscarried because she couldn’t afford to work only one job while hella pregnant.

The AV Club gets a lot of shit for clearly not having a competent editor on staff, and usually I’m not one to jump on board with that.