I think this will technically be under the Sony umbrella rather than the DisMarvel camp, so who knows?

Agreed. Slumming, work-for-hire Spike is... okay, maybe not the best Spike (he did direct Do The Right Thing, after all) but definitely one of the more consistent Spikes, recently.

Four minutes and 56 seconds of that was exactly enough. I can’t imagine putting up with 90 minutes or more.

Annihilation has IMO some trouble sticking the landing (not as bad as Sunshine but nowhere near as good as Ex Machina) but the first 2/3-4/5ths of it contain some of the creepiest moments I’ve even seen in a film. Definitely worth it on the whole, but not without its faults.

The LOTR production was a weird miracle of circumstance that is hard to imagine anyone successfully pulling off again: Jackson was given a huge budget (by the standards of the time) and took that money and basically turned an entire country that was almost entirely off Hollywood’s radar (with an advantageous exchange…

A small postscript: it’s pretty clear that this film was cut heavily to keep it under two hours, and some of the cuts are perplexing. The bit from the book where tesseract travel is explained using an ant and a piece of string made it into one of the trailers but is nowhere in evidence in the theatrical cut. As a…

TDoWC2:TMW is such a great, sad film. It’s astonishing in retrospect that Chris Holmes is, somehow, still alive.

Having just seen it (and found it a perplexing mix of quirky auteurism and Generic Disney Product), a quick list of redeeming qualties:

Heh, fair, but... I dunno, pretty good? I went back and re-read it last year and it still holds up pretty well. His art was still a style rather than a collection of illegible nervous tics, and Lynne Varley’s color work is fucking fantastic: I feel like the entire digital-press era of comics has been 10 million…

In general kimchee doesn’t go “bad” per se, but there is definitely at least one species of gut-unfriendly bacteria that can colonize kimchee — this I know from painful personal experience. Absolutely by miles and miles the worst case of food poisoning that I’ve ever had in my life: it felt like someone was trying to…

Yunza also directed SOCIETY, a film that would regularly get mentioned in the same breath as THEY LIVE if only more than 10 people had seen it.

Oh god, “The Hot Spot.” That was not a good movie.

Honestly Miller and Claremont were just channelling the zeitgeist at the time. If you were a 12 year old boy in 1985, you were into ninjas. It was just the thing: there were _print magazines_ dedicated to the damn things.

I’m actually seriously relieved that Cosby didn’t rape Bonet — after the various revelations about his behavior it seemed like an unpleasantly safe assumption about why she left the show.

Would it be irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to!

That previous picture doesn’t quite convey the full horror. The white thing over his right eye? That’s not an eyebrow, it’s some kind of bandage. In fact he seems to have lost any sign of body hair at all, and I strongly suspect he’s completely bald under the hat:

We’re clearly not going to find out until he’s dead, but I would still love to know exactly what the fuck happened to Miller in the surprisingly short time between the debut of the first Sin City movie in 2005, wherein he resembles a more or less healthy 48 year old:

I used to think that Carrie Kelley’s Robin in TDKR was the most fully realized female character that Miller ever wrote and that it was sad he never managed to do that again.

It certainly wasn’t satire, but it also wasn’t as...broken as his recent stuff it. It’s very much an artifact of its time: peak white flight, Bernie Goetz, nuclear anxiety and gay panic. But even so: he portrayed Reagan as a bumbling fool blithely starting WW3 with the Russians, and the first thing that Batman does…

One of those extending 14' dusting brooms that people in McMansions use to clean the light fixtures in their entry hallways.