I rate it five bags of popcorn and five chastisements to Marty for not understanding the dramatic power of Gregg Turkington.

The use of the terms “slavery” and “cultural misappropriation” is very cringe, but not super unexpected for someone in the position of privilege Burton has. I’m widely antagonistic to corporate ownership of “IP” (and just that term in general, which is almost as gross as “content”), but I do struggle to find what of…

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In Twin Peaks, it was arguably a feature rather than a bug. Lynch has expressed that the Laura Palmer murder was really just pretext for exploring this weird little town.

So you’re saying that they *shouldn’t* cast Martin Sheen as Raiden?

Now I won't be happy until they have Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep voicing Kitana and Mileena. Thanks a lot, asshole.

Ed Thorne from RPS posted a preview that might alleviate your fears. 

I’m so excited about the expanded MegRyanverse.

But the lunchtime martinis balanced it out.

Reeve was 26 - and I’d very much call his first movie a “young Superman” movie, but that has much more to do with the script than the age of the actor.

Yeah, seems a reasonable assumption to me. It’s not a story about Superman figuring out that he’s Superman. By age 30, most people have established careers and social networks and lives. It’s weird to me that 30 somehow equates to Sam as young.

I don't think that's splitting hairs at all. While not an origin story, he was definitely a young Batman in that movie, still finding his way and learning his place. That's especially important with Batman, a character who typically has a storied career and a lot of different phases throughout it (case in point, the…

Definitely this. I remember a lot of talk about "this isn't the fresh faced year one Batman you've seen a million times before..... It's, uh, year two Batman."

Or the TV show Beef, where there are universal themes of class and impotent rage, but there’s a deeper layer of context related to the complicated attitudes between Korean, Japanese, and Chinese characters.

Agreed. If she wanted to give her Oscar back as a statement, more power to her. But it's certainly not a thing she should feel any pressure to do.

But where are all the Oppenheimer action figures!? Sounds like another case of the toy industry neglecting the market for boys!

Considering there are references to Kord in the movie and a Booster TV series in the horizon, I wouldn’t rule it out. It would totally fit Gunn’s style.

Because of those things you did to kittens on camera.

And on top of that, “Arab strongman willing to murder systematically to protect his borders” is an incredibly tough character to pull off just about anywhere, much less in the reductionist landscape of superhero stories.

A couple of decades ago, Black Adam was one of the faces of the “modern, mature DC”. Between bold like JSA and Checkmate and others, he was possibly the most recognizable face (at least among comic book fans of that specific time) of a subset of books that were ostensibly Authority/Ultimates Lite. There were…