Who hurt you?

The world will soon know for certain if Zack Snyder is a superior creator, or if (as his filmography spanning two decades suggests) he is a one-note hack who consistently misunderstands the source material he’s adapting.

It could have been done better, but I think just the concept of soft-remaking Khan went against the idea of creating an alternate timeline. Like, the benefit of the Kelvin timeline conceit wasn’t just that it allowed them to recast the TOS crew with younger actors, it was that their adventures were no longer bound by…

I found that watching the chronological version took all of the mystery out of the film for me. Even watching it multiple times in the intended, non-chronological version, I still noticed new things each time because the movie forced me to do the work of placing each scene in its proper timeline. Once this is done for…

A full reboot could tweak the rules too. Maybe instead of looking backwards, you could have a 35-year-old scientist born in 2015 leaping from 2050, and so a handful of episodes would take place around the present day, but for the most part it would be a near-future sci-fi show that develops a dystopian timeline which…

I don’t know what gave Harry Shearer the idea that it was okay for white actors to voice PoC cartoon characters — besides, you know, the fact that millions of people watched his beloved show for 30 years before suddenly deciding the practice wasn’t woke enough.

I’ve never seen the stage musical and I never will, but my impression from watching the movie was that this has always been a silly and horrible work of camp, and that the movie generally adapted that tone faithfully. Like, I can’t imagine what changes might have taken place in the film’s development process that…

The anti-mask stance is almost entirely a Trump-country culture war phenomenon. Trump actually said in an interview (only six weeks ago!) that he believed people were only wearing masks to express disapproval of Trump. There are probably some liberal individuals here and there who are resisting the masks, but I don’t…

That whole bit with the X-Men cast in full costume confronting Singer in his trailer where Halle Berry said “You can kiss my Black ass” — again, dressed as Storm — is instantly my favorite true Hollywood story.

Furlong is bad, but before reading this article I never really thought about how impossible it would have been for any tween/teen to play the role as written by Cameron. The script just puts too much on John’s plate. You’re asking a child actor to play all these contradictions simultaneously — he’s both a delinquent…

We all know there are no fans in the stands, and we know exactly why that is — this is like adding a laugh track to a single-camera show.

The schools should stay closed, but this whole situation has really sucked for working parents. Schools have never been closed for more than a snow day or two in living memory. Two-income households need the schools open so the parents can focus on work, and need to keep both incomes to pay the mortgage and buy food.

This current farewell book tour just has me really upset that we may lose Alex before the pandemic subsides enough to allow taping in the Jeopardy studio again. For the first couple months, when they were still airing episodes shot in February 2020, I was bargaining with the virus: “They can just move the podiums…

It’s kind of like how most NFL teams are happy to keep players who beat women on their active roster even after seeing video evidence, but then they make a big public show of releasing the player once TMZ gets a copy of the video weeks or months later. They view it as a problem with PR, not a problem with women being…

I’ve been watching a lot of post-apocalyptic movies lately, and each time I play a game to decide whether or not I’d prefer to live in that dystopia rather than the current one. We’re probably better off here than in the world of Mad Max Fury Road, because I don’t think I could handle constant droughts (although they…

I’m no fan of Marco Rubio and he deserves criticism for belonging to a party that explicitly endorses white nationalism.

When the series originally aired, fans always complained after each episode that “nothing ever happens,” unless a major character happened to die that week.

I agree and don’t think Stiller (or anyone else) should actually edit out the Trump cameo. There are obviously a lot of differences between the two things. No pre-9/11 director who included the Twin Towers in an establishing shot was trying to show some grim harbinger of death — they were a famous landmark, and…

On a repeat viewing my favorite detail is that King George makes a brief cameo to join Jefferson and Madison in gloat-dancing over how Hamilton is “never gonna be president” after the Reynolds pamphlet is released.

They can also just sit on these movies until it’s safe for people to go to theaters. If they dump them all onto streaming platforms, the theaters will open back up after mass vaccination and there will be nothing to screen. They’re not shooting any new movies right now that can be released in 2021, so all they’d have…