This isn’t Ken Jennings being canceled, this is Mike Richards using cancel culture to clear a path for himself in his bloodthirsty failed coup. Richards couldn’t possibly have cared less about an “ableist” tweet from 2014 (he said far worse things on his podcast and behaved far worse at his prior jobs), he just knew…

Dr. Strange and Spider-Man don’t exist yet — Strange is still a medical doctor (as the Ancient One points out in Endgame, his car accident occurs after the events of The Avengers), and Spider-Man is still the kid who runs into Stark at the Expo at the end of Iron Man 2. The Ancient One seems much less willing to get…

This is kind of an issue with the What If scenario, isn’t it? The exact point of divergence is murky. It’s not even clear if Hope made the initial decision to join SHIELD, or if Fury recruited her, or what other events might have changed prior to that. Since in the main timeline, Hope isn’t a SHIELD agent, that means…

It’s a fair criticism of the early MCU to say that it was silly and strained to keep showing events from the other Phase 1 movies on a TV screen in the background — this was a cheat to build a sense of continuity, at the expense of making Fury’s initial plan come to fruition too quickly, because he’s looking to build…

I think this question is fascinating enough to sustain a great Quiz Show type film in 10 or 20 years, after we have some distance from this. Because I think this is an excellent public example of the way in which people can often delude themselves into believing that others are rooting for their secret agenda. In…

I mean, maybe he’s not the *worst* guy, because they could always have hired R. Kelly, but he was one of the worst choices out of the guest hosts this side of Dr. Oz.

One part of this process that really irritates me, and I think it’s flown a little under the radar, is that Mike Richards supposedly wasn’t scheduled to be the guest host when he did his original run. He came out and was like “We had a cancellation, but aw shucks, the show must go on! So, if I absolutely have to be on…

In fairness, The First Avenger went to extreme lengths in putting Chris Evans’ head on a little guy’s body — that body was super little and not really man-shaped. I also felt TFA and Haley Atwell made it very clear that Steve was sexually invisible to Peggy before he took the super soldier serum. While I appreciated…

One thing that stands out to me that is there’s a counterfactual aspect to her claims of having missed out on $50 million in box office participation. Like, she can argue that the movie was tracking for $800 million in global box office in a world where COVID never happened and the movie was released in spring 2020 —…

It’s a different kind of power. Thanos would punch Kang’s lights out pretty easily in hand-to-hand combat. But Kang has destroyed entire universes, and maintains drawers full of Infinity Stones just for funsies. His control over time and free will itself is much more of a threat than Thanos’ ability to summon armies…

Sylvie’s murder of Kang does appear to be one of the most pivotal moments in the entire MCU, as it will unleash more Kangs (each of whom is more powerful than Thanos). I’m just glad one of the streaming series finally did something that will impact the movies. For way too long they’ve had the Marvel TV characters…

I suggest you not hang out with actual mob members in real life then — they are known to be openly racist and you might get triggered by their conversations.

So was this just a normal copy of Mario 64, valuable only because it had never been opened? Or was it part of some rare misprint where Mario is wearing Luigi’s colors and only 30 were made before someone noticed?

Clothes were much more expensive in inflation-adjusted terms at the time the barrel-clad hobo trope first originated. In 2021, wearing a barrel is impractical because everyone in the West has access to cheap mass-produced clothes sewn by Uighur slave labor, but back in the early 20th century a barrel was probably more …

My issue with Shannon Lee’s reaction is that she was 4 when Bruce Lee died, not 24. How much does she *really* know about how he behaved on the set of The Green Hornet over 50 years ago, before she was born?

This is pure speculation, but I can totally see David Chase wanting to tell that story, and being told by the suits “But audiences don’t care about Dickie Moltisanti, they want to see Tony Begins / Soprano Royale.” Dickie is mentioned a fair amount in the series, but never shown in flashback and never really fleshed…

I remember seeing an interview with James Cameron where he was talking about pacing in the first Terminator movie. He said that any time you put a man and woman on-screen together for long enough, the audience is just going to assume that they will get together — so if you let that tension go on too long before…

It’s not surprising to hear that this was blown off at The Root. One weird thing about this particular strain of cannibalistic cancel culture, wherein liberal-presenting celebrities in good public standing are torn down over silly things that happened forever ago, is that it’s totally driven by white liberals trying…

By that logic, having a bouncer at a nightclub is creating a confrontation every time someone wants to walk through the door, so even checking IDs and turning away people too drunk and/or belligerent to enter is right out.

So here’s the thing — Taiwan is really a country and it’s a silly fiction when the Chinese tell themselves it isn’t, which becomes even sillier when they force foreigners to agree with their national fiction.