That was basically my read, but it was left open to interpretation. The real point of that scene was that despite all Loki’s machinations to acquire power (whether by seizing the throne of Asgard or by seizing Infinity Stones), he realizes in that moment that all of his actions were futile — the power he sought was…

Is it just me or is AV Club a little *too* obsessed with Ben Platt’s age? We get it, he looks too old to be in high school and also the movie isn’t very good. I think the 15th article about this issue really drove the point home. It’s not like there’s any universe, pandemic or no, where an adaptation of a Broadway…

Several elements of Holzauer’s strategy are here to stay, and the big one is the way in which he strategically hunted for Daily Doubles after building up some cash. The whole game just comes down to those three opportunities to double up, and they’re basically never distributed in the top or bottom row. Category…

The first episode of Carnivale takes place in 1934, and the last episode would have to take place alongside the first nuclear weapons test on July 16, 1945 (as visions revealed Ben and Sofie would have their final battle then). So if they brought it back for a revival at this point, they’d have to explain why everyone…

This is pure speculation as I’ve only rarely seen a movie in a theater outside of NYC, but it sure sounds like the general erosion of the social order that’s occurred all over Trump country extended to movie theaters in the pre-COVID era. Like, I’ve never experienced loud talking in the theater or people on their…

Yeah I always understood the appeal of Venom to be that he’s like a General Zod or Reverse-Flash type villain, with the same basic power set as the hero, except they use those powers for evil.

I just don’t get the decades-long resistance to giving the people what they want, and doing a prestige television Batman series with nice production values and serialized storylines. Audiences want to see a fully realized live-action Batman doing his week-to-week work, rather than only foiling plots to blow up all of G…

In fairness, this exchange happened in the Overtime segment, it’s just that this segment got the most attention after the Milo appearance — you can watch it here along with a writeup: https://www.thedailybeast.com/larry-wilmore-schools-milo-yiannopoulos-go-fck-yourself

Just a few years ago, when Milo claimed he was concerned about cis men pretending to be trans women in order to rape little girls in bathrooms, Bill Maher said “That’s not unreasonable” with a straight face.

That’s true of basically every liberal talking head on television, but the unique thing about Maher is that as most of the left-of-center world changed their views on social issues during the 21st century (e.g. LGBTQ rights, racial justice, immigration, sexual harassment, profiling of Muslims, etc.), Bill Maher……

It’s also hard to, like, build a tiny TV set that’s to perfect scale of a tiny NYC apartment, and give the actors room to move around, and place all the cameras and lights and block many different scenes over the course of hundreds of episodes. The sets are built big because that’s just easier to work with from a…

They almost certainly have a trick up their sleeve when it comes to *when* this movie takes place. Neo was originally led to believe it was the year 2199, then learned that the Matrix had already rebooted itself six times, so it may be several centuries later than that. I don’t think we’re ever given hard info on how…

I don’t think it’s going to have legs. Before the pandemic I never thought about whether seeing a movie in a theater might be “risky” for my health. I think I saw the first Jurassic Park like six times in a theater the summer it came out. I still haven’t seen a movie in a theater since December 2019, even many months…

I mean, I have HBO Max, and I’m never going to see a movie in a theater while that requires wearing a mask. Would have totally bought a ticket in the non-COVID elseworld, but now I’m just going to stream it at home. From the studio’s point of view, I’m not generating revenue in this timeline. I think a lot of big…

Jon Favreau’s job was to make a CGI version of The Lion King that would make money. It made money. More importantly, Jon Favreau made money, and he will continue to make money that he can enjoy with his family. Why would he care whether it’s soulless? Do you care if whatever you make or do at work is soulless?

That’s an interesting read, but why do I get the feeling you scour comment boards waiting for someone to make fun of Al Gore?

As with last week’s episode, the exact point of divergence is unclear. It can’t be as simple as Dr. Strange inviting Christine to the ball, because in the prime timeline their relationship is depicted as fundamentally broken prior to the car crash. She couldn’t deal with his narcissism and arrogance; he was distant…

Not really, most of the serious candidates that resulted from the guest host carousel publicity stunt fall into the category of fully employed or employed-ish (Bialik has a sitcom, Rodgers is the starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, Burton does… something while collecting royalty checks for TNG, Jennings…

I always just assumed that, given the many decades they had to think about this, the brain trust behind Jeopardy had a codified line of succession similar to the British monarchy or the U.S. presidency. I thought they had a contingency for who would host Jeopardy if Alex, the announcer, the executive producer, and…

It’s not a height issue, it’s a screen presence issue. Height doesn’t really read on film, they could have worked around that with blocking and set construction. The real problem was that prime Harrison Ford had one of the most compelling screen presences of all time, and unless you catch lightning in a bottle with…