I don’t think the series can or should move away from the backwards-murder-mystery conceit. But at some point isn’t it going to feel silly that every White Lotus location has a dead body turn up under convoluted circumstances? It’s like how Angela Lansbury tried to take a vacation on Murder She Wrote, and then had to…

They’ve now spent several years creating bad content and introducing new characters that nobody cares about. It’s kind of hard to get excited about team-up movies involving those new characters. The MCU isn’t salvageable, because nearly all of the stuff they’ve released since Endgame is meant to lay the groundwork for…

So AVClub is just uncritically supporting vigilante murder and treating one of the conspirators as a feel-good story while the other rots in prison for life? What a weird article.

I think Jennings is implying there that the Sony brass considered Bialik’s decision to stand with the strikers (when she was not required by union rules to do so) as effectively abdicating her position. So depending on how you spin this, Bialik made a decision to quit or was fired for participating in another union’s…

I think the McCallisters were always intended to be upper-upper-middle-class, but we as a society were much less class conscious in 1990, so this element of the story received almost no attention at the time.

They should have built off What If and introduced a Killmonger variant from a timeline where he was raised in Wakanda and became the Black Panther after T’Challa died in childhood. And then had the variant get stranded in the prime MCU timeline, where he recognizes his cousin Shuri and auntie Ramonda.

The gay relationship is there in Spielberg’s version, the characters just never say out loud “Yup, we’re definitely in a lesbian relationship.” I don’t think 1985 audiences were confused about this point, as it’s pretty clear they are partners. Same for Fried Green Tomatoes, actually. Modern movies are just going to…

I doubt she was fired out of spite *because* she stood with the strikers. The whole thing with having two alternating hosts was always awkward and felt like a short-term solution until one of them pulled ahead and was named the permanent full-time host. The powers that be were most likely watching the ratings and…

Arafat would have been assassinated if he’d taken that deal, too.

That’s absolute nonsense. NYC is home to the largest population of Jews outside Israel, and they only make up 9% of the population. Yet we have no pogroms or concentration camps here. Jews don’t need to be a majority anywhere to enjoy equal rights. There is no need for a Jewish ethnostate.

“Again, nothing new to the Black and brown community.”

Yeah, I like the “Fury Road is a reboot” theory. Unlike prior entries in the Mel Gibson timeline, Fury Road makes almost no reference to life before the apocalypse, and it appears to take place much later in the timeline… even though Hardy is about the same age as Gibson was in the earlier movies. It certainly feels…

It’s the biggest superhero bomb of all time, so there must be *some* reason it didn’t connect with audiences.

I think Disney+ played a role in the box office failure, in that this was their first attempt to use the streaming shows to launch a movie. WandaVision and Ms. Marvel were required viewing to have any interest here, in a way that wasn’t true of past experiments like using the kids from WandaVision as a plot point in…

This was still manipulative stunt casting if the explanation was anything other than “he’s literally Quicksilver from the Fox X-Men universe.” The reason he was in town is totally irrelevant — if he’s not supposed to be the other Quicksilver, then this subplot is just a meta tease which doesn’t go anywhere.

Not terrible, but just imagine that very unique Aardman style of character modeling (with the big teeth being more expressive than the eyes), but done with 2006-era Pixar style animation instead of stop motion. It’s fine. It just doesn’t stand out much because CGI kids movies are a dime a dozen, and the tactile…

I haven’t seen it since it originally came out, but I remember it lacking the character of true stop motion. Plus it was pretty obvious they just discarded the physical limitations of stop motion, including these sweeping camera movements and huge sets that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise — which just made it…

Aardman tried that in 2006 with Flushed Away, which is CGI made to look like stop motion. But they went back to clay after that.

The Kang Dynasty should just open on a title card that says “Kang died on the way back to his home planet” and then the next 2 1/2 hours turns out to be an X-Men / Fantastic Four team up movie.

I agree that having the Fox X-Men cross over is stupid!