Feel that way more and more with each passing year, too.

I watched it in theaters Friday night, and it was my first film in a theater (not counting drive-ins) since 1917 and Birds of Prey in January 2020. So it was great to be back in the cinema, and the movie itself was excellent (a wonderful combination of Marvel and Jason Bourne) so I'm happy for its success.

The Dirty Computer film was excellent science fiction so I’m really looking forward to a book that expands upon that world.

And some of the genre fare launching on Criterion Channel next month:

“As reported by Deadline, the spinoiff series will tell the story of ‘how they put it all on the line to not only save their love, but the entire world.’”

“...and Fishback is best known for Judas and the Black Messiah and Project Power.”

This project sounds fantastic and I'm really excited to watch it. I was also glad to see that it includes a couple of women directors.

I agree completely! And that sentiment deserves a star, too.

No, I absolutely did not say that at all.

“Which is 1) patronizing”

“Shipping can be fun if done with the base knowledge of “My assumptions are almost certainly wrong but it’s fun to pretend” that a lot of head-canon stuff should come with,”

He calls homosexuality pure and beautiful. I don't at all think it's fair to characterize his remarks as homophobic. Not even remotely. He was expressing that homosexuality is great but it's also important not to place every depiction of male love, and even sensitive masculinity, c into the gay bucket.

I agree with Mackie’s larger point that fans should stop trying to read queer subtext into every close male relationship in film. People have been doing the shipping thing for a long time now in fandom circles, and it’s really not great. When there’s this push to say “oh, Frodo and Sam are definitely gay,” it degrades…

“I wonder what the explanation for why we’ve never seen or heard of any of these other Black Widows before now.”

I was browsing through my Letterboxd stats the other day, and they list out your most viewed actors. Samuel L. Jackson is apparently my number one — I’ve seen him in 41 films, and the runners up aren’t even particularly close. That being said, those are probably not the 5 Jackson roles I would pick as my favorites,…

Yeah. Plus in the case of The Abyss, it's at least available on streaming services (it's free on Prime). Solaris is as well. But neither True Lies nor Strange Days are available online at all, and as you noted, the DVD releases weren't particularly great either. It's a real shame.

Yep. Not available on any streaming service (even for rent) and there's never been a US release of a Blu-ray. So I assume there's some kind of rights issue holding it back, but it's very unfortunate, because it's a great movie that will just slip further into obscurity.

Well, that was written by Joy’s brother-in-law!

That was such a great science fiction film. It's a shame it's basically fallen through the cracks these days. Can't even rent it through streaming services.

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