IMO, the whole thing about blood purity really smacks more of British class commentary than American race commentary. I think there’s a reading of antiracism in it that you can definitely back up with text, but I don’t think it was necessarily her aim when she was writing it.

I saw a tweet to the effect of “The Star Wars sequels were about how Star Wars belongs to the fans. The Matrix Resurrections was about how the Matrix belongs to me, Lana Wachowski”

Yup. I feel the same way about the Wachowskis as I do about Shyamalan: protect their freedom to take big, weird swings at all costs

For me, the comparison isn’t about style; it’s about career arc. The point I was advancing above was that with a big mainstream scifi hit like The Matrix, one might expect the Wachowskis to behave more like Nolan or Cameron, and on that front they would be disappointed. But instead, they’re just about what they’re…

Carpenter sidebar: what two were you thinking? I’d personally put The Thing, Halloween, Escape From New York, and Big Trouble in Little China on the “stone cold classics” tier, and I’d at least consider a case for They Live and Assault on Precinct 13.

Respectfully, I disagree. The Wachowskis’ work has always been bugnuts and deeply personal, and one time it was hugely commercial basically by accident. The early aughts is littered with attempts to make a Matrix without them, and those movies–Equilibrium, Aeon Flux, UltraViolet, the Underworld series–have all aged…

The real problem with Amanda is that she makes Daniel look so much worse. He already feels pretty pathetic, but it only gets worse when she pops up to remind you that right, Daniel could just be having a nice life with her instead

I’ve only seen the first one, out of order and chopped to bits on cable. I’ve kept up just fine. I’m sure there are some deep cuts I’m missing, but every time something is the least bit unclear it just cuts to archive footage

What he actually said is that if there’s going to be any Daredevil presence moving forward, it’ll be Charlie Cox playing him. That doesn’t necessarily mean the Netflix show is canon. Maybe they’ll say the broad strokes are canon, but specific things aren’t. Or maybe it’s all completely canon, in which case it’s…

I’m not a believer in sacred texts, personally. IMO Branagh’s are perfectly fine for the sleek, big-budget Hollywood fare that they are...though I’ll admit I do chuckle and roll my eyes at the thought of conventionally handsome Branagh trying to pass himself off as a walking, talking egg man

I hope this doesn’t tank Branagh’s Poirot films entirely. I enjoyed Orient Express, and I’m sure I’ll enjoy this one well enough when I watch it someday. I just need someone else to do the casting for him. Between Depp and Hammer, dude’s really had bad luck on these.

Honestly, there’s nothing to really be done about this one. Hammer’s part isn’t one you can really cut around and replace in post. And reshoots are pretty much out of the question, both for logistical reasons and for how much money this thing reasonably stands to make. It probably bombs, but from Disney’s POV making…

Hell, after Avengers dropped, Whedon was doing press where he flat-out said that he’d thrown out Thanos as a wild suggestion, and Feige had basically said, “Sure, why not?” There was never a driving plan beyond “single movies => teamup movie => holy shit we did it???”

I really loved it as a movie that explored the humanity of Bond by examining his past through the prism of his oldest and most meaningful attachment. But admittedly to a lot of folks, that third act I loved just came across as “British Home Alone.”

I’ll stump for Skyfall, personally. But Spectre is irredeemably bad, least of all because its twist is literally the ending of Goldmember

Amazon has been desperate for its very own GoT. Expanse has always had the quality necessary to merit the comparison, but it’s never had the audience it deserved. If anything, I’m just pleased Amazon gave it three whole seasons to come to some kind of conclusion, instead of pulling the plug immediately when season 4…

As someone who lives on the left side of the political spectrum, one of our side’s worst tendencies is our collective insistence that our shit don’t stink. For all our smugness about red states and blue states, I’ve had way more racial slurs hurled my way on the streets of New York and LA than I ever did in North…

I understand what Malina’s saying about permitted antisemitism in antiracist spaces. There’s a not uncommon sentiment I’ve witnessed that Jewish people, for all their history, are just another flavor of white. Of course, the thorny thing here is that sometimes that’s true and sometimes it isn’t. It’s a fun thing…

“I’m sorry, but” sure sounds like a great way to have handled this

I cannot believe that everyone is jumping to the conclusion that this is the Kingpin and not Tony Dalton’s Jack Duquesne, a character who has a personal history with Kate and a long comics history with Clint