i think the explanation is more mundane than garden variety sexism: Captain Marvel is, in my humble estimation, a mid-to-bad film that takes one of the most fun and live-wire actors of our age and wastes her by forcing her to play a flat amnesiac for three quarters of its runtime. when she finally gets a chance to…

it’s a shame Martin feels that way. IMO the original show was at its very best when it had a small budget and had to rely on character rather than spectacle to sell its drama

if you have progressive politics, imo The Good Fight was the only show that captured the slow, gnawing insanity of how it felt to live in Trump’s America. legal procedural trappings got it greenlit so it could reveal itself as a wonderful exercise in experimental prestige television absurdism, particularly season 3.

The…

he also discussed this last year on Blank Check

Shang-Chi actually represents the first time Cretton got to make a project about Asian-ness. maybe he could’ve made something sooner, maybe not. but when you set aside the potentials and what-ifs, the fact is that marvel was the first studio that let him do an Asian-centric project, and at a blockbuster budget no less

they’re not being made to do anything. they’re adults who took on jobs. and the work they were commissioned to make, while refracted through the Marvel house style, is still of a piece with their work outside it. the two latter Thors are absolutely of a piece with Waititi’s work. ditto Coogler, ditto Cretton. shit, i…

“made to sublimate their visions to the Marvel machine” is such pretentious dross

same girl same

also The Lego Movie

brb, putting on my clown makeup because this was a non-story with marvel in the headline and my dumb monkey brain made me click on it

Odenkirk is allowed to ad lib because he gives

counterpoint: this title owns

But Davies was doing that nearly twenty years ago with Jack Harkness

if only for the prison riot about George R. R. Martin

serious question, does it actually count as an anagram if it’s just the original name backwards?

what a godawful movie

they already remade it as Booksmart anyway

I’m gonna assume this is mostly because shapeshifting and stretching won’t look that good on a TV budget (hell, even the arrow effects in Hawkeye were pretty unimpressive). But even with your valid concerns about how well the themes and such will carry over...I don’t always understand Feige’s thinking, but I do always…

*spits tobacco* Bronco Henry didn’t work on indie art films

Eh. SKB was already N’Jadaka in Black Panther. And I’m not against reusing actors at all (#MadsMikkelsen4DoctorDoom), but I thought he just did such a perfect job there, unlike the relatively small and anonymous first appearances of Gemma Chan and Michelle Yeoh before they were reused elsewhere