Oh damn, are you saying that a TV show known for mixing episodic and serialized narratives that is only 3 episodes into its current season didn’t answer all of your questions about the plot and character arcs of this season? That’s so weird, surely no other TV show has ever done that. I swear to god, no one on the…

Yep - in real life I know people who loved EEAO (like me), people who thought it was just fine, and people for whom it was not their cup of tea, and the discussions about it that I’ve been part of have been perfectly nice and reasonable even when we disagree in our assessment of the film. But more often than not when…

Some of these are legitimately bad but most of them are interesting failures, and there are far worse things that a movie can be. Hook unironically kicks ass and while it’s certainly not up there with Spielberg’s best it is definitely not his worst. 

It was always a very weird assumption to think that there was a non-trivial number of people who weren’t interested in a streaming service that had a huge number of the most critically-acclaimed cable TV shows of all time, a reasonably good selection of recent theatrically-released movies, a good library of classic…

As much as I would love to see a good live-action adaptation of New Gods, I really hope DC’s film team doesn’t go near those characters again until they have proven they can consistently tell stories that actually understand what makes these characters interesting. I do not want to see another take on Darkseid as a…

And if he had said that the reason he dislikes Pfizer is that he doesn’t support the Covid vaccine I’d have a much more sharply negative opinion of him, but we don’t know if that’s what he meant and I try to not leap to the worst conclusion I can about someone I don’t know based on limited evidence. Jordan Peterson…

People need to log off and go outside. Much like Chris Pratt, the things I have learned about Zachary Levi against my will (big thanks to twitter for defaulting to the “for you” tab every time I open the app now) make me think that he is probably not a dude I have much in common with or would particularly enjoy…

People can have whatever opinions they want and I think it’s completely fine if superhero movies are not someone’s thing - I have no problem with Scorsese saying whatever he wants about Marvel even though I don’t totally agree with him. What makes it stick in my craw with Inarritu is that he’s just so masturbatory in…

Tell me you’ve never read Tomb of Dracula without telling me you’ve never read Tomb of Dracula. 

The set design is gorgeous (you can really see that HBO $$$ in the costumes and period-appropriate cars/sets/etc) and the acting is pretty good, but I thought the writing was a bit of a mess. Not nearly as clever or compelling as it seemed to think it was. 

I haven’t seen Dark Fate yet, though have been meaning to, but I think its two biggest problems are (1) the three prior sequels to T2 sucked balls and poisoned the well for any future sequels, and (2) the first two movies, despite being all-time classics, might just not be capable of supporting a franchise. And that’s…

Is there... anything for him to do at the Wall? The Wildlings are all either dead or living in Westeros as refugees and the White Walkers have been destroyed, presumably for good since the Night King was killed, so there shouldn’t be any sentient living (or undead) beings north of the Wall anymore nor a reason for the…

Is there... anything for him to do at the Wall? The Wildlings are all either dead or living in Westeros as refugees and the White Walkers have been destroyed, presumably for good since the Night King was killed, so there shouldn’t be any sentient living (or undead) beings north of the Wall anymore nor a reason for the…

Oh yeah it’s definitely offensive no matter what, I’m just saying that unlike some of the other fictional races in Tolkien’s books where there are some pretty clear and offensive parallels to real life racist caricatures, this is a situation where the showrunners made an active choice to introduce offensive…

Of all the liberties with the source material that the show took I think “hobbits are old-timey Irish peasants who never bathe” was the weirdest. 

That’s true, I just mean that the show fixates on her brother Finrod’s death as her sole motivating factor in life but totally neglects that (a) Finrod himself had a pretty interesting life that goes much, much deeper than just “Galadriel’s dead brother” (b) Morgoth and Sauron inflicted a lot more suffering on her…

I genuinely liked it, but it had serious problems with pacing that need to be corrected in S2 (and to be fair I think the pacing issues got a lot better in the last few episodes). I would also like to see more depth to the characterization - Galadriel is one of the oldest, most powerful elves still living on Middle…

I think that an actor can disagree with Martin Scorsese or Marvel’s other critics about the merits of those movies (or even agree with them but still think that they’re fun, worthwhile endeavors) but still have enormous respect for and a desire to collaborate with people like Scorsese and Tarantino. Also, Aubrey Plaza…

Putting aside whether or not Will Smith is genuinely sorry or not (I’m not the wronged party so it’s not my place to say, and the insistence that rando members of the public have a right to judge the sincerity of a celebrity’s apology is to me one of the more bizarre cultural rituals around celebrity scandal), I think…

The 80s had a lot of terrible, insane movies that for some reason got big budgets and marketing pushes (I blame the cocaine), but they also produced some pretty incredible auteur works as well as nearly all of the cornerstones of modern pop culture, which I would imagine a guy like Tarantino would appreciate.