I didn’t think Elizabeth Debicki was that good as Princess Diana - it felt more like a really spot-on impression than genuine acting, because I walked away from the first half of The Crown’s final season thinking that Debicki really nailed some of Diana’s mannerisms but wasn’t very good at communicating any real sense…

I think Disney’s confidence in the MCU, and especially in the Disney+ MCU shows, is very understandably at a low point right now. My assumption is that they feared low viewership and/or bad reviews for Echo and wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible by dumping it onto Disney+ all at once. I don’t know,…

So the major publishers will occasionally publish guidebooks that attempt to quantify “these are the specific superpowers that this character has” or “this is the official ranking of the 10 strongest superheroes in our universe, including how large of a difference in strength there is between #1 and #2, #2 and #3,…

I genuinely believe that Glenn Howerton should at least be in the conversation for acting nominations at the various awards for Blackberry but I would be shocked if he actually gets seriously considered for any of them.

I’m a bit unclear on what she wanted Netflix to do. It doesn’t seem like she’s alleging that it was a toxic workplace or that the work caused her psychotic break, so I’m not sure what an employer is supposed to do when an employee says “I am suffering from such severe mental illness that I struggle to hold down a job…

I’m sorry, but this (which seems to be the thesis of this article) is utter bullshit for two reasons.

I’m sorry that your dad cheated on your mom. It clearly scarred you and left you with some very strong feelings about marital infidelity, even when it comes to D-list celebrities who you’ve never met and have no reason to care about on a personal level. Fortunately, there are therapists out there who specialize in…

It is really striking (no pun intended) how the other four are just riffing and enjoying the experience of trying to make other funny people laugh while Fallon is clearly struggling to follow what’s happening and brings the rhythm of the jokes to a screeching halt when he does manage to interject. It’s the comedy…

Totally. Even though I think the overall story of the rise and slow fall of the New Republic in the new continuity makes sense it still requires a lot of characters we know and like from the Rebellion to either make inexplicably bad decisions (like Hera not mentioning the relevant facts) or to go from almost single…

I don’t like the idea of the New Republic failing so horribly because it means that Luke, Han, and Leia lived long enough to see their victory over the Empire crumble to ash and then died, but given that the sequels locked Star Wars into that path I think the recent shows have done a good job of explaining how that…

I loved that their hyperspace journey actually took time and gave the show some breathing room to explore the characters. That’s how hyperspace was most often depicted in Star Wars media until the sequel trilogy when it was depicted as basically instantaneous travel between two points no matter how far apart they are. 

I think “these are just disgruntled former employees who are making things up about me” would be an easier sell for her PR team if there had not immediately been several other ex-employees who are not party to the lawsuit coming out of the woodwork to chime in “yeah working for Lizzo is a fucking nightmare.”

This show is so weird. When it’s not afraid to be a little pulpy and campy, and when it centers Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer being a found family it really works for me, but when it slides into self-seriousness, and especially when it sidelines Geralt I often find it incredibly boring. I just do not give a shit about…

I’ve always said that this show feels like Hercules: The Legendary Journeys with an HBO-sized budget, and I think I mean that equal parts as a critique and a compliment. 

I have spent more hours of my life than I would care to admit on TV Tropes but I’m beginning to think that website and all of the very online terminology it catalogues was a mistake, because a distressing amount of film and TV commentary on the internet nowadays seems to be lazily, and often incorrectly, invoking…

I just really don’t think the Skrulls work as antagonists when they’re as new to the MCU as this. Maybe they were mentioned offhand or cameoed in other projects that I’m forgetting, but for all intents and purposes they’ve been in just one movie before this, as more of a plot device than as complex characters. As far…

Lots of replies defending Moon Knight! I apologize for impugning it! My point was just that a show like Moon Knight, unlike say Loki or Wandavision, is extremely unlikely to draw in enough MCU viewers to Disney+ or keep enough currently-subscribed MCU viewers who are thinking about canceling Disney+ from doing so to…

For one thing, the CEOs of the top Hollywood studios make so much in compensation that if they all agreed to take pay cuts that still left them in the top 0.01% of income earners it would be more than enough to cover the costs of everything the WGA and SAG-AFTRA are asking for. For another, no one is forcing Disney to…

I think their quality control has really eroded. Not like everything before Endgame was perfect, but generally speaking Marvel had a pretty consistent quality level considering how many movies they made in the span of a decade. Now I think there are two issues: bad CGI in a lot of Marvel projects and extremely dull…

It’s absurd to me how often people re-discover that having voiceover artists for animation record in the same room makes for better art. Like, it’s acting, of course performing with your scene partners is going to lead to a better performance than separately recording your lines at different times in different…