I was going to scoff, but then I did a quick dive and apparently, Ledger was pretty prickly about Brokeback jokes, to the point where he wouldn’t present at the Oscars the next year because of Jon Stewart’s joke, which was pretty tame.

Isn’t this basically the approach that movies like the all-female Ghostbusters reboot took? “Go see our movie, and if you don’t, it’s because you’re a misogynistic dick who doesn’t think women should even HAVE their own movie.”

Women in general are such a massive part of the usual rom-com box office that one starring two men almost immediately carves out the biggest portion of your audience.  

I’m not Asian and saw Crazy Rich Asians because of positive word of mouth. If Bros is actually funny, it will attract an audience either now or streaming. Eichner’s also coming at this all wrong. Focus on what’s universal about the movie rather than shaming people into proving they’re not “homophobic weirdos.”  If I…

Brudda I think most people shares your buddy's viewpoints on Billy being off-putting and romance being aight.

billy eichner isn’t conventionally handsome by hollywood standards. I think he’s cute but he takes his shirt off in the movie and it’s literally the first time I’ve ever seen someone with a concave chest shirtless in a movie

It also has excellent parts for black and trans women! And it was funny and sexy. I’m not sure…

And I’m sure gay POC, women, etc. may not find themselves in this movie either.

I’m right there with you on Blacklist.

So you did not watch any of it but then made the bold claim of “I don’t know any of the current cast people who could take up the reigns” AND “late night doesn’t seem to have much of a future.” How could you possibly know either of those things if you never bothered to watch any of it? I’m genuinely puzzled about…

When can I preorder the leather bound print edition of The AV Club Reports on Don’t Worry Darling Volume One?

Pop stars have struggled to transition into serious acting roles since Elvis. Performing a musical act on stage is just a different skill set from performing as an actor in a film. They tend to work better playing colorful supporting roles, rather than headlining.

“I think the real issue around how LGBTQ characters are treated in the GOT universe is that they are always second or third-tier”

This is a great point and I think my only frustration with queer characters on (either) show.  With such sprawling casts they rarely get much to do (or else just when they are getting…

Sure, it’s definitely a more straightforward set of facts, although it does seem a bit odd that the kid could pull out a sword in the presence of the crown princess, and nobody (including her guards) would bat an eyelash. One would have thought that all petitioners would be disarmed before being allowed into…

Only Prinsloo comes out looking good in this. Unless she is claiming some kind of strong arming here, I don’t see how she was “manipulated”. She wasn’t working for him. He has no direct power over her beyond his fame and it’s her choice to be blinded by his assholery or not. Stroh is 23, she knows what marriage is and…

Book folks also state that incident led to bad blood between those two houses for years.

Cole and Lonmoth are both lesser houses (though based on a quick consultation of the ASOIAF wiki I believe Lonmoth might have been held in slightly higher esteem.) Criston, however, is in the Kingsguard, which is a position of extremely high honor - members forfeit any hereditary lands or titles, like the Night’s…

It might be, oddly enough. If you recall, in last week’s episode the young lordling who presented himself as a candidate for Rhaenyra’s hand ran another guy straight through with his sword, and nobody blinked an eyelash. Although it does seem rather odd that King Viserys would not have had his guards intervene to stop…

I don’t think anything about that scene left the impression that people were fine with seeing Ser Joffrey get “flat out murdered.”  There were weeklong wedding ceremonies planned, and instead the royal family held a quickie wedding designed to just get the thing over with.

People getting away with murder if they have a slightly higher position than their victim in the social hierarchy is, like, what this show/GoT is about. A knight of the Kingsguard beating a man to death is 100% fine as long as they can cite “Honor” in their defense. (Plus Queen Alicent has been handed a useful idiot…

“Ezra Miller Story Remains Precisely as Dark and Sad as Before, But We’re Contractually Obligated to Summarize Any New Variety or Hollywood Reporter Article on the Matter”