Too bad the movie/series in question wasn’t about trapping people in an unreal environment without their consent. Given the nature of this highly sketchy situation, that would have been a really neat irony for a pop culture writer to point out.

AV Club readers don't care about this tabloid sh*t.

Are we really saying this movie isn’t part of the WW2CU, a franchise that’s been coughing out multiple entries per year since before WW2 even officially started? It’s also kind of a remake of a Paul Newman movie. It may well be a good film, but is it really that original/creative?

Why does the Zombie AV Club recap freaking Claim to Fame episodes, but hasn’t yet reviewed this film?

I consider all three sequel entries to be complete failures on a lore level, so I don’t ding TRoS any harder on that front.

I mean, I like that idea, too, but it’s just an idea. It’s not even a significant part of her character arc, because not knowing her parentage didn’t stop her from going on the Starkiller Base assault in the last movie, nor does it stop her from asking Luke to train her at the beginning of TLJ. Kylo Ren tells her her…

Indeed. I’m still mystified by the love some have for TLJ, and I’ll still rewatch one of its video essay takedowns from time to time because I find them endlessly entertaining, but I of course recognize the debate itself became immovable and pointless almost immediately after it started. Yeah, some real a-holes…

Is today a day ending with the letter Y? Because, if so, the site's readership still doesn't care one bit about this show/recaps.

Who asked for these recaps?! Tasha Robinson must be rolling in her grave!

Although none of the posts appear to explicitly name Hill, several of the texts are labeled as being from “Jonah”

“The next chapter!” That certainly sounds like it could be Episode X. Or, maybe, episode numbers will be reserved for the Skywalker Saga and this will be something new entirely.

Hughes writing the movie may not lose money is him trolling us, out of pure spite, for all the grief we’ve given him and his fellow Keystone Copywriters over the years. It’s got to be. Not even he is that dumb.

Let’s see... the latest entry in a little-loved franchise in which the last five consecutive theatrical entries underperformed, starring an actor with very little name recognition (let alone popularity) in a double role, playing a character who’s never been popular on the big screen, immediately after his TV…

You take that back! I’m expecting my 4K Steelbook of Mars Needs Moms 3: Mars Also Needs Non-Binary Parents to arrive in the mail any day now!

Marketing for Elemental focused on the fantastical setting and simplistic Romeo and Juliet love story, without ever letting on that it’s also an allegory for the immigrant experience and the ways in which outlier communities can be systemically excluded from urban planning and development.

And two uses of “confrontational” in one sentence. Being a worse writer than Barsanti isn’t easy, but this Lindert kid is off to a stumbling start!

The nigh-undisputed greatest Star Wars movie was made in under three years. Maybe, just maybe, the core problem here is a lack of storytelling vision and skill at the Lucasfilm leadership level?

The only “shocking” thing about the ending is that io9 would call it “shocking” in a desperate bait for a few more clicks. Corporation whose franchises are flailing teases mixture of franchises. Yawn.

Christopher Hitchens put it succinctly and humanely: death is, ultimately, a good thing, because it allows the next generations to inherit the earth. Wishing for any other result is a form of gluttony.

Re: Filoni’s characters, it occurs to me there may be a kind of grand irony at play here: when he was starting out, and even getting into the Rebels timeline, he was doubtless barred from doing series/stories about Luke, Leia, and Han because they were too important for mere animation. (Yes, I know that there’s a…