So many corporate synergies!

Wasp asks Spidey how he stays so upbeat, which he misreads as asking how he watches so many movies. She corrects his impression...

I appreciate this thoughtful discussion of voice work and translation, and would like to pipe in to say/amplify the fact that while recognizing the fact that that it’s hard work and there’s subtleties that are subjective, these sorts of differences are best read as intentional and as part of the art direction. I hope…

Wells’s takedown of Fieri’s restaurant was always more of branding exercise (for Wells) via pettiness than about Fieri at all. The need to police the popularity of people is an American impulse—maybe a universal one, though the food world seems to have a lot of out of touch virtue signaling. I remember the hate Emeril…

Kinja has degraded and I’m surprised anyone finds any reply these days!

For games, sure, school terms have homework, but they also have word of mouth excitement, and everyone being home means multiplayer games have a more stationary audience. The more time in the summer might not translate to more regular time. Mostly though, I think it’s the proximity to gift giving season that a late in…

I haven’t watched Step Up—I imagine it’s fun but light and looks like not my thing. But I sign up to film festival stuff these days and once I’ve paid for an all access ticket, I kind of watch everything (I don’t have to, but I do). So in the New York Asian Film Festival this year was The Way We Keep Dancing, a…

Or Crank.

Hmm. If you get confused about whether you’re rich or poor, you’re rich.

Apparently Trebek himself named Laura Coates and Alex Faust as possibilities--and it’s super weird/derelict of them to not have tried either of them out.

I played through four and Gat of Hell wore me out. Which is to say while I enjoyed the ride until I didn’t, I don’t think “ridiculousness” as a creative goal was going to lead to better games anymore. I guess they could hit the mark and satisfy lots of fans—even me, I’d probably return, the most worn down thing was…

Hmm, I have a strong preference for literal translations, and I suppose context would tell, but maybe “police woman” would be a subtle insult, and the translation to girl is meant to emphasize that for a foreign audience? Is describing her sex and not just as police (I don’t know Japanese) subtle shade already?

I know the context is the day when “dark foreshadowing of what’s to come” is mentioned, but right now I can’t help but think of the wars that followed, the politics that led there—and the politics that came before. For a six part series, does it give time to that?

Huh. Didn’t expect Rosario Dawson to be in it. It’s not just me thinking that is it?

I’ll give them slightly more credit in that the filmmakers they’re pursuing and attracting now are have talent and vision that when it meshes (James Gunn, Taika Waititi) it can elevate the pre-fab construction, and I appreciate it even when it doesn’t work (Captain Marvel for me). I’m not familiar enough to Cretton to…

I’m a MCU fan and Asian American and those are things that have made me excited to see this, but I will watch Tony Leung coast in anything anytime. (Okay, I’m not watching Tokyo Raiders again.)

Then I would say that all those kinds of questions are within the range of sports journalism, and the answer can always be “no, I’m not answering that”—but in the main, respectful and legimate questions aren’t always comfortable, and I do think they can be asked. I don’t want this to sound like I condone churlish or…

So when a girlfriend of Alexander Zverev, a top ten player, accuses him of abuse including strangling her, the sports reporters who cover the tournaments he appears in shouldn’t ask him about it?

I wasn’t disappointed with Elysium probably because I never rated District 9 that highly—some of that may be me in that I had a hard time with an abortion joke burning a shed full of eggs and thinking that no one would care about burning a shed full of sentient beings. Maybe I’m underestimating racism there though. But…

That’s the set up for the Suicide Squad video game, right? Maybe they didn’t want to almost overlap like that, even if the takes are different universes.