I want to say Leinil Yu because of the inking style, but I think I’m wrong...

Respectfully, that’s a generalization like locker room talk or everyone does that. Plenty of actors don’t do that things like that, whether from small local plays to big film sets. And generally, the bigger the job and the more money and people involved, while there’s allowances, there’s also more incentive to make…

“I’m hysterical like a woman” but I know women aren’t like that and it’s a stereotype but this is funny. Which, maybe you get away with once if someone tells you not to do it, but likely it’s not the only joke of this type he throws around.

Oof, so it continues apace, and out of inertia, these are still the sites I regularily visit.

This kinda of sucks and is going to get flak, i think, but uhhh...I think we should get used to things costing more and in particular luxuries, which snacks are and not fixate on it this way. Not as (simply) a consequence of supply chains and not to acquiescence to corporate profit squeezing to no end, but because the…

Ultimately, I don’t like Colossal, a movie that used foreigners as a prop for their story more than anything else, but it’s a good depiction of alcoholism and toxic masculinity when it isn’t squandering it’s fantasy premise.

I’d like to read more coverage of this since it hasn’t popped up in my NYC news sources so glad you posted this, but maybe the first link for the post can point to something other than something about Shailene Woodley? She’s not even being directly anti-vax in it, since it’s about her trying to avoid talking about vacc…

It is a good paycheck, but the thing is, acting is freelance work and you’ve got to make it last. After the agent cut and taxes, it’s a chunk smaller, and you’ve got to hustle for more, and then you have to be ready for not getting work for months or a year or years. In the meantime, your auditioning, which isn’t much…

I think we need to shake the idea that shows with prestige are necessarily well written, in particular thinking a successful British show is a marker of pedigree beyond being a successful drama/melodrama most of the time. After watching Broadchurch (the British one) I was struck that while it was well-acted, the plot…

Reinvent the wheel.

Ah, I admit this show has been in my periphery as something I was interested because of the movie—I dunno about reviving Marissa, but alright...so obviously, here at the end, this is a very casual question. I see the references to other action shows and Western action plotlines, which makes complete sense, but has…

Hmm, it’s been a while, but what I like is the non-heroic tone. You’re a mercenary pinging back and forth between the highest bidder, and there’s no philosophical opining about why. Actually, probably there is and I don’t remember it, but I thought it was less cartoonish in general regard—the villains and you, so the…

I know NYC isn’t the whole state, but I’d figure I’d have encountered a pineapple milkshake in the past 20 years for it to be my state’s favorite. I don’t even know when a pineapple milkshake would trend for that to happen. I guess they’re counting smoothies?

I don’t think he’s quite doing that, but if he were, it’s not that you can’t, it’s that it’s redundant. The NFT part of a...er...NFT...is a record/certificate of authenticity if you will. If QT were selling just a physical object, you don’t need the whole blockchain recordkeeping to say “this is the one” whereas for a…

I think QT is claiming selling the NFT is exercising print rights by selling these excerpts, not necessarily that he’s printing it. So it’s as a verb and not a noun here.

I loved Night Fisher and glad to see new work from Johnson. It looks like a distinct shift into digital--unless I’m wrong about how he made the first one. I miss the bigger lines a bit.

They’re fun, so I mean this in the gentlest way possible: They kind of look like upholstery?

I watched it soley for Jet Li and got a few friends to go at the time who’d never seen him in anything. General reaction was: Why’d the Chinese guy lose?

You’re right, and I haven’t seen it yet...maybe I’m not giving them enough credit for all the pile into this bet, and it feels smaller because of the times—pandemic constraints, Marvel fatigue, a generally depressed roll-out. I think the Eternals aren’t even Guardians of the Galaxy level characters (Neil Gaiman’s…

They all tend to be pop of some sort, but “idol” is more of a management/development model than a genre, and maybe a focus on generally young fans. Performers trained, heavily managed, restricted or directed by whoever owns their contracts/lives. Like stars in the old movie studio systems or Disney contract players now…