I think everybody in that story sounds a bit awful. McCammond seems competent, but is definitely coasting on youth and attractiveness in an industry that prizes telegenic qualities over experience. The boyfriend was obviously out of line for threatening a journalist. I understand office romances happen but I’m very…

It’s odd that Johnson has never quite achieved movie superstardom but he has number of standout roles and cult gems in his film career. I like A Boy and His Dog and The Hot Spot.

Full disclosure: my real last name could be — and was —easily twisted into something vulgar, so you have my sympathies.

“As a result of my actions I am taking time away from the band to examine my blindspots.

But a man is so much more than the sum of his “sheeeeeeeeeits,”

I didn’t find Natasha humorless in the first Avengers film as much as she was the perfect spy: a consummate liar and actor who can manipulate anyone and even tricked a trickster god; a ruthless trained killer who can take out a roomful of bad guys even when she is tied to a chair. She was always in control of the…

Sigh. Got no time for this stupid conversation. Have fun storming the Congress.

A human man talked to an animated skunk about consent because of a legal issue with a cat. Absorb that for a moment.

Hollywood is not the most leftist place on earth, the surface patina of tolerance and inclusion the industry presents through its extensive publicity apparatus for business purposes (although of course there are people who are sincerely tolerant and inclusive) only meets the most superficial definition of leftism. And…

The 1972 film adaptation of the novel Sounder broke my heart as I kid, but I still cry now because of the way the relationship of between the father and son in that film brought me closer with my own father, who has since passed away. We watched the movie on tv together, and as I rose to go to bed when it was over, my…

I think there is significant difference between representing segments of the population that Hollywood has acknowledged it has discriminated against as recently as *checks notes* right up to now, and throwing in white cameos that are sops to (perceived) audience prejudice.

Lol, the first time I saw Black Widow was in that Daredevil run, where Natasha and Matt were living together in San Francisco. Gene Colan’s visual interpretation of Natasha is still my favorite.

Certainly a lot of Murphy’s choices can be ascribed to ego, but there is also a lot of racial consciousness (and awareness of racism) in his choice to play a character like Akeem in Coming to America. This was a era, after all, when black actors, even ones as successful as Murphy, were pigeon holed in stereotypical…

I’m not being unfair to Anderson, whom I noted is both a talented comic and actor. But Arsenio Hall himself said the studio required they hire a white actor. Did the studio believe Anderson specifically would bring in a larger white audience? No, that is a slight exaggeration on my part to highlight the absurdity of…

Wanda’s most memorable stories in comics were, almost all, shitty for her as a character.

At the behest of the studio that they add a white comic to the movie. It’s even dumber imo if the studio felt the intent, rather than simply the letter of their request had been fulfilled. As for Eddie and Arsenio, they picked a guy whose comedy they probably respected, but also someone who would not be clamoring for…

Or as he is known at the unemployment office, “Williams, Bohner”.

*I wish Agatha’s motivations were more complex than simply craving power for power’s sake

One can never underestimate how much history was influenced by the fact that a lot of people were high and/or drunk at the time.

And cocaine.