Defending the studio’s legal position aggressively is standard. Personally disparaging high value talent who have been loyal team players for well over a decade in the process is unusual. Really tough negotiations are normal, publicly burning relationships isn’t. Even when the negotiations are ugly, like during the…

Dude looks like he got bit by a radioactive Jeffrey Tambor.

Athletes do have an obligation to at least try if they are part of a team.

He’s really good in The Killing, the tv version of Hanna, For All Mankind and other work. Given a good script and director he can be excelllent. But he’s a team player, who will work within a director’s vision even if the vision is muddled, boring or outright bad. Some actors can always elevate the material — Viola…

In Hobbes and Shaw, it’s almost implied that his daughter was born through some sort of immaculate conception

I’m sure Ridley Scott had a lot of influence on the shape of the trailer, but no marketing department for a major studio is likely to insert ambiguity about rape. 

We all understand that this guy didn’t really kill his parents because they interrupted his anime, right? That “interrupting his anime” is a proxy for his overall resentment and animosity about his life situation.

Lil Nas X lives for controversy

Can we find some more nuanced way of discussing this? Can we acknowledge that it is important and right for Biles to look after her mental and physical health, while also acknowledging that what happened to day was not, in fact, “worth celebrating?”

Baluchi is just your classic foolhardy dream-big American eccentric. Not enough sex,violence, drugs or wild animals where they don’t belong to be a true Florida Man story.

Deadpool and Howard the Duck are similar in approach, but not result. Both are an amalgam of the pop culture and humor of their respective ‘70s and late ‘90s/early 2000s eras. Howard leans into the political and social satire of the ‘70’s — things like Fritz the Cat, National Lampoon magazine, Monty Python movies and…

I hope the movie has the time to explain why strange women lying in ponds and distributing sword is not the basis for a system of government.

Or one of my favorite recent(ish) comics, the 2012 Prophet revival. It is practically un-filmable and aggressively anti-commercial.

In a country where one can get used panties from vending machines, I don’t think condoms would be that difficult to find.

I’ve always liked Strong’s work, but with this show it really clicked for me how subtle and clever her voice acting is.

I don’t think the shows are B- List as much as I think that the MCU believes it has provide differentiation points between the movies and the shows so that shelling out $15 to $30 for single Marvel movie seems reasonable even though viewers can watch 18 episodes of new shows that also comes with an entire streaming…

What Gunn is saying is not controversial. All entertainment trends, in almost any medium, become victims of their own success as economic imperatives drives makers to repeat the formula over and over again until there is a glut and the boom cycle goes into bust. Even the studios understand that this is inevitable and…

Persepolis has the power of awakening politics.

I read “a woman?/s” as “ a woman’s ass” and it didn’t change the gist of your statement at all.

unless he was adopted, which honestly would have been a neat wrinkle in his character