A nine-hour fantasy war movie.

They even considered for a while having Arwen join the Battle of Helm’s Deep due to concern over how to keep audience interest in her and Aragorn’s romance when they would be spending the whole movie separated. And fun fact: you know that shot of Eowyn looking disappointed at Legolas returning Arwen’s necklace to…

Yeah, people forget Shelob. She’s a girlboss!

The masculine perspective in LotR is pretty all-encompassing, it’s true. Peter Jackson even expanded Arwen’s role considerably, and she’s barely in it. She, Galadriel, and Éowyn are the only women with any particular agency or significance (unless you count Shelob.) It’s honestly pretty glaring given the immense scope…

The Bechdel Test was always more useful in the aggregate than as a critique of individual works, which is the opposite of how it’s usually deployed. It’s possible to make a good movie about just men, or just women, so often it’s easy enough to defend any given film. It’s only really damning when you realize that most…

It’s not a huge revelation that LOTR is a sausage fest, but with the upcoming original work for comparison the topic is at least relevant.

To be fair, I wouldn’t consider Tolkien to be anti-women for his time (especially since his 3 primary female characters are all powerful in their own right).  However Lovecraft’s racism is something unique even to his time period. 

Yes, Tolkien wrote very few female characters.
Now tell us how racist HP Lovecraft is.  I’m sure that will be a big shocker to lots of people.

You serious? Danny’s fucking terrifying. 

Shelley Duvall gives a great performance in The Shining as a person who is completely powerless and terrified of every single thing in her life, especially her husband but also her son. It's apparently been a thing for the last 42 years to dump on her, but that listless performance is perfectly suited to a person…

Done. Congratulations and welcome to the Netflix board of Directors!

Look, capitan- ok, just wait, ok- hear us out:

Whaaaaat. I finally had the chance to watch this last week and loved it - it’s sense of mood and atmosphere were fantastic.

It sucks, but I’ve grown numb to cancellations when it comes to Netflix, or Amazon, or what not. I enjoyed the season by itself. It had a nice Stranger Things vibe going on. In fact, I felt like by the end it was connected to the Stranger Things universe in some form when it comes to reality crossing, time shifts,…

Oh, come ON. It was one of the top shows on the platform for weeks. It was GOOD. What more does your horrid algorithm want, Netflix?

If we wanted to forego the fucking in BRIDGERTON, we would just watch THE GILDED AGE.

Doctor Who is the name of the show, not the person, but you know what we mean

Oh good, less sex, said fuckin’ no one ever. You had one job, Bridgerton, and that’s to doll these hard-working actors up in fantastically awesome costumes only to immediately have them ripped off so we can see some flesh-slapping action.

I’m here for this. I enjoy these “gap-fillers” within the larger story.

“And she and her husband were able to escape that NIXVM sex cult.”