The thing is, inability to direct lightsaber fights aside, Abrams is a really good director. The entire reason why TFA is as good as it is is because he directs the fucking hell out of that film, getting excellent performances out of the entire cast, staging some great fight scenes, keeping the pace up wonderfully,…

Abrams seems like a decent enough guy as a person, but as someone who dearly loves both Star Trek and Star Wars as two of my foundational, “core” fandoms that led to practically all the other geeky passions I enjoy, I very much wish he’d had nothing to do with them. He’s responsible for my least-favorite movies in…

Everyone is pointing fingers at Disney, but Universal Orlando and Universal Hollywood are both open, Orlando as of last week and Hollywood as today, way before either of Disney’s U.S. resorts. Yes, shopping is open at WDW, but the parks are still closed. Fair’s fair, let’s give Universal a little crap, too.

reading roger ebert reviews is one of the main reasons i got into movies! enjoy the rabbit hole, friend.

Scent of a Woman marked the point where Al Pacino stopped being an actor and started doing a full-time Al Pacino impression.

The only explanation for why the last 4 years have been the longest 4 years ever and why people who did horrible things are still openly doing them is that we are in a timeloop.

You can never fail internet by posting Starship Troopers screencaps. Captioning is worth a letter grade, tops. :)

Clancy Brown taught that life lesson. Ironside taught others, like, “if your city gets vaporized in atomic fire...fair. Stop complaining.”

That is technically Clancy Brown. However, Clancy Brown was having almost as much fun in Starship Troopers as Michael Ironside, so I take your point.

the main villain

I do have to admit that there is a special place in my heart for great actors who have 1) realized that this is that kind of movie, 2) that this gives them the freedom to give exactly that kind of performance, and through their performance 3) immediately elevate something bad into a form of surreal high art.

Soldier is great B-movie fare, and has the greatest line delivery in film history: “What are you going to do?” “I’m going to kill them all, sir.”

The “how many more of those ships are there?” question is a huge part of the plot in Prometheus. I just wish Covenant had continued pulling on that string more than it did.

Rebels is surprisingly great. It starts off a little rocky, but you get some reallygood Leia and Ahsoka stuff, some great Hondo moments (“I have done this many times!”), the Kanan/Hera stuff is good at the end, some fantastic Maul moments, and this:

How the bright hell any Xer could forget about this movie is beyond me.

In general, she’s one of those actors that embetters almost anything she’s in.

a “sequel” inspired by the Little Mermaid fairytale

You know what? That’s fair. I’ve been seeing a lot of infuriating anti-Biden stuff from certain folks out there on the net lately, and I think I directed some of that anger here unfairly. Biden is being an ass.

Who is even thinking about Bernie or Warren as a nominee at this point? I’m well aware that he’s going to be the nominee, and it’s strange that literally any observation of Biden being less-than-perfect turns into someone in the comments accusing me or Jezebel at large of being deluded about the reality we find…

I'm a good white person, and I'll be honest. I don't know what to do with myself, either.