The great thing about the Avatar comics is that they continue the story of ATLA.

The bad thing about the comics is that... uh... they suck. They’re really awful. I remember reading that Azula “redemption” story and my biggest issue was understanding what was happening from panel to panel, as though they were made by…

“At CinemaCon 2019, Toy Story 4 producer Jonas Rivera came out and explained that, yes, Toy Story 3 has a great ending, but it’s an ending to Andy’s arc.”

... no. No, it’s not.

This movie may well be amazing, I hope it is given that Pixar has been in a slump since... woof. Nine years? Maybe just four, depending on how…

I suppose that’s a fair point - it’s a million years since I watched it on a bus while on a six-hour long trip to a drama festival showcase where I won a lighting award (which gives you my entire teenaged experience in a sentence), but I suppose I continue to think fo Juno as the Ur-Quirky movie because that’s largely…

I like the ending scene with the joke, and I liked that in consequence Barbara got to become the awesome Oracle (and I will curse DC forever for scrapping her because the comics world was crying out for another able-bodied female superhero in a cat suit), but the comic itself? Yikes. 1988 is when Moore was at his…

I think the moment LEGO Batman stops working for me is when it decides that the Batman/Joker relationship isn’t enough to carry t he movie, and that what really needs to happen is that Batman needs to learn a lesson about found family and working with others.

And while Batman to me is at its best when Bruce is the head…

I went to see it with my mum, and at some point around the 45 minute mark without any sort of consultation we started to laugh at the movie.

Because it’s goofy. It’s silly. It’s very, very silly.

You know that point in a Fast and Furious movie when you realize that Vin Diesel believes in the Hallmark Card dialogue about…

I miss Batman oreos. They were from the early 90s and had yellow icing. I swear I did not make this up but can’t find proof of their existence.

I think Ledger’s gives an incredible performance in an obnoxious and repugnant movie, and I’d be hard-pressed to call his Joker one that anyone should emulate as it is as toxic as the film property it attached to.

And with all that being said it’s a million times better than Nicholson’s. The comment below me saying “He…

Hi, I come from the future to tell you that in the dystopian year of 2019 people are openly, vilely racist all the time in the highest offices in America, and that episodes seem more relevant now than they did in 2012.

I mean that’s a slippery slope.

Primates can be trained to read.

Boy that header image really is... competent. That sure is competent art. Art that was drawn by someone who can draw things recognizably as things, that’s for sure.

Boy howdy. That sure is a thing you can say about it. It sure does... exist.

I really liked Kevin Smith’s relaunch of Green Arrow.

And literally nothing else he’s ever done.

I haven’t touched his Arrow book since I was a teen so I may even not like that anymore.

Anyways, in summation, Kevin Smith is just some guy, you know?

People get really, really angry when you critique Laika’s storytelling, and I don’t get it. Laika has some of the most talented artists in the world - every frame of Kubo represented not only hours of labour but skill and craft and time and passion.

So why shouldn’t the script be treated to the same standard? Why are…

This feels like the kind of movie i’d hate but struggle to articulate why without coming off like a cynical asshole.

But have you seen my avatar? I’m down with light and whimsical works - but live action works so often seem to fail at getting it right. The only way I can think of descrbing it is “trying too hard.” Juno…

Queen of Mars from Olympus Mons to Tarsus!

Why the fuck are we still doing this? Why are we still treating these Serious Adult Works seriously? The Joker isn’t mentally ill - I speak on behalf of mental illness sufferers everywhere whenI say he’s crazy. He’s a guy who dresses as a clown to taunt another guy who fights crime dressed as a bat.

He is not grounded…

Tell them I’m glad that anything I wrote makes any sense and that if they feel like reading my ramblings makes them “feel smarter” they should re-valuate themselves s someone who is pretty damn smart to begin with.

So I approached Ron and said to him - “Ron, what if we made a Star Wars movie, but put in even less effort than we did on Rogue One?” - and he just laughed, not thinking it was humanly possible. So we went with Lord and Miller, but as we started to get back the dailies we detected signs of effort, which just didn’t…

I studied the history of the early church in university, and even by the second century the rich new convert to the faith were finding ways to say “well actually” about all the things Jesus said weren’t literal.

And this in an era when the words of Jesus had been recorded in the daily Greek used by everybody (except,…

Argh! “This thing I disagree with is lengthy.” I have been utterly bested in the war of ideas by this insightful rebuttal of the things I said! It’s all going dark. Kiss me, Hardy.