It’s important to remember that the Bechdel test is a test for judging a film’s feminist qualities, not the test, and that a failure of the Bechdel test does not a misogynistic movie make.

What characters were missing? You referenced them in your Dislikes but not in the bodytext?

Also “ The worlds you visit effortlessly blend photorealistic cliffs and deserts with digital Lego bricks” is disappointing: the LEGO movies prove that you can have all-LEGO worlds and have it look great, an for no clear reason…

I am one of those weird people whose introduction to the series was the oft-reviled monkey Island 4, but I came in with no expectations and loved it, even though I never managed to beat it. Since then I have beaten the first two and played some of three, and while I own the telltale adaptations I never got around to…

I hope Garret makes it back to his gravy planet safely. Farewell, sweet prince of golf.

Given the time zone differences I am often up far earlier than I’d like to be to watch races, and bizarrely I find the F1 commentary really soothing and have been know to doze off even during races that aren’t in Monaco.

I know very little about cars (not even medically cleared to drive one), I don’t understand a damn thing when they talk about oversteer or understeering, but I don’t need to know a damn thing to hate Max Verstappen’s pouty face and root for him to fail while make the car go vroom around the funny-shaped line.

“a fresh start, like getting into Evangelion with the Rebuild movies”

As someone who, in the last year, watch EVA for the first time—the series and then the films—the last Rebuild flick is incomprehensible without having seen the show as its a movie almost entirely about EV-the-series.

The third film is, of course, incom…

I don’t know - I only really love videos that feature beloved long-running character Hat-Dan, the Dan with a Hat.

Which I think speaks to the heart of my problem about lenses: it is always messier than a simple linguistic panacea can easily cure.

I think the moment where Mirabel meets with her grandmother by the side of the river is really powerful and moving—I really don’t want to invalidate your feelings on the matter or pretend that there isn’t strength in the moment. My issue comes more how that scene is not strongly layered into previously ninety-odd…

There was a good... Atlantic article, I think, talking about the word a year or so back and that outside a pretty narrow demographic group, that word had no traction at all.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t people who would genuinely prefer to have the term used, and I’d try to respect their wishes, my problem primarily…

But it didn’t say them well, and its stated themes don’t well-match the script as presented. Encanto is a second-draft movie—there’s a great, coherent third draft of that script just begging to be written.

I was frustrated that I didn’t love Turning Red when I really wanted to, but it is unquestionably a better film on just about every level, especially animation.

Yeah that was the worst of it—it remind me of when Rich Crazy Asians came out and the default progressive line was how important this movie was for Asians and what meaning Asian representation was, and then everybody in Asia hated it or pointed out how racially biased it was in favour of light-skinned Asians and in no…

It was one final straw in well-over a decade of non-stop abuse that only ever happens to female creators who are always always always not only held to a higher standard than men, but are treated far more harshly than men.

Ellis fans loved her so much that they ripped her to shreds and hounded her off the internet when she didn’t live up to their progressive ideals and said insensitive, racists things like... checks notes... American corporation Disney’s Raya the Last Dragon was mediocre.

More specifically, Miller was too toxic about fifteen years ago. These days he’s just too damn weird.

To be clear: I don’t like any of his work and hold his work in the 80s as incredibly influential for subsequent decades of garbage comics and garbage movies based on truly garbage ideology that we’re all still suffering…

Encanto is a by-the-numbers animated flick that looks pretty and takes zero risks. I’d have much rather the award went to Mitchells, a film I didn’t like but did some interesting things that Encanto never bothered to attempt.

I’d have loved Luca to win, since that film was both gorgeous and really resonated with me,…

Not oil per se, but I am sure whatever venture capitalists who currently own the AV Club are pretty greasy.

But that would require going back and suffering through the first season of Picard, which I abandoned pretty early because I liked neither its elaborately violent fight scenes nor its belief that making the Federation Super Racist and Isolaionist now is mature, grown-up storytelling. (See again every previous comment…